Claude Max 5x
AnthropicThe hundred dollar Max tier is the working default for daily agentic coding on Claude.
$100.00 / month
Anthropic plan pricing ↗The shortlist
A few picks in each category and one reason for each: the subscription, the API, the open model, and the box we would buy today. The leaderboard and price pages hold the whole field when you want to dig.
Open the plannerFor an individual, a flat monthly plan usually beats buying the same traffic at API rates. Twenty dollars of plan buys far more inference than twenty dollars of tokens.
The hundred dollar Max tier is the working default for daily agentic coding on Claude.
$100.00 / month
Anthropic plan pricing ↗Twenty times the Pro allowance for the weeks when the agents never sleep.
$200.00 / month
Anthropic plan pricing ↗Maximum Codex tasks that would cost thousands a month at API rates, and the top OpenAI tier still open to new subscribers.
$100.00 / month
ChatGPT plan pricing ↗The biggest Kimi Code quota, with open-weight K3 behind it keeping the exit door open.
$159.00 / month
Kimi Code plans ↗GLM-5.3 at fourteen times Lite usage for well under the frontier plan prices.
$117.60 / month
Z.ai subscription plans ↗The tool you live in matters as much as the model. These are the four we reach for.
The reference terminal agent for a Claude plan.
Included in every paid Claude plan (Pro $20/month, Max from $100/month, Team, Enterprise), or pay per token with Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Foundry credentials.
Product site ↗Open source, fast, and the natural pair for a ChatGPT plan.
Included with ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise sign-in, or billed per token with an OpenAI API key.
Source repo ↗The default editor that almost everything else plugs into.
Editor is free; built-in chat works with your own provider keys or local models, or with a GitHub Copilot plan.
Source repo ↗One control surface over whichever provider agents you already run.
Free control surface; you pay for whichever provider CLIs you already run.
Source repo ↗When you do pay per token, these six cover the field from cheap bulk work to the strongest thing money buys.
The top of the independent index right now, at less than half the price of Claude Fable 5.1. Start here for work that has to be right.
$4.00 in / $20.00 out per 1M tokens
Claude API pricing ↗OpenAI’s middle tier: about 90% of GPT-6 Astra’s index score at a fifth of the price.
$2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M tokens
OpenAI API pricing ↗The cheap multimodal generalist the planner keeps picking on its own, at ten cents per million input tokens. In our own evals its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Luna, matched GPT-5.6 Sol on the hardest question class.
$0.10 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens
OpenAI API pricing ↗Open weights at frontier scale, so the hosted route never locks you in.
$3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M tokens
Kimi API pricing ↗The current GLM flagship, priced under the western frontier tiers.
$1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M tokens
Z.ai model pricing ↗The inexpensive default when agents and batch jobs burn tokens by the hundred million.
$0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M tokens
DeepSeek API pricing ↗Hosts are where tokens leave the building. A speed specialist, a universal key, and the gateway we would build on.
The speed play: open models served faster than anyone else runs them.
Positions on wafer-scale chips for very high tokens-per-second on supported models.
Pricing ↗One key across nearly every backend that matters.
Pricing ↗Pass-through pricing behind one gateway, living where the deploys already happen.
Pricing ↗Buy the smallest box that runs the local models you care about, and let capacity buy privacy at scale.
The capacity appliance the local half of this site is built around.
~$5,000.00
VideoCardz DGX Spark pricing report ↗Ninety-six gigabytes at consumer-flagship bandwidth for a serious local lab.
~$20,000.00
videocardprices.com RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell tracker ↗The fast local default when your models fit in 32 GB.
~$8,000.00
videocardprices.com RTX 5090 tracker ↗Video stays optional. One route for quality, one cheap enough to draft with all day.
The quality pick per second among the hosted video routes.
$0.57 per second of 1080p
BytePlus ModelArk pricing ↗Cheap enough per second to draft with, good enough to ship.
$0.08 per second of 1080p
MiniMax pay-as-you-go pricing ↗Quick starts
Match open models to a machine’s memory and bandwidth before you buy the tower. The hardware guide sizes every model in this list against every machine.
Open the hardware guide