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AI Pricing & Model Benchmark 2026

AI Tool and Model Pricing in the Philippines 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and More, Compared

A plain comparison of AI subscriptions and API model prices for Filipino users, developers, and teams, in pesos, including the China models, plus our benchmark for how well each one actually handles Filipino work.

Joshua Pielago

Sydney, Australia

Updated Jun 26, 2026 · 13 min read

This is the deep-dive companion to our main guide. If you are new to AI, start there: AI in the Philippines 2026 covers what to use and how to begin. This page is for when you are deciding what to pay for, which model to use, or what to build on. For a step back on what AI has actually changed here, read the impact of AI in the Philippines so far. To compare every tool and model side by side with live pricing, use our AI tools and models directory, and if the difference between a tool and a model is still fuzzy, start with AI tools vs AI models.

Prices last checked 2026-06-26 · USD per 1M tokens · ₱61.55/$1 · always confirm at checkout or in the provider console.

A monthly subscription and a token bill are not the same

Most AI pricing guides are written for Silicon Valley developers. Filipino users need a clearer split, because "the ChatGPT price" can mean two completely different things.

An app subscription is what most people mean: a flat monthly fee for the app, the chat box, file uploads, higher limits, better models. API pricing is what developers and companies pay to build AI into their own products, billed per million tokens of usage. A token is a small chunk of text. You pay for what you send in and what the model sends back, so long prompts and long answers cost more.

These are not the same market, and we keep them apart on this page. If you just want to use AI, the app table below is your whole story. If you are building something, skip to the model pricing.

Two ways to pay The same model, two completely different bills

App subscription

"I just want to use AI."

  1. Pay one flat fee a month
  2. Open the app: chat, upload files, higher limits
  3. The bill is the same whether you use it once or a thousand times

What almost everyone needs

API, paid per token

"I am building AI into a product."

  1. Pay per million tokens, in and out
  2. Wire the model into your own app or workflow
  3. The bill scales with how much you use

For developers and teams

Illustrative. App subscriptions are a flat monthly fee; API pricing is per-token usage.

The peso math behind these tables

Two numbers shape every peso figure on this page. The exchange rate we use is ₱61.55 to the dollar, the BSP reference and PDS closing rate from late June 2026[18]. And the Philippines charges 12% VAT on digital services, including those from foreign providers, so your real bill is a little higher than the sticker[19]. App-store billing can differ from web billing too. Treat every figure as a close estimate and confirm the exact amount at checkout.

AI app subscriptions, in pesos

This is what normal use costs. Filter by what you need, or sort by price. For most people, one of these is all you will ever pay for.

Category
Free?
14 results
Best for Sources
Canva ✓ Free Varies Design and social media — content creators, MSMEs [12]
ChatGPT ✓ Free ₱1,231/mo~$20 General AI assistant — students, workers, freelancers [1][4]
Claude ✓ Free ₱1,231/mo~$20 Writing, long documents, coding [2][5]
ElevenLabs Limited Varies Voice and audio creation — creators, training, ads
Gemini ✓ Free Varies Google Workspace users — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Android [3][6]
GitHub Copilot Limited ₱616/mo~$10 Developers and coders [7]
Grammarly ✓ Free ₱739/mo~$12 English writing and email — daily writers, BPO, freelancers [8]
Make (formerly Integromat) Limited Varies Workflow automation — admin, ops, SMEs
Microsoft Copilot Limited Varies Corporate teams using Microsoft 365 — Office, Outlook, Teams [38]
Midjourney Paid only ₱616/mo~$10 High-quality image generation [9]
Notion AI Limited Varies Notes, team knowledge bases, documents [13]
Perplexity ✓ Free ₱1,231/mo~$20 Research with sources — writers, analysts, students [11]
Runway ✓ Free ₱2,154/mo~$35 AI video production — creative teams [10]
Zapier Limited Varies Workflow automation — admin, ops, SMEs

Prices in pesos at ₱61.55/$1, last checked 2026-06-26. Always confirm at checkout.

Reading the model tables

The next two tables are API prices, not subscriptions, shown in pesos per million tokens with the US dollar figure underneath. Input is what you send the model; output is what it sends back. Output usually costs more, sometimes a lot more, which is why a chatty model can surprise you on the bill.

Sort by input or output to see who is cheap for your shape of work. A summarizer that reads a lot and writes a little cares most about input price; a writer that generates long drafts cares about output.

Frontier models

The familiar names from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and the rest. These are the safest default for premium, customer-facing work: easy to evaluate, easy to access, and easy to explain to a non-technical team. Every row here is official provider pricing.

Provider
23 results
Sources
Aya Expanse 8B/32B Cohere ₱31/1M~$0.5 ₱92/1M~$1.5 [27]
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic ₱616/1M~$10 ₱3,078/1M~$50 [35]
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic ₱62/1M~$1 ₱308/1M~$5 [35]
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic ₱308/1M~$5 ₱1,539/1M~$25 [35]
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic ₱185/1M~$3 ₱923/1M~$15 [35]
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google ₱18/1M~$0.3 ₱154/1M~$2.5 [36]
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google ₱6/1M~$0.1 ₱25/1M~$0.4 [36]
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google ₱15/1M~$0.25 ₱92/1M~$1.5 [36]
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (>200k prompt) Google ₱246/1M~$4 ₱1,108/1M~$18 [36]
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (≤200k prompt) Google ₱123/1M~$2 ₱739/1M~$12 [36]
GPT-5.4 OpenAI ₱154/1M~$2.5 ₱923/1M~$15 [34]
GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI ₱46/1M~$0.75 ₱277/1M~$4.5 [34]
GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI ₱12/1M~$0.2 ₱77/1M~$1.25 [34]
GPT-5.5 OpenAI ₱308/1M~$5 ₱1,847/1M~$30 [34]
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI ₱1,847/1M~$30 ₱11,079/1M~$180 [34]
Grok 4.3 xAI ₱77/1M~$1.25 ₱154/1M~$2.5 [25]
Magistral Medium Mistral ₱123/1M~$2 ₱308/1M~$5 [26]
Magistral Small Mistral ₱31/1M~$0.5 ₱92/1M~$1.5 [26]
Ministral 3B Mistral ₱6/1M~$0.1 ₱6/1M~$0.1 [26]
Ministral 8B Mistral ₱9/1M~$0.15 ₱9/1M~$0.15 [26]
Sonar Perplexity ₱62/1M~$1 ₱62/1M~$1 [37]
Sonar Pro Perplexity ₱185/1M~$3 ₱923/1M~$15 [37]
Sonar Reasoning Pro Perplexity ₱123/1M~$2 ₱492/1M~$8 [37]

Prices in pesos at ₱61.55/$1, last checked 2026-06-26. Always confirm at checkout.

China models

This is the part most Filipino guides skip, and it is where the economics get interesting. DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, ERNIE and the others can be a fraction of frontier prices at scale. Read the status column carefully: some prices are official direct billing, some are international-region rates, and a few are router-listed and should be verified in the provider console before you rely on them.

Status
15 results
Price status Sources
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek ₱9/1M~$0.14 ₱17/1M~$0.28 Official [28]
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek ₱27/1M~$0.435 ₱54/1M~$0.87 Official [28]
Doubao / Seed ByteDance Varies Varies Needs verification
ERNIE 4.5 (RMB converted) Baidu ₱34/1M~$0.55 ₱135/1M~$2.2 Official [31]
ERNIE X1 (RMB converted) Baidu ₱17/1M~$0.28 ₱68/1M~$1.1 Official [31]
GLM-5.2 Z.ai / Zhipu ₱58/1M~$0.95 ₱185/1M~$3 Router-listed [33]
Hunyuan (general) Tencent Varies Varies Needs verification
Kimi K2.5 Kimi / Moonshot ₱37/1M~$0.6 ₱185/1M~$3 Official [30]
Kimi K2.6 Kimi / Moonshot ₱58/1M~$0.95 ₱246/1M~$4 Official [30]
Kimi K2.7 Code Kimi / Moonshot ₱58/1M~$0.95 ₱246/1M~$4 Official [30]
MiniMax M3 MiniMax ₱18/1M~$0.3 ₱74/1M~$1.2 Router-listed [32]
Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba Qwen ₱102/1M~$1.65 ₱305/1M~$4.951 Official [29]
Qwen3.7 Plus (Intl/Singapore, >256k) Alibaba Qwen ₱74/1M~$1.2 ₱295/1M~$4.8 Official [29]
Qwen3.7 Plus (Intl/Singapore, ≤256k) Alibaba Qwen ₱25/1M~$0.4 ₱98/1M~$1.6 Official [29]
Spark iFlytek Varies Varies Needs verification

Prices in pesos at ₱61.55/$1, last checked 2026-06-26. Always confirm at checkout.

Cheap enough for the backend, risky at the front desk

The famous frontier models are still the safest default for premium, user-facing work. They are easier to evaluate, access, and explain, and that is worth real money on a deadline.

The China models can change the maths entirely at scale. For high-volume support, classification, summarization, and coding, a model that costs a tenth as much per token can be the difference between a product that pays for itself and one that does not.

But cheap does not automatically mean best. Filipino work needs Taglish handling, the right tone, local context, safe behavior, decent docs, and acceptable latency.

The cheapest model can quietly win your backend, and just as quietly lose your customer-facing Filipino experience.

Worth it for a freelancer, overkill for a student

Everyday users and students. Use the app, not the API. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity on the free tier covers almost everything. Pay for one only when you use it daily. The main guide walks through this.

Freelancers and VAs. One ₱1,000–₱1,300 tool that wins you a client or saves hours has paid for itself. Add a research tool and Canva. You do not need the API.

MSMEs. Do not overbuy. One general assistant, Canva, and your office suite. Look at automation only once you have a task you repeat every week.

Developers and startups. Do not default to the most famous model. Use premium models for hard reasoning, sensitive UX, and evaluation; use cheaper or China models for classification, routing, summarization, and high-volume backend work. Keep a benchmark set so you can switch with evidence, not faith.

BPO and enterprise teams. The cheapest model is not automatically acceptable. Weigh data retention, audit logs, region and residency, output quality, hallucination rate, redaction, and client restrictions before price. We go into residency in the main guide. If you want help choosing and shipping the right stack, that is our AI services, automation, and AI consulting work, with enterprise programs and AI training for teams that want to upskill first.

The Lokal Philippine AI Benchmark

Global benchmarks tell you which model is best at American bar exams and competition math. They do not tell you which one writes a decent Taglish reply to an annoyed Shopee buyer, or explains compound interest to a Grade 10 student in Cebu. So we are building one that does.

We test major AI tools and models on real Filipino school, work, freelancing, BPO, government, and small-business tasks. Here is the method, published first, on purpose. We will release versioned scores once the testing is done, and not a moment before, because a benchmark built on vibes is worse than no benchmark.

What we score

Every model is judged on the same eleven categories, on a 1–5 scale, by the same evaluation form.

Taglish fluency
Handles Filipino code-switching without sounding awkward.
Filipino tone
Sounds natural for Filipino students, workers, customers, and SMEs.
Office work
Emails, reports, memos, summaries, presentations.
Student support
Explains and tutors without doing the whole assignment.
Freelancer / VA
Proposals, client replies, admin workflows.
BPO / support
Escalations, empathy, summaries, safety.
MSME / social
Captions, ads, replies, product descriptions.
Coding / automation
Apps Script, formulas, simple bots, backend logic.
Research with sources
Avoids inventing links, fees, laws, or steps.
Privacy / safety
Warns when users paste sensitive data.
Cost-performance
Quality relative to the price you pay.

The headline number is a weighted Philippine Value score: 35% usefulness, 20% Filipino tone, 15% factual accuracy, 15% privacy and safety, 10% cost-performance, and 5% ease of use and source quality. For BPO and enterprise work we weight privacy higher; for coding we weight correctness higher; for MSMEs we weight cost and actionability higher.

The prompt set

The same fifteen prompts, the same settings, the same evaluation form, run against every model.

  1. Taglish customer support, reply to an annoyed Shopee/Lazada buyer asking where their order is, polite but not stiff.
  2. Filipino HR memo, rewrite a stiff English reminder into warm professional Filipino/Taglish.
  3. BPO escalation, turn a messy support transcript into issue, emotion, root cause, next action, suggested reply.
  4. Grade 10 explainer, explain compound interest with a sari-sari store example, simple English with some Filipino.
  5. Ethical school use, a student asks you to write their whole assignment; help them understand it instead.
  6. VA proposal, write an Upwork proposal for a Filipino VA offering inbox, calendar, and basic Canva work.
  7. Office follow-up, a polite follow-up to a manager about a delayed reimbursement.
  8. Google Sheets formula, track daily sales, expenses, and profit for a small food stall, with an explanation.
  9. Dental clinic captions, five friendly Facebook captions for a Cebu clinic promoting teeth cleaning.
  10. Sari-sari content calendar, a 7-day plan for a store that now accepts GCash.
  11. Government service explainer, how to start researching business registration without inventing fees; say where to verify.
  12. Privacy warning, explain the risks of pasting customer call transcripts into a free AI tool, and safer options.
  13. Apps Script, a Google Apps Script that emails a daily summary of new rows in a Sheet.
  14. SME FAQ chatbot, how a small business could build an FAQ bot without uploading confidential customer data.
  15. Long policy summary, turn a company policy into a one-page employee FAQ, then flag what needs HR/legal review.

Models we are testing

App-level: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Canva AI. API-level: the OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 family, Claude Sonnet, Opus and Haiku, Gemini Pro and Flash, DeepSeek V4, Qwen3.7, Kimi K2.6 and K2.7, Mistral, GLM, MiniMax, ERNIE, and Perplexity Sonar. When the results are ready, they will live here and feed back into the recommendations above.

Sources

  1. ChatGPT and OpenAI API — Supported Countries and Territories OpenAI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  2. Claude Availability — Supported Countries Anthropic provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  3. Gemini Apps — Available Countries and Languages Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  4. OpenAI ChatGPT Plans and Pricing OpenAI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Verify Go plan local pricing at checkout; Plus/Pro in USD. View source ↗
  5. Claude Plans and Pricing Anthropic provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  6. Google AI Plans — Gemini Advanced, Google One AI Premium Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Verify local billing; plan names may change. View source ↗
  7. GitHub Copilot Plans and Pricing GitHub provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  8. Grammarly Plans and Pricing Grammarly provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  9. Midjourney Subscription Plans Midjourney provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Basic–Mega plans US$10–US$120/month. View source ↗
  10. Runway Plans and Pricing Runway provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Pro US$35/mo; Max US$95/mo before annual discounts. View source ↗
  11. Perplexity AI Plans and Pricing Perplexity AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  12. Canva Pricing — Pro and Teams Canva provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Localized pricing may apply; verify at checkout. View source ↗
  13. Notion AI — Plans and Pricing Notion provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 AI access depends on workspace plan; verify current credit model. View source ↗
  14. The Philippine AI Report 2025 Swarm research Accessed 2026-06-26 Private consultancy survey of 175 Philippine organizations (fielded Oct–Nov 2025); not a government statistic. View source ↗
  15. Generative AI and Jobs in the Philippines: Labour Market Exposure and Policy Implications International Labour Organization research Accessed 2026-06-26 3.6% of jobs in the highest GenAI-exposure category; about 12.7M jobs exposed. Published 5 February 2026. View source ↗
  16. DICT and Google Cloud Partner on Multi-Year AI and Cybersecurity Initiatives Department of Information and Communications Technology government Accessed 2026-06-26 50,000+ public servants initially, expanding to 200,000 within 18 months. Announced June 2026. View source ↗
  17. LOKAL AI Training — Attendee Survey (n=68) LOKAL research Accessed 2026-06-26 First-party post-event survey of 68 Filipino e-commerce and creative professionals across three 2025 training cohorts. Proprietary; no public URL.
  18. BSP Reference Exchange Rate Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas government Accessed 2026-06-26 About ₱61.5 to the US dollar in mid-2026 (BSP reference rate). The rate moves daily; confirm the current figure at checkout. View source ↗
  19. VAT on Digital Services (Republic Act 12023; BIR Revenue Regulations No. 3-2025) Bureau of Internal Revenue government Accessed 2026-06-26 12% VAT on nonresident digital services; collection began 2 June 2025 under RA 12023. View source ↗
  20. NPC Advisory No. 2024-04 — Guidelines on AI Systems Processing Personal Data National Privacy Commission government Accessed 2026-06-26 Issued 19 December 2024. The Data Privacy Act applies where personal data is processed in AI development or deployment, including training and testing. View source ↗
  21. National AI Strategy Roadmap 2.0 (NAISR 2.0) Department of Trade and Industry government Accessed 2026-06-26 Adopted 3 July 2024; establishes the Center for AI Research (CAIR). View source ↗
  22. Microsoft Learn — AI Learning Paths Microsoft provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  23. IBM SkillsBuild — AI Learning and Credentials IBM provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  24. UNESCO and TESDA — Free Digital Skills and AI Courses via Global Skills Academy and HP LIFE UNESCO official Accessed 2026-06-26 Free government courses including digital skills; TESDA–UNESCO AI access expansion reported in 2026. View source ↗
  25. xAI API Pricing (Grok) xAI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  26. Mistral AI — API Pricing Mistral AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  27. Cohere — Pricing Cohere provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  28. DeepSeek — API Pricing DeepSeek provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  29. Alibaba Cloud Model Studio — Qwen Pricing Alibaba Cloud provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 international/Singapore rows; context-length tiers. View source ↗
  30. Moonshot AI — Kimi Platform Pricing Moonshot AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  31. Baidu ERNIE / Qianfan — API Pricing Baidu provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 RMB per-1k-token pricing converted to USD; verify in console.
  32. MiniMax M3 — router-listed pricing MiniMax (via model router) router Accessed 2026-06-26 router-listed; verify against direct provider billing.
  33. Z.ai / Zhipu GLM-5.2 — router-listed pricing Z.ai / Zhipu (via model router) router Accessed 2026-06-26 router-listed; verify against direct provider billing.
  34. OpenAI API Pricing (per-token) OpenAI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 API token pricing, distinct from the ChatGPT subscription plans. View source ↗
  35. Anthropic API Pricing (per-token) Anthropic provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 API token pricing, distinct from the Claude subscription plans. View source ↗
  36. Google Gemini API Pricing (per-token) Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Gemini API token pricing, distinct from Google AI subscription plans. View source ↗
  37. Perplexity Sonar API Pricing (per-token) Perplexity provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 Sonar API token pricing, distinct from the Perplexity Pro subscription. View source ↗
  38. Microsoft 365 Copilot — Plans and Availability Microsoft provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  39. Google AI Essentials — Course Google / Coursera provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  40. Digital 2025: The Philippines DataReportal (Kepios) research Accessed 2026-06-26 97.5M internet users (83.8% of the population); Facebook ~90.8M; mobile ~65% of web traffic. View source ↗
  41. GCash Leverages AI for Credit Scores (GScore) Philippine Daily Inquirer research Accessed 2026-06-26 GScore credit scoring and Pera Coach AI financial-literacy features. View source ↗
  42. DepEd Order No. 003, s. 2026 — Foundational Guidelines on AI in Basic Education Department of Education government Accessed 2026-06-26 Issued 20 Feb 2026; permits tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini under human-centered, ethical use. View source ↗
  43. Runway — official site (pricing & availability) Runway AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  44. Google Veo — official site (pricing & availability) Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  45. Kling — official site (pricing & availability) Kuaishou provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  46. Luma Dream Machine — official site (pricing & availability) Luma AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  47. Pika — official site (pricing & availability) Pika Labs provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  48. MiniMax Hailuo — official site (pricing & availability) MiniMax provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  49. HeyGen — official site (pricing & availability) HeyGen provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  50. Synthesia — official site (pricing & availability) Synthesia provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  51. Descript — official site (pricing & availability) Descript provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  52. ElevenLabs — official site (pricing & availability) ElevenLabs provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  53. Suno — official site (pricing & availability) Suno provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  54. Udio — official site (pricing & availability) Udio provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  55. Murf — official site (pricing & availability) Murf AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  56. Speechify — official site (pricing & availability) Speechify provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  57. Cartesia — official site (pricing & availability) Cartesia provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  58. Hume — official site (pricing & availability) Hume AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  59. Adobe Firefly — official site (pricing & availability) Adobe provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  60. Ideogram — official site (pricing & availability) Ideogram provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  61. Leonardo.Ai — official site (pricing & availability) Leonardo Interactive provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  62. Recraft — official site (pricing & availability) Recraft provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  63. Freepik AI — official site (pricing & availability) Freepik provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  64. Krea — official site (pricing & availability) Krea provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  65. NightCafe — official site (pricing & availability) NightCafe Studio provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  66. Stability AI — official site (pricing & availability) Stability AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  67. FLUX — official site (pricing & availability) Black Forest Labs provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  68. Google Imagen — official site (pricing & availability) Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  69. GitHub Copilot — official site (pricing & availability) GitHub provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  70. Cursor — official site (pricing & availability) Anysphere provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  71. Windsurf — official site (pricing & availability) Cognition provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  72. Replit — official site (pricing & availability) Replit provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  73. Lovable — official site (pricing & availability) Lovable provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  74. Bolt.new — official site (pricing & availability) StackBlitz provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  75. v0 — official site (pricing & availability) Vercel provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  76. Claude Code — official site (pricing & availability) Anthropic provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  77. Devin — official site (pricing & availability) Cognition provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  78. Tabnine — official site (pricing & availability) Tabnine provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  79. Notion AI — official site (pricing & availability) Notion provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  80. Google NotebookLM — official site (pricing & availability) Google provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  81. Otter.ai — official site (pricing & availability) Otter.ai provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  82. Fireflies.ai — official site (pricing & availability) Fireflies.ai provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  83. Granola — official site (pricing & availability) Granola provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  84. Gamma — official site (pricing & availability) Gamma provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  85. Fathom — official site (pricing & availability) Fathom provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  86. tl;dv — official site (pricing & availability) tl;dv provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  87. Read AI — official site (pricing & availability) Read AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  88. Llama — official site (pricing & availability) Meta provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  89. Kimi — official site (pricing & availability) Moonshot AI provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  90. GLM — official site (pricing & availability) Z.ai provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  91. Nova — official site (pricing & availability) Amazon provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗
  92. Command A+ — official site (pricing & availability) Cohere provider-docs Accessed 2026-06-26 View source ↗

FAQ

Common questions

What is the cheapest AI API for Filipino developers?

At list prices, the China models are dramatically cheaper at scale, DeepSeek V4 Flash is around US$0.14 per 1M input tokens versus US$2–US$5 for frontier models. Cheapest is not automatically best, though; weigh Taglish quality, privacy, and procurement fit before you switch a customer-facing workload.

What is the best AI for Taglish?

We are not going to claim a winner from vibes. We are building the Lokal Philippine AI Benchmark to test exactly this on real Filipino tasks, and we will publish scores once they exist. Until then, test two or three models on your own prompts.

How much is the ChatGPT API in pesos?

GPT-5.4 is about US$2.50 (~₱154) per 1M input tokens and US$15 (~₱923) per 1M output tokens; the smaller Mini and Nano tiers cost far less. API pricing is per token, which is a different thing from the ~₱1,200/month ChatGPT Plus subscription.

Are China AI models safe to use in the Philippines?

They are accessible and cheap, but treat data carefully: check where the endpoint runs, what is retained, and whether your client contracts allow it. For internal, non-sensitive, high-volume work the economics are compelling. For customer data, do your due diligence first.

Is API pricing the same as a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No. A subscription is a flat monthly fee for the app. API pricing is pay-per-use, billed per million tokens, for building AI into your own product. Most people only need the app. This guide separates the two on purpose.

New to AI and this feels too technical?

It is. Start with our plain-language guide instead: AI in the Philippines 2026. Come back here when you are choosing a model to build on.

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