AI Provider Directory & Pricing Policies
Every major AI provider implements fundamentally different billing rules for prompt caching, asynchronous batches, long-context thresholds, and multi-turn reasoning. Explore each provider's architecture below to optimize your API unit economics.
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA, USAPioneering frontier intelligence, reasoning models (o-series), and multimodal omni APIs
Anthropic
San Francisco, CA, USAEnterprise-grade frontier models engineered for coding, complex agents, and steerability
Google Cloud / Gemini
Mountain View, CA, USAMillion-token context native multimodal processing and high-throughput production inference
DeepSeek
Hangzhou, ChinaUltra-cost-efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with dynamic off-peak scheduling
Mistral AI
Paris, FranceEuropean frontier foundation models, specialized code generators, and multilingual reasoning
Meta Llama
Menlo Park, CA, USAThe open-weights standard powering global AI research, serverless inference, and self-hosted deployments
xAI
San Francisco, CA, USAReal-time knowledge, mathematical rigor, and high-throughput multimodal intelligence
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen
Hangzhou, ChinaState-of-the-art open multilingual and specialized coding models with massive vocabulary BPE
Cohere
Toronto, CanadaEnterprise search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-step tool orchestration