Anthropic guides
Batch API: when half price is worth the wait
What the Batch API saves on Claude, GPT-6, Gemini, Grok and Mistral for 100,000 summaries, from official prices, plus DeepSeek's off-peak.
What 1,000 AI API requests cost on 19 models (October 2026)
Dollar cost of 1,000 chat, coding-agent and summary requests on Claude, GPT-6, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral, from official list prices.
What a context window is, and when you actually need 1M tokens
What counts toward an AI model's context window, how big it is on Claude, GPT-6, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral, and what a 1M-token request costs.
Prompt caching in practice: what it saves on Claude, GPT-6, Gemini and DeepSeek
How much prompt caching cuts your AI API bill, worked out from official prices for 14 models: cache read discounts, agent and document examples, write costs.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini subscriptions: which plan is worth it
ChatGPT Go, Plus and Pro, Claude Pro and Max, Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra compared: price, models, limits, extras, and when the API is cheaper.
Claude Haiku 5.5 explained: price, the 100K-token cliff, and when to use it
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 / $0.50 per million tokens up to 100K-token prompts, then 5x more. Costs vs Haiku 4.5, GPT-6 Luna and Gemini, worked out.
Claude Max vs Ultra: what changed and which plan to pick
Max 20x is now Claude Ultra at $200. What Max ($100) and Ultra include, how the API credits work, and what they buy at Claude API prices.
Claude models explained: Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's Claude lineup in plain English: what each model is for, what it costs through the API, what claude.ai plans include, and Fable vs Mythos.
DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash explained: peak vs off-peak pricing
DeepSeek's two API models, their peak and off-peak prices, when the cheap hours are, and what 1,000 requests cost against Claude, GPT-6, Gemini and Grok.
GPT-6.1 Terra explained: price, context and where it fits
GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 / $5 per million tokens with $0.05 cache reads and a 1.05M context. What it costs vs GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek.
Grok 4.7 explained: price, 500K context and where it fits
Grok 4.7 costs $2 / $6 per million tokens with $0.50 cache reads and a 500K context. Costs vs Claude, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini, worked out from list prices.
Gemini 4 Argon explained: price, 1M context and what it really costs
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 / $10 per million tokens until November 30, then $4 / $20. Costs vs Claude, GPT-6 and Grok, worked out from official list prices.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: same price, what actually differs
Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol both cost $2 / $10 per million tokens. Cache, long-context and real workload costs compared, plus each maker's benchmark claims.
AI API pricing explained: tokens, input vs output, caching and batch
How AI API pricing works, with dollar examples: tokens, why output costs more, caching and batch discounts, and DeepSeek's peak hours.
Why does ChatGPT or Claude feel dumber? What's actually on the record
The documented reasons an AI model gets worse: confirmed bugs, changed defaults, outages and long chats. What providers admitted and how to test it.