Editorial policy

Who maintains TokenCost

TokenCost is maintained by an independent editorial team focused entirely on LLM API pricing and performance data. We are not a model provider, we do not sell inference, and we have no commercial relationship with any provider whose pricing we display. The site runs as a focused, single-purpose reference rather than a general tech blog, which is why every page here traces back to a live pricing or benchmark figure.

How the data is produced

We don’t hand-type or re-key any of the pricing, benchmark, speed, or price-history figures shown on this site — every one comes from an automated daily pipeline against a named third-party source. The full technical breakdown, including exactly which fields are normalized and how the price-change log is built, is on our methodology page.

Original commentary vs. sourced data

It matters which parts of this site are our own analysis and which are third-party data reproduced with attribution. The pricing tables, benchmark scores, speed figures, and price-change log are sourced data, clearly attributed to their origin. The guides, provider pricing write-ups, and interpretive text throughout the tool pages — including the cost-vs-quality and value-frontier analysis — are original commentary written by the TokenCost editorial team, built from, but not copied from, the underlying data.

Corrections

If a price, model detail, or benchmark figure looks wrong, tell us through the contact page. We check every report against the live source before making a change, and we’d rather be told about an error than have it sit uncorrected. Because pricing is refreshed automatically, most staleness issues self-correct on the next scheduled run — reported errors are typically a mismatch we need to fix in how a figure is parsed or normalized, not a one-off typo.

Independence, no vendor bias, and advertising

TokenCost is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any model provider, and we do not accept payment for placement, ranking, or favorable treatment of any model. Sort orders, "cheapest" rankings, and benchmark leaderboards are all computed directly from the underlying numbers — there is no manual curation that favors one provider over another. The tools are free to use; the site is supported by display advertising (Google AdSense), which is entirely separate from the data and rankings shown and has no influence over them. All figures are for planning purposes only and are not billing, financial, or professional advice.

Editorial update policy

Guides and provider write-ups are dated with their real publish date and revised when the underlying guidance changes materially — a revision updates the page’s date rather than silently replacing the content. See methodology for how often the underlying pricing and benchmark data itself refreshes.

Questions

Reach us any time through the contact page — for corrections, questions about methodology, or feedback on the guides.