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AI API pricing, explained

How each provider actually prices its models, what caching and batch discounts change, and how to estimate a bill before you build. Every price referenced links back to the live dataset.

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How much does the Claude API cost?

Claude API pricing explained: how Anthropic prices Haiku, Sonnet and Opus tiers, what cached and batch tokens change, and how to estimate a real bill.

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LLM pricing comparison, 2026

Every major LLM API's current pricing side by side — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek and more — in a live table instead of a screenshot.

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Cheapest LLM API for production workloads

A dataset-ranked view of the lowest-cost current LLM APIs by input and output rate, and what you give up to get the cheapest per-token price.

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Gemini API pricing explained

How Google prices the Gemini API across Flash and Pro tiers, what context caching does to the input rate, and where Gemini undercuts the rest of the market.

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How much does the OpenAI API cost?

OpenAI API pricing explained: GPT-5 tiers, the o-series reasoning models, embeddings, and how cached input and batch pricing change the math.

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Batch API discounts: when to use them

How batch pricing works across LLM providers, the discount you actually get, and which workloads are (and aren't) a good fit for asynchronous processing.

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Prompt caching cost savings, explained

How prompt/context caching works across major LLM APIs, which providers support it, and how to structure requests to actually get the discount.

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How to estimate LLM costs before you build

A step-by-step method for estimating what an LLM feature will cost in production, before you've written the code or picked a final model.

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Token counting explained: why your bill surprised you

What a token actually is, why text-to-token ratios vary by language and content type, and how to count tokens accurately before you get billed for them.

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Why AI API prices keep changing

Why LLM API pricing shifts more often than most infrastructure costs, what usually drives a change, and how to track it instead of getting caught by it.

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