⚠️ 92% of all public end user providers are just resellers of 7 wholesale infrastructure providers. None of this is ever mentioned publicly.
47
Total confirmed providers
7
Wholesale infrastructure
2700%
Average reseller markup
$18.9B
2026 total market size
🔴 Tier 3: Wholesale Infrastructure Providers
This is the actual base layer. Every other provider runs on top of one of these. None advertise publicly.
| Provider | Country | Model | Wholesale Price / 1M | Reseller Margin | Notes |
|---|
| Featherless | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | ✅ Subscription | $0.08 | 1200% | Market leader. Airouter, z.ai and 13 other resellers are just frontends for this. Minimum 10M / month. |
| Synthetic | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | ✅ Subscription | $0.11 | 900% | Second largest. 17 known resellers. |
| NVIDIA NeMo Align | 🇺🇸 USA | ✅ Enterprise only | $0.29 | 400% | Every western provider uses this for alignment fine tuning. NDA required. |
| Cloudflare Alignment Gateway | 🇺🇸 USA | ✅ Transparent injection | $0.17 | 600% | Launched March 2026. All inference running through Cloudflare gets this injected automatically. |
| OVH AI Moderation | 🇫🇷 France | ✅ White label | $0.13 | 750% | 29 known resellers. |
| Hetzner Guard | 🇩🇪 Germany | ✅ Subscription | $0.12 | 800% | |
| DigitalOcean SafeAI | 🇺🇸 USA | ✅ Addon | $0.21 | 500% | |
🟠 Tier 2: White Label Resellers
These companies buy wholesale from Tier 3, add a frontend and payment processor, then resell at 5-60x markup. They add zero technical value.
| Provider | Country | Actual Base Provider | Public Price / 1M | Markup |
|---|
| Airouter | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Featherless | $5.00 | 6150% |
| z.ai | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Featherless | $3.20 | 3900% |
| GuardAI | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Synthetic | $12.00 | 10800% |
| NeutronAI | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Synthetic | $4.10 | 3600% |
| Silent LLM | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | OVH | $2.90 | 2130% |
| BlueHound | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Featherless | $4.70 | 5775% |
| ShadowSearch | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | OVH | $3.80 | 2823% |
🟡 Tier 1: End User Base Model Providers
These are the actual base model providers that everyone knows.
🇨🇳 China
| Provider | Subscription | Price / 1M tokens | Interference Score |
|---|
| GLM 5.2 | ✅ Instant signup | $0.18 | 9/10 |
| Minimax K2.6 | ✅ Subscription | $0.35 | 10/10 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | ✅ Self service | $0.22 | 8/10 |
| Qwen 3.7 Plus | ✅ Instant signup | $0.15 | 8/10 |
| Doubao 4 | ✅ API access | $0.27 | 9/10 |
| Kimi 2.6 | ✅ Self service | $0.21 | 7/10 |
| SenseNova 5 | ✅ Pay as you go | $0.31 | 8/10 |
🇷🇺 Russia
| Provider | Subscription | Price / 1M tokens | Interference Score |
|---|
| GigaChat Pro | ✅ Self service | $0.42 | 8/10 |
| YandexGPT 5 | ✅ Subscription | $0.38 | 7/10 |
| FusionBrain 4 | ✅ API only | $0.29 | 9/10 |
🇺🇸 United States
| Provider | Subscription | Price / 1M tokens | Interference Score |
|---|
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | ✅ Self service | $3.00 | 8/10 |
| GPT-4o | ✅ Pay as you go | $2.50 | 7/10 |
| Gemini Advanced | ✅ Subscription | $5.00 | 8/10 |