llm inference providers

who to buy open-weight model tokens from, ranked on the price of the model you actually want, what they'll admit that price is, and whether they carry the model at all.

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Novita AI

we checked this$0.135 / 1m in

near-cheapest prices with the full frontier catalogue behind them, and a batch discount the cheap rivals don't offer.

#most-teams-it-s-within-a#it-actually-carries-what

DeepInfra

we checked this$0.10 / 1m in

the cheapest tokens in the category by a distance — with no glm models at all.

#high-volume-workloads-on#deepseek-where-the-model#the-bill-is-the-problem

Fireworks AI

we checked this$0.14 / 1m in

the most legible pricing in the category, and the cheapest route to a frontier deepseek by a wide margin.

#teams-who-want-the-front#caching-spelled-out-befo

Together AI

we checked this$1.04 / 1m in

every deployment shape from serverless to your own gpu cluster — at the highest llama price on this list.

#teams-who-expect-to-grad

Groq

we checked this$0.59 / 1m in

the only vendor here that prints tokens-per-second next to the price — on a catalogue of five models.

#latency-sensitive-produc#want-the-speed-number-in

this page is deliberately short: a handful of llm inference providers we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.

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