Price Per Token

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llm api pricing comparison

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130comments
#143of 3,837 in 2025
Top 4%of 2025 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

10 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 27 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.

Idea: 6 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 13 againstPricing: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, clear UI with good use of color

    From 1 comment
    • Well done. The UX is solid. Clean, intuitive, and the use of color makes everything instantly clear
      uponasmile on HN

Objections

  • Missing many providers and models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Groq

    From 4 comments
    • "OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more", where "and more" = 0. Where's Gemma, DeepSeek, etc? The UI, however, is really clean and straight to the point. I like the interface, but…
      lucasoshiro on HN
    • Is there a reason why you have not added DeepSeek and Qwen and Meta ? You should also aggregate prices from Vertex and AWS Bedrock .
      manishsharan on HN
    • Seems odd to not have r1, qwen etc, groq, etc
      cchance on HN
    • Mistral is missing
      BartjeD on HN
  • Pricing data had errors, such as Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite input price

    From 2 comments
    • But the data is... wrong? Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.10/mtok input [1] but is shown here as $0.40/mtok? [1]…
      sophia01 on HN
    • The input is wrong tho Your website reports 0.30$ for input and that wouldn't make any sense as it would be priced the same as the bigger Flash model.
      GaggiX on HN
  • Token prices alone miss caching, batch, tokenizer and endpoint differences

    From 4 comments
    • Main issue is that token are not equivalent across provider / models. With huge disparity inside provider beyond the tokenizer model: - An image will take 10x token on…
      pierre on HN
    • Maybe I am blinded by my own use case, but I find the caching pricing and strategy (since different providers use a different implementation of caching as well as different…
      Fripplebubby on HN
    • KV caching is priced and managed quite differently between providers as well. Seeing as it becomes a huge chunk of the actual tokens used, wondering if there's an easy way to…
      ashwindharne on HN
    • (I work at OpenRouter) We have solved this problem by working with the providers to implement a prices and models API that we scrape, which is how we keep our marketplace up to…
      numlocked on HN

Requests

  • Add more providers and inference hosts

    From 3 comments
    • It would be fun to compare with inference providers (groq/vertex ai, etc.).
      antoineMoPa on HN
    • Is there a reason why you have not added DeepSeek and Qwen and Meta ? You should also aggregate prices from Vertex and AWS Bedrock .
      manishsharan on HN
    • yes going to add that
      alexellman on HN
  • Add cache prices

    From 1 comment
    • I wanted to gauge interest before adding 500 models I plan on adding cache prices and making the list more comprehensive
      alexellman on HN
  • Add benchmarks or quality ranking

    From 3 comments
    • Nice! It will be good to also pull in leaderboard rankings and/or benchmarks for each of these models, so we understand capability perhaps from lmsys (not sure if there is a…
      kb_geek on HN
    • I'd love to see this data joined with common benchmarks, in order to see which models get you the most "bang for your buck", i.e. benchmark score / token cost
      ssalka on HN
    • This is awesome! I wonder how possible it is to incorporate benchmarks - maybe as a filter? Since not all tokens are as useful as others. Heh.
      generalizations on HN
  • Add price history over time

    From 2 comments
    • Can you gather historical information as well? I did a bit of spelunking of the Wayback Machine to gather a partial dataset for OpenAI, but mine is incomplete. Future planning is…
      aaronharnly on HN
    • Cool site. Would be interesting to add a time dimension to track prices over time
      dgrin91 on HN
  • Add a cost calculator

    From 1 comment
    • Nice! Missing a cost calculator with input and output fields.
      cahaya on HN

Alternatives named

  • OpenRouter

    From 3 comments
    • > The only place I am aware of is going to these provider's individual website pages to check the price per token. Openrouter is a good alternative. Added bonus that you can also…
      NitpickLawyer on HN
    • There was a time when it was unbelievably frustrating to navigate the bunch of marketing pages required to find the cost of a newly announced model, now I just look at OpenRouter…
      mythz on HN
    • (I work at OpenRouter) We have a simple model comparison tool that is not-at-all-obvious to find on the website, but hopefully can help somewhat. E.g.…
      numlocked on HN
  • llm-prices.com by Simon Willison

    From 2 comments
    • surprising that you didn't find any of the existing ones, including our own simonw's: https://www.llm-prices.com
      bananapub on HN
    • Site is down as I type this, but a shout-out to Simon Willison's LLM pricing calculator: https://www.llm-prices.com/
      CharlesW on HN
  • models.dev

    From 2 comments
  • llmprices.dev

    From 1 comment
    • there's also http://llmprices.dev. similar, but with a searchbox for quick filtering
      nikvdp on HN
  • artificialanalysis.ai

    From 1 comment
    • This is great, but as others have mentioned the UX problem is more complicated than this: - for other models there are providers that serve the same model with different prices -…
      awongh on HN

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