How often is the pricing data updated?

The catalog refreshes hourly. Each row in the table shows the exact "last verified" timestamp alongside a link to the provider source it was read from, so you can confirm a price yourself rather than trusting a stale snapshot.

Do I need an account to compare prices?

No. Browsing, filtering, reading the chart, copying share links, and using the ROI calculator are all account-free.

What does "quality tier" mean on the chart and table?

It's a rough capability class — frontier, balanced, or budget — used to group models with similar strengths, not a numeric benchmark score. Use it to avoid comparing a narrow classifier against a frontier reasoning model as if they were substitutes.

Why do some models show no current price?

When a provider changes a rate by more than a review threshold, the new price is held for manual confirmation instead of being published automatically, so a model can briefly show no current price rather than an unverified one.

Is the price shown here what I'll actually be billed?

Treat it as an informational estimate, not an invoice. Provider pricing pages are the source of truth — this table exists to help you compare quickly, not to replace checking directly before you commit spend.

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Head-to-head comparisons

GPT vs Claude pricing

How OpenAI and Anthropic API pricing compares at a moderate production workload, tier for tier.

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ChatGPT Plus vs Claude Pro

A flat monthly seat price is only half the comparison — here is the other half.

Open ChatGPT Plus vs Claude Pro

Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

Seat pricing for a 12-developer team, plus what the price alone won't tell you about either tool.

Open Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

OpenAI vs Anthropic API pricing at scale

The GPT vs Claude comparison changes shape once volume and discount eligibility enter the picture.

Open OpenAI vs Anthropic API pricing at scale

Gemini vs Claude pricing

Google and Anthropic API pricing, tier for tier, at a moderate production workload.

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Mistral vs OpenAI pricing

For teams shopping primarily on price, here is what the gap actually looks like at balanced and budget tiers.

Open Mistral vs OpenAI pricing

DeepSeek vs OpenAI pricing

DeepSeek built its reputation on being dramatically cheaper than the US labs — here is the actual multiple, tier for tier.

Open DeepSeek vs OpenAI pricing

DeepSeek vs Claude pricing

DeepSeek's reasoning tier against Claude, plus the balanced-tier gap most buyers actually ask about.

Open DeepSeek vs Claude pricing

Grok vs GPT pricing

xAI's frontier and balanced tiers against OpenAI's, at a moderate production workload.

Open Grok vs GPT pricing

Windsurf vs Cursor

Two agentic-editor rivals, priced at a 12-developer team size — plus Windsurf's premium tier most comparisons skip.

Open Windsurf vs Cursor

JetBrains AI vs Copilot

JetBrains' entry tier undercuts Copilot by half — here is what that gap and the top tier actually look like at team size.

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Best & cheapest picks

Cheapest LLM API for coding

Budget and fast-tier coding-capable models, ranked by live monthly cost — and what you give up to get there.

Open Cheapest LLM API for coding

Best value LLM for chat

Balanced-tier models at a realistic heavy-chat workload, ranked on cost with quality tier shown alongside.

Open Best value LLM for chat

Cheapest LLM API for high volume

Budget-tier models ranked at 250M tokens a month, with committed-use and volume discounts applied where offered.

Open Cheapest LLM API for high volume

Best AI coding assistant for teams

Six coding-assistant subscriptions priced at a 12-developer team size, ranked by monthly seat cost.

Open Best AI coding assistant for teams

Cheapest open-model inference API

The same open-weight models, hosted by different providers — sometimes tied, sometimes 4x apart.

Open Cheapest open-model inference API

Frontier LLM pricing compared

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI's top-tier models, ranked by live monthly cost at the same workload.

Open Frontier LLM pricing compared

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