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AI API Price Tracker Reveals Relay Services Offer Deep Discounts

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A developer has created a tool to track and compare AI API prices across over 70 providers, covering more than 4,000 model-provider combinations. The findings reveal that the cheapest option is rarely the official provider, with relay services often offering significant discounts, sometimes 50-80% for OpenAI models and 3-5x cheaper for Claude. DeepSeek models are consistently inexpensive, while Alibaba's Qwen and Zhipu's GLM models show the deepest discounts on relay providers. Open-source models like Llama 4 Maverick also prove cheaper than many official "lite" tiers. AI

IMPACT Developers can significantly reduce AI operational costs by leveraging third-party relay services instead of official APIs.

RANK_REASON A developer built and shared a tool for comparing AI API prices.

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AI API Price Tracker Reveals Relay Services Offer Deep Discounts

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · yego ·

    I Compared 4,000+ AI API Prices So You Don't Have To

    <p>If you're building with LLMs, API costs can quietly kill your margin. The official pricing pages look simple — but the actual cheapest option for a given model is rarely the official provider.</p> <p>I spent the last few months building a scraper that tracks prices across <str…

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