AI API Pricing Reference

Compare pricing, availability and capabilities across leading AI models and providers. Updated weekly.

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Based on published API pricing. Actual costs may vary.

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FAQ

Our calculator uses published API pricing from each provider, updated regularly. Results are estimates based on token counts — actual costs may vary slightly depending on your specific usage patterns, but they're typically within 5-10% of your real bill.

APIpulse supports 95 models across 11 providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, Meta (via Together.ai), Moonshot, xAI, and AI21. We cover both premium models (GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro) and budget options (GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, DeepSeek V4 Flash).

The biggest savings come from using the right model for each task — route simple requests to budget models like GPT-4o mini and reserve premium models for complex reasoning. Other strategies include prompt optimization, response caching, batch processing, and setting token limits. Our calculator helps you model these scenarios.

Yes — the cost calculator, provider comparison table, and all tools and blog content are completely free. No signup, no credit card required.

We track published pricing pages from each provider and update the dataset weekly. Each model entry shows a "verified" date so you can see how current the data is.