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LLM API providers pricing compared (2026-08) - 10 tools, tracked daily

Lowest published plan price for 10 LLM API providers, read directly from each company's live pricing page. Every page in this table is re-fetched once a day, so these are not figures someone typed up months ago.

Tool Lowest plan Line on their pricing page Changes recorded
Cohere $5 $5.00 0
Google AI $5 $5.00 0
Mistral AI $5.99 Verified students can get Mistral Pro for $5.99 / month (normally $14. 0
xAI $6 $6.00 0
Firecrawl $16 $16 0
Perplexity $17 $17 0
Anthropic $20 $20/seat. Usage cost scales with model and task. 0
OpenAI API $25 $25.00 per user per month when billed monthly. 0
AI21 Labs usage-based no subscription tier published 0
DeepSeek usage-based no subscription tier published 0

Lowest plan = the smallest recurring plan figure currently on the pricing page ($5-$10,000 range, so metered rates, add-ons and enterprise contract figures are excluded). 2 of 10 price purely by usage and publish no subscription tier. Plans differ in what they include; check the linked page before deciding.

What changed in the last 30 days

No pricing changes detected in this category during the period.

How this is compiled

Each pricing page is fetched daily. Only price-bearing lines are extracted, normalized and hashed, so layout tweaks and copy tests do not register as price changes. When the hash moves, the diff is recorded and dated. This table is regenerated from that dataset, not maintained by hand.


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