LLM pricing guides
Plain-English, provider-agnostic guides to understanding and lowering your AI costs. Every guide links back to the live calculator so you can check today's numbers.
LLM API Pricing Guide
How per-token pricing works across the major providers, with example costs for common workloads.
Read →What is a token?
Tokens explained in plain English — how they map to words, and why input and output are priced differently.
Read →Cheapest LLM API in 2026
How the budget tier is priced, the trade-offs to watch, and how to find today's lowest cost per token.
Read →GPT vs Claude vs Gemini
How the three big families price their APIs, what moves your bill, and how to compare them live.
Read →How to cut your LLM API costs
Seven proven tactics — from controlling output length to caching and batching — to lower your bill.
Read →Token counter
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