LLM API Pricing Comparison - June 2026
Verified June 8: Ministral 3B cheapest at $0.04/MTok, DeepSeek V4 Flash best value at $0.14, Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode cut to $10/$50, Mistral Large 3 corrected to $0.50/$1.50.
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Open Source LLM Hosting Costs - June 2026
Verified June 2026: real cost per million tokens for self-hosting Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, Qwen3-235B, and DeepSeek V3.2 - GPU requirements, cost formulas, and when cheap APIs actually win.
AI API Pricing Q2 2026: What Dropped and What Didn't
Q2 2026 AI API pricing review: DeepSeek V4 hits the API, GPT-5.5 launches at $5/1M, and overall token costs are down 60-80% year-over-year - but a hidden tokenizer change at Anthropic quietly raised effective prices.
Enterprise AI Platform Pricing - May 2026
Amazon Q Lite stays cheapest at $3/user, ChatGPT Business dropped to $20 annual, and Anthropic shifted Enterprise to pure usage-based billing.
Reasoning Model API Pricing Compared - May 2026
Updated May 2026: DeepSeek V4-Flash reasoning now $0.28/MTok output (8x cheaper than R1), o3-pro launched at $20/$80, Grok 4 retires May 15 - verified pricing across 11 models.
Fine-Tuning Costs Comparison - Train Your Own AI
May 2026: Together AI adds Llama 4 and DeepSeek fine-tuning, Fireworks raised deployment prices $1/hr, and H100 rentals fell to under $2.40/hr.
Image Generation API Pricing - April 2026
Per-image API costs for GPT Image 2, FLUX.2 Pro, Imagen 4, Ideogram v3, Stable Diffusion, and more - with price corrections and new additions for April 2026.
AI Video Generation Pricing - April 2026
Normalized per-second pricing for Sora 2, Veo 3, Runway Gen-4, Kling 2.x, Luma Ray2, Seedance 2, and more - Kling and Haiper lead on cost.
Agent Platform Pricing Compared 2026
True cost breakdown of commercial agent frameworks and platforms - LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, E2B, Modal, Fly.io, and more at 1k, 100k, and 1M runs, including LLM passthrough costs.
Cloud GPU Rental Pricing Compared - April 2026
Raw GPU rental rates across 20+ providers normalized to per-GPU-hour - H100, H200, A100, L40S, RTX 4090, on-demand vs spot vs reserved, with hidden costs and value-tier recommendations.
Multimodal Vision API Pricing 2026
Per-image cost comparison for vision APIs across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta Llama 4, xAI, Amazon Nova, and open-source models - with cost-at-scale math for OCR and document processing workloads.
Search API Pricing Compared 2026
Per-query pricing for search APIs used in AI agents and RAG pipelines - Brave, Tavily, Exa, SerpAPI, Serper, Perplexity Sonar, You.com, Jina Reader, Firecrawl, and more compared at 10k, 100k, and 1M queries.
