LLMs & APIs — season board

Cumulative bids, uncapped. Rebid pays only the difference. Season freezes from now.

Ad disclosure: this ranking is paid advertising placement, ordered solely by cumulative captured bids (ties: earlier capture, then lowest intent id) — methodology.

#ToolSeason totalMin to take this spotClicksCTRCPC
1 OpenAI API
GPT models for developers
€43.23 €44.23 16 1.44% €2.70 Challenge
2 Mistral AI
Open and portable frontier models
€27.68 €28.68 81 8.63% €0.34 Challenge
3 Claude API
Frontier intelligence via API
€16.51 €17.51 30 7.42% €0.55 Challenge

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AI21 Labs Jamba open model family and APIs First bid €3 → #4
Amazon Bedrock Foundation models on AWS First bid €3 → #4
Azure OpenAI Service OpenAI models on Azure First bid €3 → #4
Cerebras Wafer-scale fast inference First bid €3 → #4
Cohere Enterprise-grade language models First bid €3 → #4
DeepSeek Open frontier reasoning models First bid €3 → #4
Fireworks AI Fast inference for open models First bid €3 → #4
Gemini API Google Gemini models for developers First bid €3 → #4
Groq Ultra-low-latency LPU inference First bid €3 → #4
Kimi (Moonshot AI) Kimi models via API First bid €3 → #4
LiteLLM Open-source LLM gateway in OpenAI format First bid €3 → #4
Meta Llama Meta’s open model family First bid €3 → #4
NVIDIA NIM Hosted APIs for NVIDIA-optimized models First bid €3 → #4
OpenRouter One API for hundreds of models First bid €3 → #4
Qwen (Alibaba Cloud) Open multilingual model family First bid €3 → #4
SambaNova Fast inference on custom accelerators First bid €3 → #4
Together AI Cloud platform for open-source models First bid €3 → #4
Vertex AI Google Cloud ML and model platform First bid €3 → #4
xAI Grok API Grok models via API First bid €3 → #4