Pricing sources and update policy

Content generation pricing sources

Content project calculators use editable assumptions because image, video, and audio providers often price by credits, output unit, resolution, quality tier, subscription, or negotiated plan.

Policy

• Prices are shown in USD per 1 million tokens unless the page says otherwise.
• China LLM API prices are shown separately in CNY per 1 million tokens.
• Some providers use different prices for long context, batch, priority, regional, or modality-specific requests.
• Meta Llama direct API pricing is not listed because the public preview is retiring; use provider-specific Llama hosting prices instead.
• Calculator inputs are estimates and provider tokenizers may count differently.
• We do not guarantee pricing accuracy or availability of any provider/model.

How pricing data is reviewed

• Official provider pricing pages, product docs, or model billing docs are preferred over blogs, videos, screenshots, or social posts.
• Creator videos and independent guides are useful for market research, but they are not used as price sources unless they link back to official provider documentation.
• When a provider publishes both package pricing and pay-as-you-go pricing, calculators use the clearest public pay-as-you-go rate unless a page says otherwise.
• Temporary free credits, activity prices, coupons, taxes, support fees, and committed-spend discounts are excluded unless the calculator has an explicit field for them.
• Mixed-currency comparisons are avoided. CNY prices and USD prices are kept separate unless a page states the exchange-rate assumption.

Update workflow

Price-sensitive pages are checked before new model data is added and whenever a provider announces a pricing change. The repository also includes a freshness check that fails when pricing records become stale or miss required source fields.

If a provider quote, enterprise discount, or resource package differs from public pricing, use the custom contract price fields in the calculators instead of treating public list pricing as a final invoice.