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This Week in LLM Pricing — Jul 13, 2026
The inaugural entry in our weekly LLM pricing snapshot — exactly what the frontier models cost right now, pulled live from our own pricing API.
GPT-5 Pricing Explained: Every Tier in 2026
A full breakdown of GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5.4 nano and GPT-5.3 Codex pricing — list rates, cached input discounts, batch API, and what each tier actually costs for chat, RAG and agent workloads.
Claude vs GPT Cost Comparison 2026
Head-to-head pricing for every Claude vs GPT tier in 2026: Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.5, Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.4 mini, Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5 xhigh. Real cost tables for chat, RAG and agent workloads.
Cheapest LLM API in 2026: Top 10 Under $1/M Tokens
Ten production-ready LLM APIs that cost less than $1 per million tokens (blended) in 2026. Quality scores, context windows, real-workload math and when each one wins.
LLM Price Comparison 2026: Ranked by Cost per Quality
A data-driven 2026 LLM price comparison across GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Pro, Llama 4 Scout, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Mistral Large — with cost-per-quality rankings and when to pick each one.
GPT-4o vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: Which Is Cheaper in 2026?
A head-to-head pricing breakdown of OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 for production workloads.
How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 60% Without Sacrificing Quality
Six concrete tactics — from prompt caching to model cascading — that real teams use to slash LLM spend.
The Complete Guide to LLM Token Pricing
Everything you need to know about how LLM providers price tokens — input vs output, caching, batch, and the gotchas.
Grok Pricing 2026: xAI's Grok Cost Guide
xAI's Grok lineup in 2026 is three models deep: Grok 4.3 (high/medium) at $0.30/$1.50 per 1M tokens and Grok 4.1 Fast at $0.20/$0.50 with a 2M context window. Full breakdown, blended-cost math, and when each tier wins.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Pricing Explained (2026): Google's Mid-Tier Flagship at $1.25/$10
Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $1.25/$10 per 1M tokens with a 1M context window — tied on price with GPT-5.5, ~41% cheaper blended than Claude Sonnet 5, and a meaningful step up over Gemini 2.5 Pro at the same list price.