{"i":12,"slug":"inference-provider-index","chart":{"id":"provider-index-spread","title":"How much more the priciest provider charges than the cheapest","subtitle":"Standard tier, blended price (3 input : 1 output), most expensive provider ÷ cheapest provider","kind":"bar","unit":"ratio","yLabel":"Most expensive ÷ cheapest","series":[{"name":"Price spread","points":{"$k":["label","value","n","highlight"],"$r":[["DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423",12.57,15,true],["DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423",11.21,15,true],["gpt-oss-120b",6.92,20,true],["Llama 3.3 70B Instruct",6.71,10,true],["GLM 5.3",4.69,32,true],["Kimi K3",1.78,19,false],["Llama 4 Maverick",1.69,3,false],["Claude Haiku 4.5",1,4,false],["Claude Sonnet 5",1,5,false],["Claude Sonnet 5.5",1,5,false],["Claude Opus 4.8",1,5,false],["Claude Opus 5",1,5,false],["Claude Opus 5.5",1,5,false],["Claude Fable 5.1",1,4,false],["GPT-6 Sol",1,2,false],["GPT-6 Luna",1,2,false],["GPT-6 Astra",1,2,false],["GPT-5.5",1,2,false],["Gemini 3.8 Flash",1,2,false],["Gemini 3.5 Flash",1,2,false],["Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite",1,2,false],["Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview",1,2,false]]}}],"note":"A calculation on prices reported by OpenRouter’s public API, snapshot 2026-10-06. n = providers with a standard-tier endpoint. 1x means every provider charges the same. Highlighted: a spread of 4x or more.","sourceIds":["openrouter-api-snapshot"]}}