DeepInfra Pricing 2026: Is It Really the Cheapest LLM API?

DeepInfra offers open-source LLM inference at prices 5-50x lower than OpenAI and Anthropic. But is it actually cheaper once you factor in latency, reliability, and model availability? I spent a week benchmarking DeepInfra against direct API calls. Here's what I found. Model DeepInfra OpenAI Equivale