AI

Models, what they cost, and the services that sit between you and them.

6 lists120 entries120 with their own page

What gets in

A model is listed only once its provider publishes pricing and documents an API. Every figure carries a source and the date we checked it; the ranking is ours.

Start here

Top four from Models we would actually reach for

8.8

gpt-6.1-sol

The middle of OpenAI three tiers, and the one we would default to. Output costs a fifth of the model above it and twenty times the model below it, which puts it in the band where you stop deciding per request and just use it.

OpenAIllm · api

8.7

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic prices this as the middle of its range and describes it as the speed-and-intelligence compromise. Against the model above it in the same family, output costs a fifth as much.

Anthropicllm · api

8.7

Gemini 3.8 Flash

The cheapest way onto Google current generation, and the price is explicitly temporary: it roughly doubles on 1 January 2027. Worth knowing before you build a budget on it.

Googlellm · api

8.5

deepseek-v4-pro

Off-peak pricing is the interesting part: the same request costs half as much outside the busy window. If your work is a batch job rather than an interactive one, scheduling is a bigger lever here than model choice.

DeepSeekllm · api

Models

1 list · the list itself

Ranked by what each model is for, not by leaderboard position.

13 Oct

Models we would actually reach for

Ranked on what each model is for rather than where it sits on a leaderboard. Fourteen of the twenty carry prices read off the provider own page, with the date we opened it printed beside every number. The rest have no published figures we could read, and say so instead of carrying a guess.

AI / Models20 entries

Agents

1 list · the list itself

Things that do the work rather than answer the question.

12 Oct

Agents that finish the job

Tools that take a task and come back with work done, rather than a suggestion about how to do it. Ranked by how much of the loop they actually close.

AI / Agents20 entries

Token plans

1 list · the list itself

Credits, subscriptions and where the per-token price stops being the real price.

12 Oct

Credits and subscriptions

The flat monthly options, ranked by whether the ceiling is somewhere you will actually reach. A subscription only beats the meter if you would have spent more than the fee using it.

AI / Token plans20 entries