Price Per Token
AI
llm api pricing comparison
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How HN took it
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 HNIs 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 HNSeems odd to not have r1, qwen etc, groq, etc
cchance on HNMistral 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 $0.40/mtok? [1]…
sophia01 on HNThe input is wrong tho Your website reports 0.30$ 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 HNMaybe 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 HNKV 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 HNIs 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 HNyes 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 HNI'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 HNThis 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 HNCool 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 HNThere 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 HNSite 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
Nice. I think I prefer https://models.dev/ as it seems more complete
james2doyle on HNThere’s also this: https://models.dev/
d4rkp4ttern on HN
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