Token prices, plan limits and the real cost of finishing a task are different things. These guides read official pricing pages and independent evaluations and show the arithmetic, with the date each page was read. Prices change, so confirm on the provider’s page before you build on a number.
Pricing and cost guides
- Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills: Compare AI API Costs
- Kimi K3.1 Pro: Independent Score, Price and Weights Promise
- Grok API Models and Pricing: grok-4.7 and the Rest, Per xAI
- Codex vs Claude Code: Access, Plans and Pricing From the Official Pages
- DeepSeek API Models and Pricing: Flash vs V4 Pro, Peak and Off-Peak
- Claude Plans and Pricing: Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise Compared
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol: what Artificial Analysis shows by task
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: What the Default Effort Setting Means for Your Agent Bill
- DeepSeek Search and Fetch: Billing Units and the Tool-Fee Deadline
- Reading DeepSeek Flash-1017’s Coding Pilot and API Pricing
- GitHub Copilot HydraFusion Max: What Is Documented and What Is Not
- Why a Cheaper AI Model Can Cost More per Finished Task
- Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Choose by Task and Cost
- GPT-4 API Retirement: A Migration Checklist Before 14 January 2027