AI API pricing by vendor

Every model a vendor ships, with the rate it actually bills at. Use this when you are choosing inside one ecosystem; use the full price index when you are comparing across them.

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Every vendor side by side

Choosing inside one ecosystem is a different problem from choosing across them. The table below is the across-them view: it answers "how deep does this vendor's catalogue go, where is its price floor, and how aggressively does it price output". The three questions that decide whether a vendor is worth a closer look.

"Billable models" is the count after removing legacy generations, non-chat variants and resold entries, the set you can actually put side by side. The last column counts models carrying a published vendor list rate we could verify; the rest are shown at face value with no comparison implied.

The median output-to-input multiple is the column people skip and then get surprised by. A vendor whose floor looks attractive on input can charge four or five times that on output, which matters more the more text your workload generates. Across the 226 models in our cleaned catalogue the median is 4.0× and the widest is 12.0×, so the spread between vendors on this one dimension is larger than the spread on headline input rates.

Why the vendor pages exist

A vendor's own pricing page is usually a marketing summary It shows the flagship model and leaves out the legacy tiers still running in production, the regional variants, and the output multiples that dominate real bills. These pages list the full billable catalogue instead, because that is the only way to tell whether the tier you picked is the tier you meant to pick.

Rates are synced from the gateway's pricing endpoint and verified against vendor documentation where a stable published source exists. Where we could not verify, we say so on the row rather than inventing a comparison.

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