| Provider | Category | Best For | From | OAI API | |
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OpenAI Popular
openai.com/pricing
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Model API | General purpose production apps | $0.003–0.015 GPT-4o |
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Anthropic Popular
www.anthropic.com/pricing
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Model API | Long-context analysis, agents, research writing | $0.003–0.015 Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
— | Visit → |
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Together AI
www.together.ai/pricing
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Serverless open models | Cost-sensitive open-source model inference | $0.0002–0.0009 Meta Llama 3 |
✓ | Visit → |
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Groq
groq.com/pricing
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Ultra-fast inference | Very low latency chat and real-time UX | $0.00035–0.00140 Llama 3 |
✓ | Visit → |
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Cohere
cohere.com/pricing
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Enterprise API | Enterprise RAG, retrieval, embeddings | $0.003–0.015 Command R+ |
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Replicate
replicate.com/pricing
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Model marketplace | Trying many open models quickly | $0.00035–0.015 Pay-per-run |
— | Visit → |
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AWS Bedrock
aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing
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Cloud platform | AWS-integrated enterprise workloads | $0.00005–0.02 On-demand |
— | Visit → |
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Google Vertex AI
cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing
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Cloud platform | Gemini/GCP-integrated workloads | $0.00025–0.0005 Gemini Pro |
— | Visit → |
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Hugging Face
huggingface.co/pricing
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Open model platform | Custom models, endpoints, open ML ecosystem | Free + Paid Inference API |
— | Visit → |
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Mistral AI
mistral.ai/technology
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Model API | European AI stack and efficient model APIs | $0.00014–0.00042 Mistral Small |
✓ | Visit → |
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