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LLM Pricing & Models

Live cross-provider API pricing and model routing — every price dated and sourced, plus head-to-head model comparisons.

• Cheapest LLM API (July 2026): The Floor-Tier Table, Cost Per 1,000 Requests, and When Cheap Gets Expensive The cheapest LLM API, verified July 2026: GPT-5-nano, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and Gemini Flash-Lite priced per 1,000 real requests, plus when cheap turns expensive.
• Gemini API Pricing (July 2026): The Tier Ladder, the 200K Surcharge, and the Cache Fee Nobody Reads Gemini API pricing verified July 2026: 3.1 Pro $2/$12, Flash $0.30/$2.50 per 1M tokens, the >200K surcharge, 50% batch cut, and per-hour cache storage.
• DeepSeek vs ChatGPT (July 2026): The Price Chasm, the China Problem, and the Middle Path DeepSeek near-matches GPT on SWE-bench at a tenth of the price, verified July 2026. Where the discount is real, where China-hosted data blocks it, and the US-hosted middle path.
• Grok vs ChatGPT (July 2026): Real-Time X Data and a $6 Output Rate vs the Mature Ecosystem Grok wins live X data and flagship API price ($2/$6 vs $5/$30 per 1M tokens); ChatGPT wins coding, writing, and ecosystem. Verified July 2026, task by task.
• Gemini vs ChatGPT (2026): Pick by Task, Priced on Verified July 2026 Rates Gemini wins long-context research and multimodal; ChatGPT wins writing and coding. Gemini's flagship API is 2.5x cheaper. Prices verified July 2026.
• OpenAI API Pricing (July 2026): Live Per-Token Rates, Real Workload Costs, and Cheaper Swaps Live OpenAI API pricing from the July 10, 2026 OpenRouter snapshot: per-token rates, cost on three real workloads, and cheaper same-job swaps.
• LLM API Pricing Compared (July 2026): Live Cross-Provider Cost Per Token Live LLM price comparison, verified July 10, 2026 from OpenRouter data: flagship, workhorse, and budget models across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and DeepSeek, with cost-per-workload math and a ch
• Claude vs ChatGPT (2026): The Task-by-Task Verdict on Verified Live Pricing Claude wins writing and code reasoning; ChatGPT wins images, voice, and web research. Flagship APIs price within 10%. The real deal-breaker is Claude's usage caps. Verified July 2026.
• Claude API Pricing (2026): Live Cost Per Token for Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku Claude API pricing, verified July 10, 2026 from live OpenRouter data: Haiku 4.5 $1/$5, Sonnet 5 $2/$10, Opus 4.8 $5/$25 per million tokens, plus real-workload cost math.
• Best LLM for Coding (July 2026): Verified Prices, Benchmark Reality, and Which Model Wins Each Job Live OpenRouter prices (verified July 10, 2026) joined to real coding benchmarks. Which model wins for agents, autocomplete, budget, and self-hosting, with honest limits.