Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  OpenAI |  Anthropic (Claude API) |  Google Gemini API |
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| Free tier | Not listed | Trial credits New users receive a small amount of free credits to test the API. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes Free of charge on Flash and Flash-Lite models and Gemma 4; free-tier content is used to improve products. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Starting price | $2 per 1M input tokens GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Sol; $10 per 1M output tokens (GPT-6 Luna from $0.10 input). Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| $2 per 1M input tokens Claude Sonnet 5.5; $10 per 1M output tokens (Haiku 5.5 from $0.10 input). Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| $0.10 per 1M input tokens Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite standard text input, $0.40 output; cheapest paid standard rate on the page. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Rate limit | 5,000 requests/min Build tier ($5 in total credit purchases), GPT-6 Sol; 1,000,000 tokens/min. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 4,000 requests/min Start tier, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2M input, 400K output tokens/min); new orgs may start lower. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| Size limit | 1.05M token context GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 1M token context Claude Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5; 128K max output. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 1M token context Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,048,576 input tokens, 65,536 output tokens. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Storage | 1 GB free File search storage, then $0.10 per GB per day. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Official SDKs | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript.NETJavaGoRubySource, Nov 15, 2026 | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript |
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| Trains on your data | No API data is not used for training unless you explicitly opt in. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Inputs and outputs from the Anthropic API are not used for training by default. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Paid tier prompts and responses are not used to improve products; free tier data is. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | Yes Europe (EEA + Switzerland) data residency via eu.api.openai.com for eligible orgs; image support needs approval. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Inference geo is only us or global; workspace (storage) geo is only us. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes EU multi-region endpoints via Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), not AI Studio. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAASource, Nov 15, 2026 | SOC 2ISO 27001HIPAASource, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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