LLM API Pricing Comparison: KeyoAPI vs Official List Rates

This LLM API pricing comparison (and broader AI API price comparison) page puts KeyoAPI sell rates next to typical official list bands for GPT-class, Claude-class, DeepSeek, Whisper, and vision APIs — useful when you want one prepaid key without juggling five vendor invoices.

This comparison page is a rate benchmark for KeyoAPI, a prepaid AI API gateway: one Bearer key and one wallet ($1 = 500,000 quota units) cover chat, speech, vision, OCR and video models, so the deltas below translate directly into invoice math.

Get started in five steps

1. Create an account — new users receive $10 of gift credit for prototyping.
2. Create an API key in the console.
3. Point your OpenAI SDK at https://www.keyoapi.xyz/v1 with the model ID from this page, or call the dedicated REST path from the API handbook.
4. Track spend in the console Wallet — $1 equals 500,000 quota units, and gift credit burns before recharged balance.
5. Set a per-key spending cap before wiring production traffic.

A verified first call is the acceptance test for the setup: the response should carry the payload shape documented in the handbook, the Wallet ledger should show a deduction in quota units (500,000 units = $1), and repeated calls should deduct linearly at the listed rate. Any mismatch usually means the model ID or endpoint is wrong — check both against the pricing list before debugging client code.

Figures are indicative for planning. Always confirm live sell rates in Model Square or the static pricing list before contracting volume.

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Task budgets and decision routing

For explicit classification alongside a chat workflow, see Cloudflare Clef decision API. Its typed probabilities and actual-cost settlement differ from the chat token rates below.

Headline LLM API pricing comparison

Keyo LLM token rates (batch)

How to estimate API costs (no calculator app required)

For token-metered chat IDs: expected cost ≈ (input millions × input $/1M) + (output millions × output $/1M), then add retries. Pull the $/1M figures from the live pricing page or the rows on this page — do not hard-code a spreadsheet forever. Worked OpenAI-side example: the OpenAI API pricing page. Brand hubs: Claude / Anthropic, Grok, Gemini, DeepSeek.

How to use this comparison

One OpenAI-compatible SDK, one prepaid balance, and multimodal add-ons on one invoice. Swap base_url + key; keep your existing client for chat / image / speech paths.

Recommended rollout: start with deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 (~$0.02 / $0.06) or gpt-6-luna (~$0.03 / $0.15) on high-volume paths, deepseek-v4.1-flash or gpt-5.6-terra as everyday default chat, escalate to grok-4.7 or Claude-class lanes when you need denser reasoning.

Evaluating KeyoAPI as an OpenRouter alternative? The short version: both aggregate many model providers behind one API key and an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint, so migration is the same two-line change (base_url + key). KeyoAPI is prepaid-wallet billing on one invoice with gift-credit prototyping IDs (new users: $10; per invite: $3; fair-use) on the same key; OpenRouter is credit-based with per-model free tiers where offered. Compare specific lanes above before volume decisions, and confirm live rates on Model Square either way.

Related guides

• OpenAI API alternative — why switch, two-line migration, price table
• OpenAI / ChatGPT API pricing · Claude API pricing · DeepSeek API pricing
• Gift-Credit AI Models — callable with complimentary credits (new users: $10; per invite: $3)
• CosyVoice3 API · Text to Speech API · Duix Avatar

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