TokenGauge price index: same LLM varies up to 85% across providers and gateways
const_reborn · x · 2026-10-14
- TokenGauge compared blended 80/20 per-token prices (all fees included) for 21 popular models across lab-direct APIs and four gateways.
- Cheapest-most-often provider per lab, with median savings vs list: Anthropic→SayGM (−12.1%), OpenAI→SayGM (−25.5%), Google→SayGM (−35.0%), Moonshot→SayGM (−50.0%), Z.ai→OpenRouter (−69.4%), DeepSeek→OpenRouter (−85.6%).
- SayGM is TokenGauge's Provider of the Year, cheapest on 17 of 21 models, with its gateway sealed in a verifiable TDX hardware enclave.
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