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Ranked by blended API price (75% input + 25% output, USD per 1M tokens). Free promotional listings excluded.

Ranked by blended API price (75% input + 25% output, USD per 1M tokens). Free promotional listings excluded. Source: OpenRouter. Variants (reasoning effort, batch) are folded into one row.

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