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Pricing Methodology
Our comparisons separate source facts from calculations and make the comparison baseline explicit.
Sources
We prioritize official pricing pages and documentation. Cloud platforms, aggregators, and resellers are tracked as distinct channels rather than presented as the model producer.
Normalization
- API prices are shown per one million tokens when the source supports token billing.
- Native currency remains visible; USD-normalized values are used for cross-currency ordering and savings calculations.
- Subscription prices keep their billing period and annual discount assumptions visible.
- “Official baseline” means the lowest tracked official or producer channel, not the cheapest channel overall.
Updates and checks
Automated collectors run regularly and a read-only audit flags missing, stale, zero, inverted, or unusual prices. Automation can still be wrong, so every purchase decision should be checked against the linked source.
Benchmarks
Benchmark scores are comparison signals, not guarantees of quality for every task. The benchmark name and scoring context are kept separate from price calculations.
Corrections
Corrections can be submitted through GitHub with a source URL. Material price changes are kept in the project price-history data where available.