OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock, Together, Groq — compare API providers on pricing, latency, and features.
Five passes over the same idea, each from a different angle. Do them in order, or jump to whichever you need.
The LLM API landscape includes direct providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), cloud-hosted (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI), and inference-as-a-service (Together, Groq, Fireworks). Key comparison axes: model selection, pricing, rate limits, SLA, data residency, content policies, and SDK quality.