How many requests per dollar?

Xiaomi publishes both a pay-as-you-go API and four subscription tiers. The same model (MiMo V2.5) costs different amounts per token depending on how you buy it. The plan-vs-API gap explains the cross-provider "Best" pills above. Figures are at MiMo V2.5's typical shape (830 fresh + 71,500 cached + 295 output tokens). Token Plan pricing, API pricing.

At list price, Xiaomi's own tiers charge 87–105% of the Xiaomi API ratefor MiMo V2.5 — Lite and Standard actually cost more than raw API; only Pro (−6%) and Max (−13%) beat it. OpenCode Go and ClinePass resell the same model at ~17% of API cost (~$60 of usage for ~$10), which is why they top the Req / $1 column. The $5–$88 signup prices are a first-month promo that renews at list.

MiniMax publishes pay-as-you-go API rates and three Token Plan tiers that deduct from one quota pool at exactly those list prices. The tiers don't charge different per-token rates — the value gap is in the budget: each tier's credit allowance covers several times its price in API-equivalent usage. Figures are at the M3 typical shape (850 fresh + 49,000 cached + 160 output tokens). Token Plan pricing, Pay-as-you-go pricing.

All three tiers price M3 at ~15–18% of the pay-as-you-go rate — the value is in the budget, not the rate: each tier covers several times its price in API-equivalent usage (~$112 / ~$336 / ~$825 for $20 / $50 / $120). Two caveats: MiniMax publishes no numeric quotas (the pool is shared with image, speech and music), and the real ceiling is a 5-hour rolling + weekly window, so the monthly figures overstate burst capacity.

Z.AI sells GLM-5.2 two ways: the GLM Coding Plan (a flat weekly credit budget) and its API, which OpenCode Go resells at the API list price ($1.40 / $4.40 / $0.26 per M tokens). The plan's credits can be valued against that API rate, which is what the numbers below do — the per-request costs are amortized at GLM-5.2's typical shape (700 fresh + 52,000 cached + 150 output tokens). Z.AI GLM Coding Plan docs.

Go's flat $10 buys ~$60 of GLM-5.2 usage (6× headroom) versus ~$67–$939 for the GLM Coding Plan's $18–$168 — so Go leads per dollar, but Max is within 7%. Two caveats: credits run on a rolling weekly window with a 5-hour burst cap and never roll over, and off-peak hours (Mon–Fri 14:00–18:00 SGT) bill at 50% — roughly doubling requests then — which isn't modeled.

Nous Portal resells OpenRouter models at 0.8× the OpenRouter list price (verified against the current list on /info), billed against a monthly credit grant with a +10% bonus: $20 → $22, $100 → $110, $200 → $220. The exception is GPT-5.6 Luna, where a limited-time -50% promo puts the Portal at half the post-repricing $0.20/$1.20 list (verified 2026-08-08). The example below amortizes each plan's subscription over its grant at GPT-5.6 Luna's typical shape (1,000 fresh + 50,000 cached + 220 output tokens) — a shape where OpenCode Go happens to charge 1× the list. Manage subscription, /info prices, API docs.

Nous Portal resells OpenRouter models at 0.8× list against a monthly grant with a +10% bonus. On most models that roughly cancels out the resellers' bundles — but wherever Go charges above list (GPT-5.6 Luna at 1×), Portal wins outright (~1,500 vs ~1,000 req/$). Caveats: cached-read pricing is estimated (0.8× the cache rate), and unused credits roll over ($10–$100 by tier), which the monthly math ignores.

QwenCloud publishes two distinct prices for the same models: a PAYG rate and a Token Plan rate where credits are deducted from a 7-day window budget (Lite 700/2,500 · Standard 3,000/10,000 · Pro 12,000/40,000 credits per 5h/7d). The docs only say the Token Plan uses "tiered deduction coefficients by model" and refer you to the subscriber console for the actual numbers — there is no public per-model credit table — so the calculator uses the published PAYG rates as a proxy. The table below shows the worked example for Qwen3.7-Plus on the Lite plan at the Grok shape (1,100 fresh + 71,500 cached + 220 output tokens):

QwenCloud doesn't publish per-token credit costs for the Token Plan, so we estimate them from the public pay-as-you-go rates ($0.006512/req at this shape) — absolute Req / $1 figures (marked ~) carry a ~3–4× uncertainty, though relative comparisons hold. The 5h and 7d quotas are hard ceilings, unused credits don't roll over, and the preview-model capacity boost isn't modeled.