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What are the best LLM API platforms for a production application?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Sep 10, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Recommendation

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

12

Brands named

13

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsOwn-site citationsNamed by
1Anthropicanthropic.com390OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
2OpenAIopenai.com370OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
3Google Geminiai.google.dev350OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
4Groqgroq.com240Anthropic · Google
5Hugging Facehuggingface.co230OpenAI · Google
6OpenRouteropenrouter.ai220Anthropic · Google
7Together AItogether.ai220OpenAI · Google
8Fireworks AIfireworks.ai212OpenAI · Google
9Amazon Bedrockaws.amazon.com110Google
10Coherecohere.com110Google
11Microsoft Azure AIazure.microsoft.com110Google
12Mistral AImistral.ai110Google

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniOpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Together AI · Fireworks AI · Hugging Face442235dd2e…42e89
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Groq · OpenRouter55d077653b…1cb54
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashOpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Mistral AI · Cohere · Microsoft Azure AI · Amazon Bedrock · Together AI · Groq · Fireworks AI · OpenRouter · Hugging Face6600684f71…13730

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
digitalocean.comhttps://digitalocean.com/resources/articles/llm-api-providers1OpenAI1
kanerika.comhttps://kanerika.com/blogs/chatgpt-vs-gemini-vs-claude/1Anthropic1
syncfusion.comhttps://syncfusion.com/blogs/post/top-llm-api-comparison-20261Google1
fireworks.aihttps://fireworks.ai/blog/best-llm-api-providers2OpenAI · Google2
datacamp.comhttps://datacamp.com/blog/best-llm-api-providers2OpenAI1
mongoengine.orghttps://mongoengine.org/openai-vs-claude-vs-gemini-api/2Anthropic1
linkedin.comhttps://linkedin.com/posts/tobyreeves_couldnt-sleep-at-4am-so-i-did-what-any-activity-7445096383554154497-Uy_g3Anthropic1
morphllm.comhttps://morphllm.com/llm-api3Google1
braintrust.devhttps://braintrust.dev/articles/best-unified-llm-api-providers-20264OpenAI · Google2
artificialanalysis.aihttps://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/providers4Google1
renezander.comhttps://renezander.com/guides/llm-api-comparison/4Anthropic1
gitautoreview.comhttps://gitautoreview.com/tools/llm-pricing5Anthropic1
siliconflow.comhttps://siliconflow.com/articles/the-best-api-providers-of-open-source-llm5Google1
Snapshots
5822220c-0bc2-456a-a7a8-9bcfe3108738
Question set
ai-model-api-platforms-2026-07-26
Benchmark version
4-ai-model-api-platforms-2026-07-26-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in Brands. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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