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7/13/2026
Direct AI provider APIs vs aggregators: cost comparison and routing architecture

Direct AI provider APIs vs aggregators: cost comparison and routing architecture

Original: I Tested Direct Provider APIs vs Aggregators — Here's the Truth

Short summary

A founder compares direct AI provider API costs against aggregator pricing across growth stages, finding 97.5% savings using DeepSeek V4 Flash via an aggregator versus GPT-4o direct. Includes a practical Python router implementation for task-based model selection across cheap, balanced, and premium tiers.

  • •Direct GPT-4o at $10/M tokens vs aggregator DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.25/M — 97.5% savings at every scale
  • •Includes 80-line Python router for task-specific model tier selection
  • •Author promotes global-apis.com as the aggregator, creating self-promotion bias

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