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Leaving a provider? Here’s the field

Each guide below takes one provider, states the specific reasons people move off it, and ranks the alternatives against those reasons — several of which are not us, because the right answer genuinely depends on which reason is yours. Every guide also has a section on when not to move at all.

If you already have us and one rival in mind, the head-to-head comparisons answer the narrower question better.

How these guides are built

  • Each guide starts from the reasons people actually leave that provider — a fee, a latency cost, a missing category — and orders the alternatives against those reasons rather than against us. Where the reason is one we do not answer well, we are not first.
  • Every option carries a stated trade-off. An option listed with no cost attached is a recommendation wearing a survey's clothes, and it is the tell that the page was written to sell rather than to inform.
  • Every competitor fact comes from one maintained file, dated and checked, so the same number appears identically on every page that cites it. Two providers here publish no per-token rates at all; the guides say that rather than filling the gap with a figure from memory.
  • Each guide ends with when not to move. Migration has a real cost, and for several of the reasons people cite, staying put is the correct answer — a page that cannot say so is not a survey.
  • What we are is narrow on purpose: open-weight models only, seven of twenty-four catalogued models callable today, no closed frontier models and no multi-provider failover. If your reason for leaving is any of those, the right destination on that guide is somebody else.

Which page type answers your question

Three different questions get three different page types here, and reading the wrong one wastes your time rather than ours. This set answers “I am leaving X, what is out there”. The head-to-head comparisons answer “it is us or X, which one” — 10 providers, each with a section written in their favour, because a table where one side wins every row is recognisable as marketing before the second row. The model comparisons answer a question about the models themselves rather than about who hosts them.

If the decision is really about workload rather than vendor, the use-case pages price a stated monthly volume for each job — that is usually the faster route to an answer than any provider comparison, because the model choice moves the bill more than the host does. For the vocabulary underneath all of it, the glossary defines the terms these pages price, and the engineering blog covers the migrations in longer form.

6 provider guides