Buyer prompt · published evidence
What are the most cost-effective LLM API providers at scale?
An exact prompt-level view of which reviewed brands surfaced and which public URLs the configured AI models cited. No answer text or tenant data is published.
- Intent
- recommendation
- Model providers
- 3
- Categories
- 1
- Last observed
- Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Competitive outcome
Brands surfaced
Ordered by provider breadth, then total mentions and owned-domain citations. A mention is not an endorsement or a position claim.
| # | Brand | Category | Providers | Mentions | Owned citations | Provider evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | DeepSeekdeepseek.com ↗ | Brands | 3 | 10 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 02 | Mistral AImistral.ai ↗ | Brands | 3 | 7 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 03 | Anthropicanthropic.com ↗ | Brands | 3 | 6 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 04 | OpenAIopenai.com ↗ | Brands | 3 | 4 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 05 | Google Geminiai.google.dev ↗ | Brands | 2 | 3 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic |
| 06 | Fireworks AIfireworks.ai ↗ | Brands | 2 | 2 | 1 | Anthropic · Gemini |
| 07 | OpenRouteropenrouter.ai ↗ | Brands | 2 | 2 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic |
| 08 | Together AItogether.ai ↗ | Brands | 2 | 2 | 0 | Anthropic · Gemini |
| 09 | Cerebrascerebras.ai ↗ | Brands | 1 | 2 | 0 | Openai |
| 10 | Groqgroq.com ↗ | Brands | 1 | 1 | 0 | Anthropic |
| 11 | Hugging Facehuggingface.co ↗ | Brands | 1 | 1 | 0 | Anthropic |
Model comparison
Answer matrix
One row per configured provider and category snapshot. Hashes prove answer identity without publishing stored answer text.
| Provider | Model version | Category | Brands surfaced | Citations | Unique domains | Answer hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openai | openai/gpt-4o-mini | Brands | OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · OpenRouter · Cerebras | 4 | 4 | 1b69ff72…df886 |
| Anthropic | anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | Brands | OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · Together AI · Groq · Fireworks AI · OpenRouter · Hugging Face | 5 | 5 | e44cb797…f4dd3 |
| Gemini | google/gemini-2.5-flash | Brands | OpenAI · Anthropic · Mistral AI · DeepSeek · Together AI · Fireworks AI | 7 | 7 | de6a6c8f…0696e |
URL-derived citations
Sources cited
Hostnames are derived from the returned public URLs. Best position is the smallest citation position observed.