LLM Pricing & Cost
July 21, 2026
Mistral API Pricing 2026: The Overlooked Budget Powerhouse
July 2026 Mistral API pricing for every model — text, reasoning, code, vision, voice, and OCR — up to ~90% cheaper than OpenAI and Anthropic. See the breakdown.
July 13, 2026
Google Gemini API Pricing Guide 2026: Flash, Pro, and Vertex AI
Current Google Gemini API pricing for 2026: Gemini 3 generation (3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite), what changed since 2.5, image generation with Nano Banana, and how Vertex AI costs compare.
March 11, 2026
Anthropic Claude API Pricing Guide 2026: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku Compared
Complete Anthropic Claude API pricing for March 2026. Compare Opus, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 with batch discounts, prompt caching savings, rate limits, and real-world cost breakdowns.
March 3, 2026
Fine-tuning open models in the real world: Unsloth, Axolotl, and the case for Docker
Production lessons from fine-tuning open models and why Curlscape uses Docker to ensure GPU training environments are reproducible and reliable.
February 18, 2026
OpenAI API Pricing Guide 2026: Every Model Compared
Every OpenAI API model priced and compared for 2026, from GPT-5.2 to o4 Mini. Includes real-world cost calculations for chatbots, pipelines, and more.
September 9, 2025
OpenAI vs Gemini vs Claude: Complete API Pricing Comparison (2026)
Compare API costs for OpenAI GPT-5, Google Gemini, and open-source models. See real pricing per 1M tokens, cost breakdowns for 1M document inference, and when self-hosting saves 5x.