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GetCheapAI is a price comparison site for AI APIs sold by third-party platforms, API relays and resellers. We continuously track model prices and availability across these platforms, in 9 languages. Most visitors are developers comparing API prices and getting ready to buy.

This page describes the partnership options and placement rules. Traffic data, past campaign results and pricing for each option are not published on this page. If you're interested, please contact us.

What Never Changes

Whichever option you choose, the following always holds:

Payment only affects where a platform or ad is displayed; it never changes any pricing or availability data
Lists on model detail pages are always sorted by price; the only exception is Premium Sponsor, which is pinned to the first row and carries a "Premium Sponsor" badge
The "Popular" badge is assigned independently by us based on platform activity. It is unrelated to any paid option and cannot be bought
Which placements are affected by payment is stated plainly on this page and in our Listing Criteria

1. Platform Listing

Basic Listing

A one-time fee. All we need is the platform's domain; no referral commission is required.

After listing, we keep tracking the platform's prices, and it appears in the platform directory with its own detail page
For 30 days after listing, a "New" badge appears next to its name
On model detail pages it sits in the collapsed list, visible after users check "Show all platforms". To be included in the default list, see the next section

Besides paid listings, we may also list platforms on our own initiative if they meet our listing criteria.

Default List on Model Detail Pages

The default list shows up to 8 platforms at a time, sorted by lowest price from low to high; the remaining platforms are in the collapsed list, visible after users check "Show all platforms". When the price board on the home page shows the lowest price and platform for popular models, it picks only from the default lists on model detail pages, and platforms tied on price are shown side by side.

To enter the default list through a commercial partnership (including Prepaid Placement and Premium Sponsor), a platform must provide a referral commission through our affiliate link (calculated on top-up amounts, valid for life, settled monthly). Platforms we list on our own initiative are evaluated under our listing criteria, and this requirement does not apply to them.

Prepaid Placement: Prepay a referral commission each month, and the platform is guaranteed to stay in the default list that month. The prepayment counts directly toward that month's commission: if the actual commission at month end exceeds the prepayment, the difference is settled as usual; if it falls short, nothing is refunded. Platforms buying Prepaid Placement still need to pay the Basic Listing fee
Platforms without Prepaid Placement: Whether they appear in the default list is decided by us based on platform activity and adjusted regularly, with no guarantee. See Listing Criteria for how we evaluate
For platforms that stay in the default list, we will gradually add availability monitoring free of charge

When all slots are taken, Prepaid Placement purchases queue in order of payment and move in one by one as slots open up.

Premium Sponsor

Limited to 1 platform. The referral commission is prepaid monthly and settled the same way as Prepaid Placement. For that month, the platform is pinned to the first row of the list on the detail page of every model it sells, does not take part in price sorting, and carries a "Premium Sponsor" badge.

Platform Directory Ranking

Available to listed platforms only. The platform directory is the main page users browse to choose a platform. The top three spots under the default sort can be purchased monthly, with different prices for different positions.

This applies only under the default "Recommended" sort; it has no effect when users switch to another sort.

2. Header Ads

Any type of site can advertise here; it doesn't have to be a listed platform or an API relay. The three placements below are sold separately, and all sit above the fold, to the right of the main page heading:

Home page: to the right of the "Which relay is cheapest today?" heading
Model detail pages: to the right of the model name (detail pages of all models)
Official subscriptions page: to the right of the "Official subscriptions: where are they cheapest" heading

Placement rules:

Display: When the browser window is 1280 pixels wide or more, the ad appears to the right of the heading at 400×100. In narrower windows (phones, tablets, and laptops with narrower windows) it appears below the heading, scaled proportionally to the width, up to 400 wide
Creative:
- Image 800×200 (4:1 aspect ratio, no smaller than 600×150), PNG / JPG / WebP, up to 100 KB
- An "Ad" badge sits in the bottom-left corner of the image. It has a fixed size and doesn't scale with the image, so on phones it covers a larger share of it: please don't put important text in the bottom-left corner (within the bottom 30% of the height and the left 15% of the width). The badge text changes with the site language and is wider in Russian, Vietnamese and Portuguese, so if you target these languages, please leave the left 25% of the width clear
- Image alt text: up to 20 characters, where a full-width character (Chinese, Japanese or Korean) or an emoji counts as 1 and letters, digits, spaces and punctuation count as 0.5 (i.e. up to 40 characters of English text, spaces included). It is shown in place of the image if the image fails to load, and is read aloud by screen readers
- Destination link
Targeting: Run in all languages, or only in specific languages
Exclusivity: Each placement shows only 1 ad at a time. If an ad is already running, new ones queue in order of payment and go live one after another as the previous one expires
Going live and ending: Changes take effect automatically at the agreed time. Visitors see the change when they open or refresh a page after that time (based on the visitor's device clock; visitors already on a page at that moment will see it only after refreshing or moving to another page)

3. Footer Ads

Any type of site can advertise here; it doesn't have to be a listed platform or an API relay. Billed monthly.

Location: Above the footer on every page of the site (including the home page). Readers can click "Hide ads" to temporarily collapse the whole ad area. This applies only to the current browser tab (it carries over when the tab is duplicated or the browser restores the previous session); tabs opened manually afterwards show the ads as usual
Creative:
- Image 800×250 (16:5 aspect ratio, no smaller than 640×200), PNG / JPG / WebP, up to 200 KB; please don't put important text within 3% of the edges
- Title: up to 12 characters (a full-width Chinese, Japanese or Korean character or an emoji counts as 1; letters, digits, spaces and punctuation count as 0.5, i.e. up to 24 characters of English text, spaces included). The "Ad" badge is wider in Russian, Vietnamese and Portuguese, leaving less room for the title, so titles in these languages should be 16 letters or fewer; longer titles get truncated on narrower screens
- Description: up to 30 characters (counted the same way as the title, i.e. up to 60 characters of English text, spaces included)
- Destination link
Targeting: Run in all languages, or only in specific languages
Order: Up to 4 ads are shown at a time, in one row on desktop and stacked top to bottom on mobile, with earlier ads placed first

4. Terms

Monthly options are discounted for longer commitments; see the full proposal for details
If a platform disappears, stays unavailable for a long time, engages in model adulteration or similar, we reserve the right to remove it, and monthly fees and prepaid commission already paid are refunded pro rata for the remaining time; one-time listing fees are non-refundable, and bonus months given as a discount are not counted toward refunds
If a partner ends the partnership early on its own initiative, fees already paid are non-refundable
Ad creatives are subject to our review. We do not accept illegal or non-compliant content, pornography, gambling, fraud, infringement and the like; our review decision is final
Payment methods: USDT transfer, or US bank transfer (ACH)

Contact Us

If you're interested, please contact us and we'll send you the full proposal, including traffic data and pricing.