LLM API Providers pricing across 32 tracked products: entry-tier median $0.10, top-tier median $12. Cheapest: Anyscale. Most premium: OpenAI API. Updated October 2026.
LLM API Providers pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; quote-only products are listed but left out of the medians.
Entry-tier median is $0.10, top-tier median $12 (products with published prices only).
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.07 | $3.00 | $75 | month |
| Anyscale | $0 | $2.48 | $4.96 | month |
| Baidu ERNIE API | $0.10 | $1.00 | $10 | month |
| Cerebras Inference API | $0.10 | $1.00 | $6.00 | month |
| Claude API | $0.10 | $5.00 | $50 | month |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0 | $3.33 | $6.67 | month |
| Codestral API | $0.30 | $0.60 | $0.90 | month |
| Cohere API | $0 | $7.50 | $15 | month |
| DeepInfra | $0.00 | $41 | $82 | month |
| DeepSeek | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Fireworks AI | $0.01 | $6.00 | $12 | month |
| Google Gemini API | $0 | $2.25 | $18 | month |
| GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra & Luna) | $0.20 | $4.00 | $30 | month |
| Groq | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Kimi K3 | $0.30 | $3.00 | $15 | month |
| Lepton AI | $0.07 | $0.50 | $4.00 | month |
| MiniMax API | $0.30 | $2.55 | $4.80 | month |
| Mistral AI API | $0.10 | $0.50 | $7.50 | month |
| Moonshot Kimi API | $0.15 | $2.00 | $10 | month |
| NVIDIA NIM | $0.10 | $1.50 | $10 | month |
| OctoAI | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| OpenAI API | $0.10 | $4.75 | $180 | month |
| OpenRouter | $0 | $2.00 | $15 | month |
| Perplexity API | $1.00 | $8.00 | $15 | month |
| Predibase | $0.50 | $2.00 | $8.00 | month |
| Qwen API (Alibaba) | $0.05 | $1.00 | $20 | month |
| SambaNova Cloud | $0 | $0.70 | $4.50 | month |
| Together AI | $0.03 | $7.51 | $15 | month |
| Vercel AI SDK | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| xAI Grok API | $1.00 | $2.50 | $12 | month |
| Z.ai GLM API | $0 | $2.20 | $4.40 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier. Custom means the vendor publishes no list price (quote only); those rows are left out of the medians.
Across 32 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0.10 and the top-tier median is $12. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
Anyscale has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
OpenAI API has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.