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What are the most cost-effective LLM API providers at scale?

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

11

Brands named

14

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
1DeepSeekdeepseek.com3100OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
2Mistral AImistral.ai370OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
3Anthropicanthropic.com360OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
4OpenAIopenai.com340OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
5Google Geminiai.google.dev230OpenAI · Anthropic
6Fireworks AIfireworks.ai221Anthropic · Google
7OpenRouteropenrouter.ai220OpenAI · Anthropic
8Together AItogether.ai220Anthropic · Google
9Cerebrascerebras.ai120OpenAI
10Groqgroq.com110Anthropic
11Hugging Facehuggingface.co110Anthropic

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 · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · OpenRouter · Cerebras441b69ff72…df886
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · Together AI · Groq · Fireworks AI · OpenRouter · Hugging Face55e44cb797…f4dd3
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashOpenAI · Anthropic · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · Together AI · Fireworks AI77de6a6c8f…0696e

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
costgoat.comhttps://costgoat.com/compare/llm-api1OpenAI · Google2
inventivehq.comhttps://inventivehq.com/blog/llm-api-cost-comparison1Anthropic1
cloudzero.comhttps://cloudzero.com/blog/llm-api-pricing-comparison/2OpenAI1
medium.comhttps://medium.com/@future_agi/top-11-llm-api-providers-in-2026-7eb5d235ef272Anthropic1
siliconflow.comhttps://siliconflow.com/articles/the-cheapest-llm-api-provider2Google1
pricepertoken.comhttps://pricepertoken.com/3OpenAI · Google2
datacamp.comhttps://datacamp.com/blog/best-llm-api-providers3Google1
tldl.iohttps://tldl.io/resources/llm-api-pricing3Anthropic1
fireworks.aihttps://fireworks.ai/blog/best-llm-api-providers4Google1
intuitionlabs.aihttps://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/llm-api-pricing-comparison-20254Anthropic1
llmpricecheck.comhttps://llmpricecheck.com/4OpenAI1
aimultiple.comhttps://aimultiple.com/llm-pricing5Anthropic1
youtube.comhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=a3R0_ygdNXI6Google1
medium.comhttps://medium.com/before-you-launch/a-broke-b-chs-guide-to-tech-start-up-choosing-llm-api-prices-ad451a2abfd67Google1
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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