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    {
      "name": "OpenAI",
      "slug": "openai",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party model lab; the default frontier API for GPT-5 family text, image, audio and embeddings.",
      "offering": "Frontier proprietary API (GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4/Mini/Nano, GPT-5.x Pro, GPT-5.3 Codex), plus Batch and Realtime APIs.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "GPT-5.6 Sol $5/$30, Terra $2/$12, Luna $0.20/$1.20; GPT-5.5 $5/$30, Nano $0.20/$1.25 per Mtok. Terra and Luna were cut 20% and 80% on July 30, 2026; Sol was excluded. Batch and Flex 50% off; cached input up to 90% off; Fast mode (which replaced Priority Processing) 2x standard.",
      "standout": "The default frontier benchmark; the GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) went generally available July 9, 2026, then took a price cut on July 30 that left Luna at $0.20/$1.20, cheaper than the GPT-5.4 nano floor it had replaced. Note: winding down its fine-tuning platform (closed to new users as of May 2026).",
      "flagshipModel": "GPT-5.6 Sol",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 30,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$5 in free credits for new accounts (expire in 3 months).",
      "homeUrl": "https://openai.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://platform.openai.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-07-31",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Anthropic",
      "slug": "anthropic",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party model lab focused on safety, coding and agentic work; the Claude family.",
      "offering": "Frontier proprietary API: Claude Opus 5 (from July 24, 2026), Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5, with Fable 5 and Mythos 5 above Opus. All at 1M-token context.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Opus 5 $5/$25 (same rate as the Opus 4.8 it replaces), Sonnet 5 $3/$15 (intro $2/$10 through Aug 31 2026), Haiku 4.5 $1/$5 per Mtok. Batch 50% off; prompt caching up to 90% off.",
      "standout": "Output costs 5x input across the line; pricing has held steady across generations. Run-rate revenue passed $30B in early 2026.",
      "flagshipModel": "Claude Opus 5",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 25,
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://anthropic.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://claude.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://platform.claude.com/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://claude.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "US-only inference adds a 1.1x multiplier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Google",
      "slug": "google",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Hyperscaler and first-party lab; Gemini via the Gemini API, AI Studio and Vertex AI.",
      "offering": "Gemini 3.x API (3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite). AI Studio is free for prototyping; Vertex AI adds enterprise SLAs and compliance.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Gemini 3.1 Pro $2/$12 (to 200K ctx), 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9, Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50 per Mtok. 90% context-caching discount.",
      "standout": "Largest production context window (2M tokens) and the cheapest Tier-1 budget model (Flash-Lite). Pro models are paid-only as of April 1, 2026.",
      "flagshipModel": "Gemini 3.1 Pro",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 12,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "AI Studio free for prototyping; Flash retains a free tier.",
      "homeUrl": "https://ai.google.dev",
      "pricingUrl": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "xAI (Grok)",
      "slug": "xai-grok",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party model lab; Grok, the only frontier model with live grounding to X posts.",
      "offering": "Frontier proprietary API: Grok 4.5 (flagship, 500K ctx), Grok 4.20 (2M ctx long-context), Grok 4.1 Fast (cheap workhorse).",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Grok 4.5 $2/$6, Grok 4.1 Fast $0.20/$0.50 per Mtok. Batch 50% off; cached input ~90% off.",
      "standout": "Only frontier model with live grounding to X posts; xAI markets Grok 4.5 (released July 8, 2026) as Opus-class at $2/$6, trained jointly with Cursor and priced well below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol. API is independent of X subscriptions.",
      "flagshipModel": "Grok 4.5",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 6,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "Free developer credits via data-sharing program (~$150-175/mo reported).",
      "homeUrl": "https://x.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://x.ai/api",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.x.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.ai/api",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-07-10",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Meta",
      "slug": "meta",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party model lab (Meta Superintelligence Labs); the Muse Spark Model API is Meta's first paid, closed frontier model, separate from the open-weight Llama line.",
      "offering": "First-party Model API in public preview: Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal agentic reasoning model with a 1M-token context (Meta-reported). OpenAI-compatible request format.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Muse Spark 1.1 $1.25/$4.25 per Mtok. No cached-input rate published yet.",
      "standout": "Meta's first paid model and its move from open-weight-only to a closed frontier API; leads tool-use and agentic tests on Meta's own numbers but trails the coding frontier. US-only and waitlisted at launch, and kept off third-party platforms.",
      "flagshipModel": "Muse Spark 1.1",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 4.25,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$20 in free credits for new API accounts.",
      "homeUrl": "https://ai.meta.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-07-10",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Public preview, US-only with a waitlist at launch. Artificial Analysis scores it at Intelligence Index 43."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mistral",
      "slug": "mistral",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "EU",
      "summary": "European (French) first-party lab; open-weight friendly with EU data residency.",
      "offering": "Mistral Large 3, Medium 3.5, Small 3, Codestral (code), Ministral 3B/8B (edge), Pixtral (vision), OCR. Many under Apache 2.0.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Large 2 tier $2/$6, Small 3 $0.10/$0.30, Ministral 3B ~$0.04/$0.04 per Mtok.",
      "standout": "Among the cheapest flagship-tier output pricing, plus EU data residency and genuine open weights for self-hosting.",
      "flagshipModel": "Mistral Large",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 6,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "Free experimentation tier via la Plateforme.",
      "homeUrl": "https://mistral.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://mistral.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://console.mistral.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://mistral.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "DeepSeek",
      "slug": "deepseek",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "China",
      "summary": "Chinese first-party lab (open-weight); among the cheapest frontier-class APIs in the market.",
      "offering": "V4 Flash (cheapest frontier-class API, re-post-trained as the 0731 checkpoint on July 31, 2026) and V4 Pro. Both 1M ctx, 384K max output. Open weights with 10M+ downloads.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "V4 Flash $0.14/$0.28, V4 Pro $0.435/$0.87 per Mtok, from DeepSeek's own price page. Cache hits are near free at $0.0028 and $0.003625, roughly a 99% discount.",
      "standout": "Roughly 90-95% cheaper than comparable Western models, with open weights. Its cheap V4 Flash tier now outscores its own V4 Pro on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 50 to 44. Owned by hedge fund High-Flyer.",
      "flagshipModel": "DeepSeek V4 Pro",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 0.87,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://deepseek.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-07-31",
      "status": "verified",
      "note": "Prices re-verified against DeepSeek's official price page on 2026-07-31; the previously listed V4 Pro rate of $1.74/$3.48 was wrong by 4x. DeepSeek's price page states a pending 2x peak-hour surcharge (09:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time) with no announced effective date. Some hosts serve at aggressive quantization. Legacy R1/V3.2 aliases retired July 24, 2026."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cohere",
      "slug": "cohere",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Enterprise-focused first-party lab specializing in RAG and retrieval.",
      "offering": "Command (generation: Command A/R+/R/R7B), Embed (vectors), Rerank (neural reranking). Strong on data sovereignty and on-prem.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Command R+ / Command A $2.50/$10, Command R $0.15/$0.60, Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15 per Mtok. Embed v3 $0.10/M.",
      "standout": "Best-in-class Embed plus Rerank stack for retrieval; strong on data sovereignty, VPC and on-prem deployment.",
      "flagshipModel": "Command A",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 10,
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "Free trial key (1,000 calls/month, not for production).",
      "homeUrl": "https://cohere.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://cohere.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://cohere.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "MiniMax",
      "slug": "minimax",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "China",
      "summary": "Chinese first-party lab; multimodal across text, voice and Hailuo video.",
      "offering": "M-series: M2.7, M3, plus legacy abab6.5 and MiniMax-01 (1M ctx). A faster highspeed variant at 2x.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "M2.7 $0.30/$1.20 per Mtok (official), cache reads $0.06/M.",
      "standout": "Frontier-class coding and agentic quality at ~5-10% of Claude Opus output pricing. M2.7 restricts commercial use (M2 was MIT).",
      "flagshipModel": "MiniMax M2.7",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 1.2,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://minimax.io",
      "pricingUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo",
      "docsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "StepFun",
      "slug": "stepfun",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "China",
      "summary": "Chinese first-party lab; multimodal MoE models, mostly open-weight.",
      "offering": "Step 3.7 Flash (196B/~11B active, 256K ctx, native image and video input), Step 3.5 Flash, Step3.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Step 3.7 Flash $0.20/$1.15, Step 3.5 Flash $0.09/$0.30, Step3 $0.57/$1.42 per Mtok.",
      "standout": "Disproportionately strong agentic benchmark scores relative to its price tier.",
      "flagshipModel": "Step3",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 1.42,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://stepfun.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs/en/guides/pricing/details",
      "docsUrl": "https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs/en/guides/pricing/details",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Reka AI",
      "slug": "reka-ai",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party natively-multimodal lab across text, image, video and audio.",
      "offering": "Reka Core (top reasoning), Flash/Flash 3 (21B), Edge (7B vision-language), Spark. Deployable cloud, on-prem or on-device.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Edge $0.10/$0.10, Flash 3 $0.10/$0.20 per Mtok (via OpenRouter); Core is most expensive.",
      "standout": "Flexible deployment down to edge and device; Reka Edge uses only 64 tokens per image tile for low-latency robotics and AR.",
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://reka.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://docs.reka.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.reka.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://docs.reka.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Pricing via OpenRouter; official rates may differ modestly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Upstage",
      "slug": "upstage",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "Korea",
      "summary": "South Korean first-party lab; also document AI.",
      "offering": "Solar Pro 3 (102B total/12B active, 128K ctx, tuned for Korean/English/Japanese), Solar Pro 2, Document Parse/Extract.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Solar Pro 3 ~$0.15/$0.60 per Mtok (via OpenRouter); Document Parse ~$0.01/page. Prices exclude 10% VAT.",
      "standout": "Best positioned for Korean-language and structured document and instruction-following tasks.",
      "flagshipModel": "Solar Pro 3",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 0.6,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://upstage.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://upstage.ai/pricing/api",
      "docsUrl": "https://console.upstage.ai/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://upstage.ai/pricing/api",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Kimi (Moonshot AI)",
      "slug": "kimi-moonshot",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "China",
      "summary": "Chinese first-party lab; long-context and agentic specialist, open-weight (modified MIT).",
      "offering": "Kimi K3 (flagship, ~2.8T-param MoE, 1M ctx, native vision, weights due 2026-07-27), K2.6 (1T MoE/32B active, 256K ctx), K2.7-Code (coding specialist). Agent Swarm up to 300 subagents.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "K3 $3.00/$15.00 (cache-hit input $0.30), K2.7-Code $0.95/$4.00 per Mtok. Batch API 40% off.",
      "standout": "Flagship K3 lands at Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 57 with API pricing below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5; the K2 line stays far cheaper.",
      "flagshipModel": "Kimi K3",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 15,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://moonshot.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://platform.kimi.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k3",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-07-17",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Sarvam (Sarvam AI)",
      "slug": "sarvam-ai",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "India",
      "summary": "Indian first-party full-stack sovereign AI lab, IndiaAI Mission-backed.",
      "offering": "Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B (MoE, trained on Indian compute, 128K ctx, open-weight), Bulbul (TTS), Saaras (STT), translation (22 languages), OCR.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Chat completion ~Rs 4 input / Rs 16 output per Mtok (105B tier); STT Rs 45/hour. Free credits on signup.",
      "standout": "INR-denominated pricing avoids USD plus GST overhead; data hosted in India; best-in-class Indic-language and OCR performance.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "Free credits on signup.",
      "homeUrl": "https://sarvam.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://sarvam.ai/api-pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.sarvam.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://sarvam.ai/api-pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Raised a $234M first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (June 15, 2026), led by HCLTech."
    },
    {
      "name": "Inception (Inception Labs)",
      "slug": "inception-labs",
      "category": "first-party-lab",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "First-party lab pioneering diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) that generate tokens in parallel via denoising.",
      "offering": "Mercury 2 (reasoning dLLM, 128K ctx, >1,000 tok/s on Blackwell), Mercury Coder, Mercury Edit 2. Default in Continue and Zed.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Mercury 2 $0.25/$0.75 per Mtok (cached input $0.025/M).",
      "standout": "First commercially available diffusion LLM, for ~5-10x faster, cheaper inference than one-token-at-a-time models.",
      "flagshipModel": "Mercury 2",
      "flagshipOutputPerMtok": 0.75,
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "10M free tokens per new account.",
      "homeUrl": "https://inceptionlabs.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://inceptionlabs.ai/models",
      "docsUrl": "https://inceptionlabs.ai/models",
      "sourceUrl": "https://inceptionlabs.ai/models",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Stanford spinout, ~$50M raised."
    },
    {
      "name": "Microsoft Azure",
      "slug": "azure",
      "category": "hyperscaler-marketplace",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Cloud hyperscaler with an 11,000+ model marketplace (Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry).",
      "offering": "Hosts OpenAI (GPT-5 family, Sora, image), plus DeepSeek, Grok, Llama, Mistral, FLUX, and managed GPU compute.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Token pricing matches OpenAI direct (GPT-5 $1.25/$10 per Mtok). PTUs for sustained load from ~$2,448/mo.",
      "standout": "Enterprise governance, compliance and Azure integration. Real bills often run 15-40% above raw token cost (support, networking, search).",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$200 free credit for 30 days.",
      "homeUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/",
      "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/ai-services/openai/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Amazon Bedrock",
      "slug": "amazon-bedrock",
      "category": "hyperscaler-marketplace",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Cloud hyperscaler managed model service with a 100+ model marketplace.",
      "offering": "Foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, AI21, Amazon (Nova/Titan), Stability, and now OpenAI. AgentCore for agents.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Per-token, matching providers (Claude Sonnet 5 $3/$15, Nova Micro $0.035/$0.14 per Mtok). Batch 50% off; caching up to 90% off.",
      "standout": "Deep AWS integration, FedRAMP and HIPAA compliance. Watch hidden costs (OpenSearch Serverless ~$345/mo for Knowledge Bases).",
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock",
      "pricingUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Five billing modes: on-demand, batch, provisioned throughput, prompt caching, customization."
    },
    {
      "name": "Snowflake (Cortex)",
      "slug": "snowflake-cortex",
      "category": "hyperscaler-marketplace",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "AI inference layer inside the Snowflake Data Cloud; data never leaves the perimeter.",
      "offering": "Pre-integrated Arctic, Llama, Mistral, Reka, Google, plus OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek. AISQL, Cortex Search, Analyst and Agents.",
      "pricingModel": "consumption",
      "representativePricing": "Consumption and credit-based, token-metered, roughly $0.12-5.10 per Mtok depending on model; warehouse compute billed separately.",
      "standout": "AI runs where the data lives, no egress; Snowflake does not train on customer data.",
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "No dedicated free tier (trial credits only).",
      "homeUrl": "https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex/",
      "pricingUrl": "https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex",
      "sourceUrl": "https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Databricks (Mosaic AI)",
      "slug": "databricks-mosaic-ai",
      "category": "hyperscaler-marketplace",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Data and AI platform with model serving on the lakehouse, under unified governance.",
      "offering": "Open foundation models (Llama, DBRX) plus external models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere). Tight Unity Catalog governance.",
      "pricingModel": "consumption",
      "representativePricing": "Consumption via DBUs from ~$0.07/DBU; pay-per-token, provisioned throughput (Llama 3.3 70B from $6/hr per band), and batch.",
      "standout": "Tight integration with Unity Catalog governance and data pipelines; OpenAI-compatible API.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "14-day free trial; Free Edition available.",
      "homeUrl": "https://databricks.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://databricks.com/product/pricing/foundation-model-serving",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/model-serving/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://databricks.com/product/pricing/foundation-model-serving",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Together AI",
      "slug": "together-ai",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Neutral open-model inference cloud hosting 200+ open models.",
      "offering": "Serverless per-token (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Mixtral), plus fine-tuning, dedicated endpoints and GPU clusters.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "DeepSeek V3.1 $0.60/$1.70, GPT-OSS 20B $0.05/$0.20 per Mtok; H100 reserved ~$3.99/hr. $5 minimum credit.",
      "standout": "Broad catalog, research-driven optimization (FlashAttention lineage), full-stack from serverless to clusters.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://together.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://together.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.together.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://together.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Fireworks AI",
      "slug": "fireworks-ai",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Neutral open-model inference platform from the creators of PyTorch; speed and throughput focus.",
      "offering": "Serverless per-token (DeepSeek/Kimi/GLM/MiniMax catalog), on-demand GPUs, fine-tuning, reserved capacity. 30T+ tokens/day.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "8B-class ~$0.20/M, 70B-class ~$0.90/M; H100/H200 $6/hr, B200 $9/hr. Batch 50% off. Often 20-40% below Together.",
      "standout": "Day-zero model support and rapid growth: $315M annualized revenue as of February 2026; in talks at a $15B valuation in mid-2026.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$1 free starter credit.",
      "homeUrl": "https://fireworks.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://fireworks.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.fireworks.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://fireworks.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "DeepInfra",
      "slug": "deepinfra",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Low-cost serverless inference for open-weight models; runs its own US data centers.",
      "offering": "190+ models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Gemma, Mistral, Nemotron, Kimi) plus embeddings, TTS, image. Dedicated GPUs by the hour.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "From ~$0.06/M for small models; DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.10/$0.20 per Mtok. ~5T tokens/week.",
      "standout": "Among the cheapest serverless options, runs its own US data centers including Blackwell B200.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "No standing free tier.",
      "homeUrl": "https://deepinfra.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://deepinfra.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://deepinfra.com/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://deepinfra.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Community reports flag FP4 quantization on some models."
    },
    {
      "name": "Replicate",
      "slug": "replicate",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Developer-friendly model-hosting marketplace (acquired by Cloudflare, late 2025).",
      "offering": "50,000+ community models plus ~100 curated Official Models (Claude, DeepSeek, FLUX, Veo, Kling). Deploy custom models via Cog.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Hardware-per-second (CPU $0.000025/s up to H100 ~$0.001525/s) and output-based (per token/image/video).",
      "standout": "Largest open model catalog and easiest experimentation. Cold starts and unpredictable per-second billing are the main drawbacks.",
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://replicate.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://replicate.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://replicate.com/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://replicate.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "Now owned by Cloudflare, which may affect the roadmap over time."
    },
    {
      "name": "SiliconFlow",
      "slug": "siliconflow",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "China",
      "summary": "Chinese model-as-a-service aggregator; notable for Huawei Ascend-based DeepSeek serving.",
      "offering": "200+ models across text/image/video/audio (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Step, FLUX). Backed by Alibaba Cloud.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Pay-as-you-go per-token (DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14/$0.28 per Mtok); reserved GPU ~CNY 2.73/hr.",
      "standout": "6M+ users, 100B+ daily tokens, fastest to handle DeepSeek traffic.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$1 credits on signup; some smaller models permanently free.",
      "homeUrl": "https://siliconflow.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://siliconflow.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://siliconflow.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Hyperbolic",
      "slug": "hyperbolic",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Decentralized open-access AI cloud: a GPU marketplace plus serverless inference.",
      "offering": "25+ open models plus a GPU marketplace that aggregates idle GPUs. Pay by card or crypto. Serves Llama-3.1-405B-Base in BF16.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "GPU/hr: RTX 4090 $0.50, A100 ~$1.60-1.80, H100 PCIe $3.00, H100 SXM $3.20. Llama 3.3 70B $0.40/M.",
      "standout": "Up to 75% savings vs hyperscalers by pooling idle GPUs; only platform serving Llama-3.1-405B-Base in BF16.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$1 promo credit (not for GPU rental).",
      "homeUrl": "https://hyperbolic.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://docs.hyperbolic.xyz/docs/hyperbolic-pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.hyperbolic.xyz",
      "sourceUrl": "https://docs.hyperbolic.xyz/docs/hyperbolic-pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Nebius",
      "slug": "nebius",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "EU",
      "summary": "Full-stack European AI cloud (successor to Yandex N.V.); Token Factory plus raw GPU rental.",
      "offering": "Token Factory: 60+ open-source models in Fast/Base tiers, OpenAI-compatible. Also H100/H200/B200/B300 rental with per-second billing.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Cheapest ~$0.06-0.08/M input (Nemotron 3 Nano $0.08 blended) up to ~$1.93/M for DeepSeek V4 Pro. Reserve discounts up to 35%.",
      "standout": "EU data residency, full-stack managed compute plus inference, and a ~$2B NVIDIA deal with early Rubin access.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://nebius.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://nebius.com/token-factory/prices",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.nebius.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://nebius.com/token-factory/prices",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "The NVIDIA Rubin 10x cost-per-token claim is projected for H2 2026, not yet delivered."
    },
    {
      "name": "Parasail",
      "slug": "parasail",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Inference-only AI Supercloud aggregating global GPU supply (40 data centers, 15 countries).",
      "offering": "Serverless per-token (GLM-5.2, Kimi, DeepSeek V4, MiniMax, Qwen, gpt-oss, Llama), dedicated endpoints and batch. Deploy any HF model in ~5 lines.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "~$0.09/M for MiMo-V2.5 up to ~$0.90/M for GLM-5.1. 500B tokens/day.",
      "standout": "Lossless by default, no hidden quantization; pay-per-token with no GPU contracts. Founded by an ex-Groq exec; raised $32M Series A.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://parasail.io",
      "pricingUrl": "https://saas.parasail.io/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.parasail.io",
      "sourceUrl": "https://saas.parasail.io/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "FriendliAI",
      "slug": "friendliai",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Fast-serving inference platform with custom kernels and speculative decoding.",
      "offering": "Serverless Endpoints (OpenAI-compatible), Dedicated Endpoints (per GPU-hour), Container (on-prem). DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Llama, EXAONE.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Pay-per-token serverless plus per GPU-hour dedicated. Claims 50-90% cost savings vs vLLM.",
      "standout": "Claims up to 3x faster than vLLM via custom kernels, speculative decoding, continuous batching. SOC 2 Type II plus HIPAA, 99.99% uptime SLA.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "$5 free credits.",
      "homeUrl": "https://friendli.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://friendli.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://friendli.ai/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://friendli.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Baseten",
      "slug": "baseten",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Enterprise model-inference platform; deploy custom/open/fine-tuned models via the Truss framework.",
      "offering": "Per-minute dedicated GPU billing (T4 ~$0.01/min up to B200 ~$0.166/min) with scale-to-zero, plus a per-token Model APIs catalog.",
      "pricingModel": "mixed",
      "representativePricing": "Model APIs median ~$0.60/$2.20 per Mtok; dedicated GPU T4 ~$0.01/min up to B200 ~$0.166/min.",
      "standout": "Multi-cloud routing across ~18-20 providers, 1B+ inference calls/day. Closed a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation (June 22, 2026).",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "New-account credits.",
      "homeUrl": "https://baseten.co",
      "pricingUrl": "https://baseten.co/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.baseten.co",
      "sourceUrl": "https://baseten.co/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "GMI (GMI Cloud)",
      "slug": "gmi-cloud",
      "category": "neutral-inference-platform",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "AI-native GPU and inference cloud (NVIDIA Preferred Partner); bare-metal pricing with no forced upsell.",
      "offering": "Bare-metal plus serverless plus dedicated clusters. Inference Engine (auto-scaling), Cluster Engine, and Model-as-a-Service.",
      "pricingModel": "per-gpu-hour",
      "representativePricing": "On-demand GPU/hr: H100 from $2.00, H200 from $2.60, B200 from $4.00, GB200 from $8.00. Reserved cuts 30-50%.",
      "standout": "Claims 40-70% savings vs hyperscalers; pure bare-metal rates with no forced CPU or networking upsell.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://gmicloud.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://gmicloud.ai/en/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.gmicloud.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://gmicloud.ai/en/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Groq",
      "slug": "groq",
      "category": "custom-silicon",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Custom-silicon (LPU) inference cloud for open models; among the fastest inference available.",
      "offering": "Runs Llama, Qwen, Kimi, GPT-OSS, DeepSeek distills and Whisper at 500-1,000+ tok/s. Catalog is open-source only.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Llama 3.1 8B $0.05/$0.08, Llama 3.3 70B $0.59/$0.79, Kimi K2 $1/$3 per Mtok. Batch and caching each cut 50%.",
      "standout": "Among the fastest inference available. NVIDIA agreed to pay ~$20B for a perpetual license to Groq's LPU patents (finalized December 24, 2025); GroqCloud continues operating.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "Free developer tier (no credit card).",
      "homeUrl": "https://groq.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://groq.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://console.groq.com/docs",
      "sourceUrl": "https://groq.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "Cerebras",
      "slug": "cerebras",
      "category": "custom-silicon",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Wafer-scale (WSE-3) inference cloud; the speed champion at 1,800-3,000+ tok/s on open models.",
      "offering": "Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek distills, GPT-OSS. No proprietary frontier models and no custom-model uploads.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "~$0.10-6 per Mtok depending on model ($0.35/M cheapest input). Pay-as-you-go and enterprise tiers.",
      "standout": "Fastest inference benchmarked by Artificial Analysis.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "1M tokens/day, no credit card.",
      "homeUrl": "https://cerebras.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://cerebras.ai/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://cerebras.ai/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "SambaNova",
      "slug": "sambanova",
      "category": "custom-silicon",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Custom-silicon (RDU) inference platform (SambaCloud) purpose-built for agentic inference.",
      "offering": "Fast serving of large open models (Llama, DeepSeek 671B, Qwen, MiniMax) with a three-tier memory architecture.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "Pay-per-token; rates listed on the SambaCloud plans page.",
      "standout": "Benchmarked by Artificial Analysis as among the fastest for large models (MiniMax M2.7 at 435 tok/s). Strong sovereign-AI and on-prem story.",
      "openAICompatible": true,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://sambanova.ai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://cloud.sambanova.ai/plans",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.sambanova.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://cloud.sambanova.ai/plans",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "CoreWeave",
      "slug": "coreweave",
      "category": "gpu-compression-niche",
      "region": "US",
      "summary": "Specialized GPU hyperscaler (neocloud), Kubernetes-native, for AI training and inference at scale.",
      "offering": "Rents NVIDIA A100, H100, H200, GB200/B200, GB300. Per-second billing, no egress fees; spot and reserved available.",
      "pricingModel": "per-gpu-hour",
      "representativePricing": "8x H100 node ~$49.24/hr (~$6.16/GPU/hr); single GPUs from ~$1.19/hr (A100 PCIe) to $10.50/hr (B200 NVL).",
      "standout": "Roughly 40-60% cheaper than hyperscalers for equivalent GPUs; customers include OpenAI, Mistral, Jane Street. Often 8-GPU minimums.",
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://coreweave.com",
      "pricingUrl": "https://coreweave.com/pricing",
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.coreweave.com",
      "sourceUrl": "https://coreweave.com/pricing",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "CompactifAI (Multiverse Computing)",
      "slug": "compactifai",
      "category": "gpu-compression-niche",
      "region": "Spain",
      "summary": "Quantum-inspired model-compression company that shrinks open LLMs up to 95% via tensor networks.",
      "offering": "Serves compressed Slim models via API and the AWS/Azure marketplaces. HyperNova 60B (from gpt-oss-120b), compressed Llama/DeepSeek/Mistral.",
      "pricingModel": "per-token",
      "representativePricing": "HyperNova 60B $0.04/$0.14 per Mtok; Llama 3.3 70B Slim ~$0.15/$0.31 per Mtok.",
      "standout": "Claims compressed models beat their base models on speed and cost, runnable on edge devices down to Raspberry Pi. Raised a 189M euro Series B (June 12, 2025).",
      "openAICompatible": false,
      "freeTier": "",
      "homeUrl": "https://multiversecomputing.com/compactifai",
      "pricingUrl": "https://multiversecomputing.com/compactifai/api",
      "docsUrl": "https://multiversecomputing.com/compactifai/api",
      "sourceUrl": "https://multiversecomputing.com/compactifai/api",
      "verifiedDate": "2026-06-28",
      "status": "representative",
      "note": "States up to 95% compression with only 2-3% precision loss (vendor claim)."
    }
  ]
}