I compared 18 major LLM API prices in 2026 — the same workload can cost anywhere from $0.018 to $
I compared the standard API list prices of 18 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral. To make the numbers easier to understand, I calculated the cost of the same sample workload across different models: 100,000 input tokens …