Pitfalls
Practical material on AI API relay services: how rates are calculated, how to verify a model has not been downgraded, what enterprises should check before buying, and the pitfalls we ran into while measuring these services ourselves.
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Pitfalls (14 articles)
Six common tricks in cheap relay services, and how to spot each one
Not every low price is a scam, but every scam opens with a low price. These six tricks are ordered from most common to m…
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2026-09-19
How to check whether a relay service is quietly downgrading your model
Downgrading is the hardest problem to detect, because the fraudster only has to change one field. Here is a combined tes…
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2026-09-19
Supporting data & tools
The articles explain the method; the pages below give you measured data and prices to check it against. Reading them together is easier — once you know how to tell whether a rate is real, you can look the official price up in the price list.
Uptime leaderboard
Stability bands plus each service's reachability and latency over the last 30 days.
Rankings
Sorted by uptime, latency and model coverage, with the rate calculator.
Official model prices
Vendor list prices, for judging whether a quoted rate is reasonable.
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