Question 1

Is GST charged on AI API spend in India?

Accepted Answer

Yes. When an Indian business buys API access from a foreign provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.), 18% GST applies under the reverse-charge mechanism (RCM) — the Indian buyer self-assesses and deposits it. Factor ~18% on top of the listed cost.

Question 2

Which AI API is cheapest in India right now?

Accepted Answer

DeepInfra Open models at ₹8 per million tokens (latest weekly update).

Question 3

How much does the DeepInfra Open models API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹8 per million tokens, about 280 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 4

How much does the Hyperbolic deepseek-v4 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹18 per million tokens, about 240 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 5

How much does the Krutrim Krutrim-1 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹35 per million tokens, about 90 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 6

How much does the Sarvam Sarvam-1 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹40 per million tokens, about 80 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 7

How much does the xAI xAI: Grok 4.3 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹104 per million tokens, about 280 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 8

How much does the Fireworks Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹167 per million tokens, about 200 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 9

How much does the Mistral AI Mistral Large API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹167 per million tokens, about 260 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 10

How much does the Perplexity Perplexity: Sonar Pro API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹250 per million tokens, about 230 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 11

How much does the Anthropic Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹250 per million tokens, about 300 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 12

How much does the Anthropic Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹418 per million tokens, about 320 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

Question 13

How much does the OpenAI OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro API cost in India?

Accepted Answer

₹2,505 per million tokens, about 280 ms latency from Mumbai. GST at 18% (reverse charge) applies on top.

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API Comparison · India

AI API pricing in India — INR per million tokens

DeepInfra Open models

Hyperbolic deepseek-v4

Krutrim Krutrim-1

Sarvam Sarvam-1

xAI xAI: Grok 4.3

Fireworks Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Mistral AI Mistral Large

Perplexity Perplexity: Sonar Pro

Anthropic Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7

OpenAI OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro

DeepSeek deepseek-v4

Amazon Bedrock (per-model)

Replicate (per-model)

Together llama-4-70b-instruct

Azure OpenAI (per-model)

Groq llama-4-70b-instruct

OpenRouter (per-model)

Google gemini-3.1-pro

Bhashini Bhashini NMT

Google gemini-3.1-flash

Cohere command-r-plus