LEGAL & TRADEMARKS

Legal Disclaimer & Trademark Attribution

Last Updated: September 30, 2026 • Nominative Fair Use Statement

1. Independent Research & Non-Affiliation Clause

CheckAPICost (checkapicost.com) is an entirely independent software engineering benchmarking observatory.

CheckAPICost is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com, Inc., OpenAI, LLC, Anthropic PBC, Google LLC, Alphabet Inc., Cloudflare, Inc., Twilio Inc., DeepSeek, Inc., Pinecone Systems, Inc., Deepgram, Inc., ElevenLabs, Inc., Mapbox, Inc., Sinch AB, Qdrant Solutions GmbH, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.

2. Nominative Fair Use Statement

All product names, brand names, service marks, logos, and registered trademarks displayed on CheckAPICost are the property of their respective holders.

The use of these third-party trademarks, company names, model identifiers, and service designations on this website is strictly for identification, comparative benchmarking, and informational purposes under the doctrine of nominative fair use (15 U.S.C. ยง 1115(b)(4) and international copyright and trademark principles).

Reference to any commercial product, service, or vendor does not constitute or imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favoritism by CheckAPICost, nor does it imply any endorsement or sponsorship of CheckAPICost by such third parties.

3. Trademark Attribution Register

The following registered trademarks and trade names are acknowledged:

Company / Holder Trademarks & Model Designations
OpenAI, LLC OpenAI®, ChatGPT®, GPT-4®, GPT-4o®, o1®, o3-mini™
Anthropic PBC Anthropic®, Claude®, Claude 3.5 Sonnet™, Claude 3.7 Sonnet™, Claude Opus™
Amazon.com, Inc. / AWS Amazon Web Services®, AWS®, Amazon S3®, AWS SNS®, Amazon CloudWatch®
Google LLC / Alphabet Google Cloud®, Google Maps®, Gemini®, Google Places API®
Cloudflare, Inc. Cloudflare®, Cloudflare R2®, Cloudflare Workers®
Twilio Inc. Twilio®, SendGrid®, Programmable Messaging™
DeepSeek, Inc. DeepSeek®, DeepSeek-R1™, DeepSeek-V3™
Pinecone Systems, Inc. Pinecone®, Pinecone Serverless™
Deepgram, Inc. Deepgram®, Nova-2™
ElevenLabs, Inc. ElevenLabs®, Voice AI™
Mapbox, Inc. Mapbox®, Mapbox GL®

4. Dynamic Pricing Disclaimers

All unit rates, pricing tiers, token costs, egress fees, and telephony multipliers shown on CheckAPICost are gathered from official public documentation, OpenAPI manifests, and live provider billing endpoints.

Because cloud providers reserve the right to alter pricing, billing increments, or promotional tiers at their sole discretion, CheckAPICost cannot guarantee that all prices are updated down to the minute. Software teams should independently verify current contractual terms on vendor websites prior to committing production traffic.

5. Trademark & Takedown Inquiries

If you are a trademark owner or provider representative and believe any attribution is inaccurate, or if you would like to provide updated pricing documentation for your API, please contact us immediately via our Contact Page. We commit to reviewing and addressing verification requests promptly.