Cheapest LLM API in 2026: Lowest Cost per Token, Ranked
The cheapest LLM APIs in 2026 ranked by real per-token cost — DeepSeek, MiniMax, Gemini Flash-Lite and more — plus the caching and routing tricks that beat sticker price.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro API Pricing [2026]: Cost, Tiers & How to Access
Gemini 2.5 Pro API pricing in 2026 — $1.25/$10 per million tokens, the 200K context cliff, batch and caching discounts, and how it compares to newer Gemini models.
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Claude Opus 4.5 API Pricing: Platform Cost Comparison [2026]
Claude Opus API pricing in 2026 — from 4.5 through the current Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 per million tokens. Batch, caching, routing multipliers, and how platforms compare.
AI API Pricing Comparison 2026: OpenAI vs Google vs Anthropic vs LinkModel
The 2026 AI API pricing comparison — OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and DeepSeek rates for text, image and video, plus how an aggregator like LinkModel changes the math.