From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's most capable model with three modes, 400K context, and record-setting professional benchmarks - but speed and pricing raise questions.
OpenRouter routes your API calls to 300+ models across every major provider through a single endpoint. We benchmark its routing, latency overhead, pricing, and reliability against direct API access.
Google's cheapest Gemini model pairs a 1M-token context window with $0.10/$0.40 per million token pricing, multimodal input, and 359 tokens/second throughput for high-volume production workloads.
OpenAI's budget API workhorse pairs 128K context with $0.15/$0.60 per million token pricing, solid coding benchmarks, and the broadest third-party ecosystem of any small model.
A detailed comparison of Qwen3.5-Flash and DeepSeek V3.2 API pricing, benchmarks, and tradeoffs - flat-rate simplicity versus cache-dependent discounts in the budget AI tier.
