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Official price vs. our price, on every model.
26 frontier models from 8 providers behind one key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Doubao, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax. Claude as low as 82% off; DeepSeek · Doubao · GLM · Kimi at half price; OpenAI text & Gemini at list price. Priced in plain USD. Top up online or activate with a redeem code. Failures don't bill.
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Frontier models, well under list price.
We publish each provider's official list price next to ours — the tiers below are read live from the gateway rate card, so they always match what you're billed.
82% offAnthropic~82% below official list
20% offOpenAI~20% below official list
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Official price vs. our price, per model.
Every provider's official list price next to ours, grouped by brand — discounts pulled live from the gateway's published rate card. Failures don't bill.
Anthropic
7| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 The fastest Claude, near-frontier intelligence — 200k context, extended thinking. | $1 / $5 | $0.18 / $0.9per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Opus 4.6 Previous-gen flagship — 1M context, extended thinking. Consider migrating to Opus 4.7. | $5 / $25 | $0.9 / $4.5per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic's most capable general-purpose model — excels at complex reasoning and agentic coding, native 1M context. | $5 / $25 | $0.9 / $4.5per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic's newest flagship — further gains in complex reasoning and agentic coding, native 1M context. | $5 / $25 | $0.9 / $4.5per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic's newest flagship Claude Opus 5 — leading complex reasoning and agentic coding, native 1M context. | $5 / $25 | $0.9 / $4.5per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 The best balance of speed and intelligence — 1M context, extended/adaptive thinking. | $3 / $15 | $0.54 / $2.7per 1M tokens | 82% off |
| Claude Sonnet 5 The best balance of speed and intelligence — adaptive thinking on by default, native 1M context. | $2 / $10 | $0.36 / $1.8per 1M tokens | 82% off |
OpenAI
8| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.4 OpenAI's more economical coding and professional-work model — 1M context. | $2.5 / $15 | $2 / $12per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI's strongest mini model — good for coding, computer use, and subagents; 400k context. | $0.75 / $4.5 | $0.6 / $3.6per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI's flagship coding and professional-work model — adjustable reasoning effort, 1M context. | $5 / $30 | $4 / $24per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.6 (Sol) Official GPT-5.6 alias — always routes to the Sol flagship tier. | $4 / $20 | $3.2 / $16per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI's cost-sensitive high-throughput tier (Luna) — extraction, classification and summarization workloads, 1.05M context. | $0.2 / $1.2 | $0.16 / $0.96per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI's frontier flagship (Sol tier) — complex coding and long-horizon agentic work, reasoning effort up to max, 1.05M context. | $5 / $30 | $4 / $24per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI's balanced intelligence/cost tier (Terra) — GPT-5.5-class performance at a lower price, 1.05M context. | $2 / $12 | $1.6 / $9.6per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| GPT Image 2 OpenAI's native image generation and editing (/v1/images generations + edits) — supports arbitrary resolutions. | $5 / $10 | $4 / $8per 1M tokens | 20% off |
| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Low-latency, cost-efficient multimodal model — good for translation, transcription, document processing, and other high-frequency lightweight tasks. | $0.25 / $1.5 | $0.25 / $1.5per 1M tokens | List price |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Google's most intelligent model — sustained frontier performance, excels at agentic and coding tasks. | $1.5 / $9 | $1.5 / $9per 1M tokens | List price |
| Gemini Flash (latest) Always points to the newest Gemini Flash generation; currently equivalent to gemini-3.5-flash. | $0.3 / $2.5 | $0.3 / $2.5per 1M tokens | List price |
| Gemini Flash-Lite (latest) Always points to the newest Gemini Flash-Lite generation; currently equivalent to gemini-3.1-flash-lite. | $0.25 / $1.5 | $0.25 / $1.5per 1M tokens | List price |
| Gemini Pro (latest) Google's flagship thinking model — excels at complex code, math, and STEM reasoning; 1M context. | $2 / $12 | $2 / $12per 1M tokens | List price |
DeepSeek
2| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek's faster, more economical API. Official DeepSeek traffic is served by the vision SKU (image understanding). Deep thinking on by default, can be disabled. | $0.44 / $1.32 | $0.44 / $1.32per 1M tokens | List price |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek V4 Pro — significantly stronger agent capability and rich world knowledge; deep thinking on by default, can be disabled manually. | $1.32 / $3.96 | $1.32 / $3.96per 1M tokens | List price |
GLM
1| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash Zhipu's first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series — 320B total / 18B active parameters, with image/video/file input and 1M-token context. | $0.15 / $0.5 | $0.15 / $0.5per 1M tokens | List price |
Kimi
1| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 Kimi's flagship multimodal model (text/image/video input) with a 1M-token context window and always-on reasoning; Kimi Code defaults reasoning_effort to high. | $3 / $15 | $3 / $15per 1M tokens | List price |
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2| Model | Official | Our price | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.5 xAI's intelligent coding model for agentic software and engineering workflows — 500k context, tunable reasoning_effort (default high). | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6per 1M tokens | List price |
| Grok 4.6 xAI's flagship model for coding, long-horizon agents, and knowledge work — 500k context, tunable reasoning_effort (default high, including xhigh). | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6per 1M tokens | List price |
Token prices are per 1M (input / output). Official is each provider's public list price; our price applies the family discount. Image models are billed per token; video is billed per clip. Failures don't bill — the final charge matches the estimated_credits returned at submit time.
rate card refreshed · 2026-08-29
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26 models, transparent prices, refreshed live.
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