AI API cost, measured

Not list prices — billing data. Every analysis below is computed from real calls served by the gateway and can be recomputed from the public price feed.

Cheapest text run
FREE
GLM-4.7-Flash · 1M in + 200K out
Cheapest 5s video
$0.154
PixVerse C1 Video API · per clip
Cheapest image
FREE
CogView3-Flash · per image

The series

75.9%
Which model took 41% of the bill
upper bound if every call used the cheapest model
0.005%
Audit: 0% markup verified
deviation from provider list price across 58 models
$0.0048
What real calls cost
median paid call, 13,807 calls
$0.308
What media generation costs
median 5s video clip, 121 calls
324ms–68s
Latency by model, measured
30 days of gateway traffic, 63 models
Underlying data: price feed free-tier limits MCP endpoint cheapest per task cost calculator
Prices and cheapest tiles reflect the live feed at page generation time. The written analyses cover the 30-day window ending 2026-10-22.