The independent price desk for every AI model on the market
Launched May 2026 with verified pricing for Anthropic's Claude lineup. Shipping coverage of every major lab — OpenAI, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta — through Q3 2026. No paid placements. No sponsored rankings. No vibes.
| Section | Coverage | Pages | Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Hub → | Per-model pricing with calculators and historical charts | 300 pages | Sep 9 | LIVE |
| Comparisons → | Two-way head-to-heads with live pricing, benchmarks, and verdicts | 50 pages | Sep 6 | LIVE |
| Capability Q&A → | "Can X do Y?" with verified test outputs and screenshots | 61 pages | Aug 21 | LIVE |
| Calculators → | LLM API cost, token counter, subscription break-even, TTS pricing — on live rates | 4 live tools | Sep 9 | NEW |
| AI Agents → | Every route in priced from the vendor's page, our own test runs, and where each tool fails | 4 tools / 12 pages | Aug 28 | NEW |
| Alternatives | Curated swaps with filtering by free, open-source, region | — | — | SOON |
| Best for [task] | Editorial picks with strict separation of sponsored slots | — | — | SOON |
| Integrations | Tool-pair workflows with multi-platform recipes & cost | — | — | SOON |
| Rankings | Top-N lists with transparent methodology and dual disclosure | — | — | SOON |
| Glossary | Definitions with code samples, cost framing, adoption signals | — | — | SOON |
| The Journal → | Editorial: news cycle, deep analysis, opinion, research digests | 18 posts | Aug 31 | LIVE |
Flagship rates
Blended rate assumes a 92% input / 8% output, 82% cached workload — the same assumption behind every effective-rate figure on this site. Raw input and output rates are read off each vendor's own pricing page. Where a vendor publishes no cached-input rate, no cache discount is applied, so that model's blended figure is a ceiling rather than a like-for-like number.
Featured comparisons
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The tape doesn't lie.
Every price move, model release, and policy change in the AI market — logged within hours, not weeks.
→ Subscribe to the wireVendor-canonical, not press releases
Pricing data is verified manually against each vendor's own canonical pricing page — 23 frontier providers, no scraping, no third-party aggregators. Every number on this site has a verification date stamped next to it.
Models documented, tools shipping
Per-model pricing pages cover 23 frontier providers, and the first calculator — LLM API cost — is live on the same verified data. Side-by-side comparisons are next. We don't claim coverage we don't have.
No paid placements. Ever.
Editorial rankings are not for sale. Affiliate links exist and are disclosed line-by-line. Sponsored slots in lists are visually quarantined and labeled.
