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The cheapest LLM APIs right now

Ranked by real monthly cost, not headline price. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Cheapest LLM API for a chatbot

What a customer-support or chat assistant costs on each model.

Cheapest LLM API for coding agents

Agents re-send big contexts. Here's what that costs.

How to estimate LLM token costs

A five-minute method that gets you within the right order of magnitude.

How much prompt caching saves

Cached input is 75% to 98% cheaper, depending on the model.