The independent price desk for every AI model on the market
Every rate is read from the vendor's own price page and stamped with the date it was read. API tokens for every major lab, plus the subscriptions, AI agents and calculators that turn a rate into a bill.
| Section | Coverage | Pages | Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Hub → | Per-model pricing with calculators and historical charts | 344 pages | Nov 8 | LIVE |
| Benchmarks → | Leaderboards for the tests labs rank models on, every score linked to its source, with live API prices | 35 leaderboards | Nov 8 | NEW |
| Comparisons → | Two-way head-to-heads with live pricing, benchmarks, and verdicts | 50 pages | Nov 5 | LIVE |
| Capability Q&A → | "Can X do Y?" with verified test outputs and screenshots | 61 pages | Oct 3 | LIVE |
| Calculators → | LLM API cost, token counting, subscription vs API, video generation, text-to-speech, embeddings, fine-tuning, agent cost and image generation — on live rates | 9 live tools | Nov 8 | NEW |
| AI Agents → | Every route is priced from the vendor's page, our own test runs, and where each tool fails | 12 tools / 36 pages | Oct 30 | NEW |
| Glossary → | AI terms, each defined in a sentence and tied to what it costs on live rates | 38 terms | Oct 21 | NEW |
| The Journal → | Editorial: news cycle, deep analysis, opinion, research digests | 20 posts | Oct 28 | 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.
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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.
One verified dataset behind every page
Model pricing pages, provider hubs, comparisons and calculators all read the same snapshot of vendor rates. A section goes live only when its data is checked, so there are no placeholder pages.
No silent edits. Ever.
When a number is wrong, the page is fixed and the correction goes into a public log: date, page, what was wrong and what is right now.
