
GPT-5.2
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.
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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.

A data-driven comparison of Qwen3.5-Flash and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite - two models at the exact same $0.10/$0.40 per million token price point with 1M context windows but very different performance profiles.

A detailed comparison of Qwen3.5-Flash and GPT-4o mini covering benchmarks, pricing, context windows, and ecosystem - the new open-source challenger versus OpenAI's entrenched budget API.

Qwen3.5-Flash is Alibaba's hosted production model with 1M context, built-in tools, and multimodal support at $0.10/M input tokens - one of the cheapest frontier-tier APIs available.

A comprehensive comparison of 20+ free AI inference providers - from Google AI Studio and Groq to OpenRouter and Cerebras. Rate limits, model access, quotas, and how to get started.

OpenAI o4-mini is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model in the o-series, delivering near-o3 performance on math and coding benchmarks at roughly 10x lower cost.

OpenAI's coding-optimized API model with a 1M token context window, 54.6% SWE-bench Verified score, and $2/$8 per million token pricing.