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Only 15 of 111 Chinese AI models price per token - that breaks every cheapest comparison

I set out to build a simple thing: a table that answers "which Chinese AI model is cheapest for this task". It took about a day to discover the question is malformed. Of the 111 models I normalised, only 15 charge per token . The rest charge per image, per generation, or a flat rate per call. Compa…

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  1. 2026-11-03 10:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Only 15 of 111 Chinese AI models price per token - that breaks every cheapest comparison

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