#API Pricing

Resellers offer Claude and GPT access at a fraction of list price. What you may actually get, what the vendors' terms say and a checklist before you buy.

API price changes from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and xAI, July to September 2026: launches, cuts, a rise and promotions per million tokens, dated.

Cloudflare AI Search is now generally available. How it compares with Google Agent Search, Bedrock Knowledge Bases and OpenAI file search on price and limits.

Cloudflare added a Web Search API to AI Gateway on October 2. How it compares with search tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others on price and limits.

Gemini 4 Argon launches at $2/$10 per million tokens, rising to $4/$20 later. Who can use it now, what Google's benchmarks show and how to prepare.

GPT-6.1 Sol approaches Astra on key agent tasks at $2/$10 per million tokens. Compare pricing, cache costs, benchmark limits and the case for switching.

Four publishers now list decision models on OpenRouter that return probabilities for typed questions, not prose, at free to $0.05 per million input tokens.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 price, scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and adds cyber fallbacks. What the 30% saving is measured on.

Fireworks tuned Kimi K3 into Ember-1 and says it matches K3 with 35 to 50% shorter reasoning at the same price. The rows it loses, and the preview caveat.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is generally available with voice cloning from a 30-second sample. The promotional price ends December 31 and doubles on January 1, 2027.

Artificial Analysis ran GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on the same tests. Sol is cheaper up to a point; Opus 5.5 at its default outscores Sol at max.

GPT-6 Sol costs $2/$10 and Luna $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens, half GPT-5.6's price. What OpenAI's own charts show about scores and effort.

Opus 5.5 outscores Fable 5.1 on every coding benchmark Anthropic published, at 40% of the token price. When Fable 5.1 still earns its place.

Grok 4.7 lists at under a third of Opus 5.5's output price, yet costs twice as much per task in Artificial Analysis tests. Where Muse Spark 1.3 fits.

Claude Opus 5.5 lists at 40% of GPT-6 Astra's price with no long-context surcharge. Where each leads, and where the vendors' benchmarks disagree.

Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million tokens, defaults to medium effort and breaks four Opus 5 integrations. What the 40% saving assumes.

xAI released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026 at Grok 4.6's $2/$6 list price. The vendor-run benchmark table, the route price you are billed, three questions.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash adds vision and lower prices. Compare 19 official benchmarks, agent frameworks and API costs; V4 Pro now continues past September 14.

Compare Astra and Fable 5.1 pricing, cache costs, context limits and access rules, then choose a model for coding, document work or long agent runs.

ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds new creative controls and two API models. Compare Flare and Sunburst, verified token prices, and a practical rollout plan.

GLM-5.3's direct token-metered API went live on August 18. Thinking can no longer be disabled, and the effort tiers are low, high and max only.

DeepSeek's changelog now carries a GA entry for V4-Pro across app, web, and API, MIT-licensed 0813 weights on Hugging Face, and pricing changing August 16.

On August 12, DeepSeek's pricing page listed V4-Pro-0813 with no changelog entry and a homepage saying nothing had changed. GA was announced a day later.

xAI's Grok 4.6 keeps Grok 4.5's headline rates, but the $2/$6 tier only holds below a 200K-token prompt: cross it and the whole request reprices.

Where should you buy GLM-5.2 tokens? Z.ai lists $1.40 in / $4.40 out per Mtok, but 20+ hosts undercut it. A July 2026 price and output-cap comparison guide.