Guides and pricing analysis for DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and Qwen — written by the team behind the Bridge AI API gateway.
Real pricing, context windows and a decision guide for the four majors — all behind one OpenAI-compatible key.
Adjust requests, prompt size and cache-hit rate; see monthly costs with production pricing. Free, no signup.
DeepSeek's August 2026 peak/off-peak pricing pushed peak-hour input to ¥9 per 1M tokens. Compare official vs Bridge pricing, and see how cache hits change the math.
GLM-5.2 official pricing vs Bridge, how to call it from your existing OpenAI SDK, and why cache hits cut your bill by 90%.
Kimi K3's long context makes it an agent favorite — but official pricing is steep. Here's the comparison and a working Python example.
Self-hosted open weights mean latency and price advantages for high-volume workloads. What that means in practice, with benchmarks.
The plain-English explainer: direct API vs gateway vs router, and the five things a gateway actually does.
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