Decision API pricing compared: OpenAI, Jev, Clef and more
Decision APIs answer yes/no, choice and score questions with probabilities and bill input tokens only. Hosted list prices run from $0.01 per 1M input tokens (Perplexity pplx-decider-flash) to $0.24 (Cloudflare Clef); the OpenAI Decisions API is $0.10, and Jev and Microsoft-Decision-1 are $0.042. Each price links to the vendor page with the date we checked it. Looking for free tools instead? See free APIs and MCP servers for AI agents.
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OpenRouter Armor
OpenRouter · Guardrail / tool-call policy
Armor evaluation is not billed during the beta. OpenRouter says pricing will be announced before general availability. Normal model inference is still billed.
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OpenAI Decisions API
OpenAI · Decision model
$0.10 per 1M uncached input tokens; output tokens not charged.
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Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft (Foundry) · Decision model
$0.042 per 1M input tokens; output $0 (OpenRouter listing, provider Azure). Vercel AI Gateway lists the same $0.042.
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Vercel AI Gateway — Decisions endpoint
Vercel · Gateway / proxy
No markup and no platform fee on tokens: you pay the provider’s list price (also with your own key). Per-request cost is reported in response metadata; the docs’ example shows $0.10 per 1M for openai/gpt-6-luna-decisions, matching OpenAI’s list price.
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Jev (TypeSafe AI)
TypeSafe AI · Decision model
$0.042 per 1M input tokens ($42 per billion) for both Jev 1.14 and 1.13; output tokens free. Long-context mode costs the same per token. OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway list the same $0.042.
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Cloudflare Clef (Clef, Clef-flash, Clef-omni)
Cloudflare (Workers AI) · Decision model
Clef $0.240, Clef-omni $0.150, Clef-flash $0.038 per 1M input tokens; no output-token charge. Media are converted to input tokens.
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21 morePerplexity Decisions API (pplx-decider)
$0.02 per 1M input tokens on pplx-decider-v1.2 and $0.01 on pplx-decider-flash-v1.2; output tokens free; no per-request fee. State, questions, and images count as input. In Perplexity’s tests an image cost about 1,000 input tokens per megapixel.
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Inception Mercury Decide
Input listed as $0.04 → $0.02 per 1M tokens (shown as a 50%-off promotion); cached input and output $0.
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Liquid AI d1
$0.02 per 1M input tokens (cached input also $0.02), $0 output, for d1 on Liquid’s pricing page. New orgs get $2 free credit on Liquid Console.
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Strands Decider 2B (open source)
Free open weights (Apache-2.0); you pay your own compute.
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AWS Bedrock Guardrails
Content filters (text) $0.15 per 1,000 text units; denied topics $0.15/1k; sensitive-info filters $0.10/1k; regex and word filters free; contextual grounding $0.10/1k; Automated Reasoning checks $0.17/1k per policy; image content filter $0.00075/image. A text unit is up to 1,000 characters.
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Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane (formerly Azure AI Content Safety)
Free (F0) tier: 5,000 text records/month and 5,000 images/month; usage stops at the limit. A text record is up to 1,000 characters.
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Gemini structured output (Vertex AI / Agent Platform)
Per-token Gemini pricing; for example Gemini 3.8 Flash is $0.75 / $3.75 per 1M input/output tokens (introductory, through 2026-12-31), then $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01 (non-global endpoints cost 10% more). The response schema counts toward the input token limit.
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Anthropic Claude (tool use / structured outputs)
Per 1M input/output tokens: Haiku 5.5 $0.10/$0.50 (prompts up to 100k); Haiku 4.5 $1/$5; Sonnet 5.5 $2/$10; Opus 5.5 $4/$20; Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic’s top model for demanding reasoning) $10/$50. US-only inference_geo costs 1.1x; Batch is 50% off. Anthropic says structured outputs work on every model.
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OpenAI Moderation (omni-moderation)
Free.
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Cohere Classify
No Classify price found. cohere.com/pricing does not list Classify (it lists Model Vault instances and legacy Command/Aya token prices). Trial keys are free but rate limited and not for production.
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Laya (open source)
Free open weights (Apache-2.0); you pay your own compute.
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llama.cpp decision endpoint (/v1/systemone)
Free and open source; you pay your own compute. Check each model’s license (OpenJev is CC BY-NC 4.0, non-commercial).
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DeepSeek Search & Fetch API
Search $0.75 and Fetch $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests. Only HTTP 200 responses with a result are billed: empty searches, failed fetches and timeouts are free, and count does not change the price. Charges come out of your topped-up or granted balance.
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Liquid AI d1-ultra
$0.042 per 1M input tokens, cached input $0.042, output $0. Liquid says the price is the same on Liquid Console, OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway; new Liquid Console organizations get $2 free credit.
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H2O-Lightning-4B (open source)
Free open weights (Apache-2.0); you pay your own GPU. Each decision is one forward pass and one output token, so cost is input tokens only. The $0.021 per 1,000 decisions estimate we quoted on Oct 16 is no longer on the model card.
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LLM Gateway — Decisions
Jev 1.13: $0.042 per 1M input tokens, output free. Prices for the other decision models on the gateway were not checked.
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Articul8 Bivia
$0.042 per 1M input tokens, $0 output tokens.
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Nace.AI Drex (Drex Max)
Drex Max and Drex Max v1.1: $0.03 per 1M input tokens. Output tokens are not billed. No per-request or per-question fee. Drex 2.0 is $0.06 and Drex 1.5 is $0.05 per 1M input tokens.
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Mistral Responses API
No separate Responses price: you pay the model’s API token price. Example: mistral-large-4 $0.70 per 1M input, $0.07 cached input, $2.10 output.
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Cartesia Managed Agents
Voice agents at a standard $0.03 a minute, paid from prepaid agent dollars: Free plan $1/month (about 33 minutes), Startup $49/month, Scale $299/month includes $299 for agents. Enterprise custom.
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Phonic-1 (speech-to-speech)
Starter $0.07/min, no minimum. Pro $0.065/min with a $200 monthly minimum (about 3,100 minutes). Enterprise custom. No LLM pass-through or per-token charges.
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