Track how AI model pricing changes week over week. Data from 11 weekly snapshots.
Price data captured in weekly snapshots from multiple API sources. Currently tracking 11 weeks of data - trends become more meaningful as history grows.
Average and median pricing across all paid models for each tracked week. Prices are per 1M tokens.
| Week | Date Range | Avg Input $/1M | Avg Output $/1M | Median Input | Median Output | Free Models | Cheapest Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-w08 | 2026-02-16 to 2026-02-22 | $2.22 | $9.26 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 23 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w09 | 2026-02-23 to 2026-03-01 | $2.21 | $9.24 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 21 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w10 | 2026-03-02 to 2026-03-08 | $2.20 | $9.21 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 25 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w11 | 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-15 | $2.20 | $9.22 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 25 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w12 | 2026-03-16 to 2026-03-22 | $2.13 | $8.96 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 25 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w13 | 2026-03-23 to 2026-03-29 | $2.09 | $8.81 | $0.30 | $1.25 | 24 | LFM2-8B-A1B(Liquid AI) |
| 2026-w14 | 2026-03-30 to 2026-04-05 | $2.06 | $8.69 | $0.30 | $1.23 | 27 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w15 | 2026-04-06 to 2026-04-12 | $2.16 | $9.17 | $0.30 | $1.25 | 35 | Gemma 3n 4B(Google) |
| 2026-w16 | 2026-04-13 to 2026-04-19 | $2.21 | $9.42 | $0.34 | $1.33 | 35 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w17 | 2026-04-20 to 2026-04-26 | $2.31 | $10.00 | $0.39 | $1.50 | 38 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w18 | 2026-04-27 to 2026-05-03 | $2.26 | $9.85 | $0.40 | $1.56 | 40 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
Comparing 2026-w08 to 2026-w18 - models with the biggest pricing movements.
| Model | Provider | Input Before | Input After | Input Change | Output Before | Output After | Output Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command R (08-2024) | Cohere | $2.50 | $0.15 | -2.35 | $10.00 | $0.60 | -9.40 |
| Qwen3 Max | Alibaba | $1.20 | $0.78 | -0.42 | $6.00 | $3.90 | -2.10 |
| Qwen VL Max | Alibaba | $0.80 | $0.52 | -0.28 | $3.20 | $2.08 | -1.12 |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.80 | $0.25 | -0.55 | $0.80 | $0.75 | -0.05 |
| Qwen-Plus | Alibaba | $0.40 | $0.26 | -0.14 | $1.20 | $0.78 | -0.42 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | $0.15 | $0.10 | -0.05 | $1.20 | $0.78 | -0.42 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | $0.45 | $0.44 | -0.0100 | $2.20 | $2.00 | -0.20 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | MiniMax | $0.29 | $0.15 | -0.14 | $1.20 | $1.15 | -0.05 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba | $0.10 | $0.07 | -0.03 | $0.40 | $0.26 | -0.14 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.25 | $0.25 | +0.0020 | $0.40 | $0.38 | -0.02 |
| gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | $0.04 | $0.04 | 0 | $0.19 | $0.18 | -0.01 |
| Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | $0.02 | $0.02 | 0 | $0.04 | $0.03 | -0.01 |
| Model | Provider | Input Before | Input After | Input Change | Output Before | Output After | Output Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | Alibaba | Free | $0.26 | +0.26 | Free | $2.60 | +2.60 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | Free | $0.13 | +0.13 | Free | $1.56 | +1.56 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.20 | $0.66 | +0.46 | $0.20 | $1.00 | +0.80 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Alibaba | $0.11 | $0.15 | +0.04 | $0.60 | $1.50 | +0.90 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Alibaba | $0.22 | $0.22 | 0 | $1.00 | $1.80 | +0.80 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Moonshot AI | $0.47 | $0.60 | +0.13 | $2.00 | $2.50 | +0.50 |
| Llama Guard 3 8B | Meta | $0.02 | $0.48 | +0.46 | $0.06 | $0.03 | -0.03 |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct | Meta | $0.05 | $0.24 | +0.20 | $0.05 | $0.24 | +0.20 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.12 | $0.36 | +0.24 | $0.39 | $0.40 | +0.0100 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | $0.21 | $0.27 | +0.06 | $0.79 | $0.95 | +0.16 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | Alibaba | $0.08 | $0.09 | +0.0100 | $0.28 | $0.45 | +0.17 |
| Gemma 3n 4B | $0.02 | $0.06 | +0.04 | $0.04 | $0.12 | +0.08 | |
| Kimi K2 0711 | Moonshot AI | $0.55 | $0.57 | +0.02 | $2.20 | $2.30 | +0.10 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Alibaba | $0.05 | $0.08 | +0.03 | $0.34 | $0.40 | +0.06 |
| R1 0528 | DeepSeek | $0.45 | $0.50 | +0.05 | $2.15 | $2.15 | 0 |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.04 | $0.08 | +0.04 | $0.15 | $0.16 | +0.01 | |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Alibaba | $0.12 | $0.12 | 0 | $0.75 | $0.80 | +0.05 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Mistral AI | $0.06 | $0.07 | +0.01 | $0.18 | $0.20 | +0.02 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | MiniMax | $0.27 | $0.29 | +0.02 | $0.95 | $0.95 | 0 |
| Phi 4 | Microsoft | $0.06 | $0.07 | +0.0050 | $0.14 | $0.14 | 0 |
Per-provider pricing breakdown from the latest snapshot (2026-w18). Prices per 1M tokens.
| Provider | Models | Avg Input $/1M | Avg Output $/1M | Cheapest Model | Free Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 66 | $7.52 | $32.15 | gpt-oss-20b | 2 |
| Alibaba | 52 | $0.26 | $1.35 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | 2 |
| 33 | $0.59 | $3.72 | Gemma 3 4B | 9 | |
| Mistral AI | 24 | $0.61 | $1.84 | Mistral Nemo | 0 |
| Anthropic | 14 | $6.58 | $32.88 | Claude 3 Haiku | 0 |
| Meta | 14 | $0.19 | $0.29 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 2 |
| DeepSeek | 13 | $0.36 | $0.94 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 |
| Zhipu AI | 13 | $0.55 | $1.96 | GLM 4 32B | 1 |
| xAI | 11 | $1.34 | $5.41 | Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 |
| NVIDIA | 11 | $0.28 | $0.50 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2 | 5 |
| MiniMax | 9 | $0.27 | $1.26 | MiniMax M2.1 | 1 |
| arcee-ai | 7 | $0.39 | $0.99 | Trinity Mini | 0 |
| TII | 7 | - | - | - | 7 |
| Baidu | 6 | $0.20 | $0.69 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking | 1 |
| Xiaomi | 5 | $0.58 | $2.06 | MiMo-V2-Flash | 0 |
| Moonshot AI | 5 | $0.55 | $2.46 | Kimi K2 0905 | 0 |
| Amazon | 5 | $0.74 | $3.72 | Nova Micro 1.0 | 0 |
| ByteDance | 5 | $0.15 | $0.98 | UI-TARS 7B | 0 |
| Perplexity | 5 | $2.20 | $9.40 | Sonar | 0 |
| Cohere | 4 | $1.30 | $5.19 | Command R7B (12-2024) | 0 |
| HUMAIN | 4 | $1.80 | $1.80 | ALLaM 1 13B Instruct | 2 |
| ~anthropic | 3 | $3.00 | $15.00 | Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest | 0 |
| Liquid AI | 3 | $0.03 | $0.12 | LFM2-24B-A2B | 2 |
| aion-labs | 3 | $1.83 | $3.67 | Aion-1.0-Mini | 0 |
| Cursor | 2 | $1.00 | $5.00 | Composer 2 | 0 |
| Microsoft | 2 | $0.34 | $0.38 | Phi 4 | 0 |
| Allen AI | 2 | $0.17 | $0.55 | Olmo 3 32B Think | 0 |
| IBM | 2 | $0.03 | $0.10 | Granite 4.0 Micro | 0 |
| poolside | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| ~openai | 2 | $2.88 | $17.25 | OpenAI GPT Mini Latest | 0 |
| 2 | $1.25 | $7.50 | Google Gemini Flash Latest | 0 | |
| inclusionai | 2 | $0.08 | $0.24 | Ling-2.6-flash | 1 |
| Tencent | 2 | $0.14 | $0.57 | Hunyuan A13B Instruct | 1 |
| Kuaishou | 2 | $0.30 | $1.20 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | 0 |
| rekaai | 2 | $0.10 | $0.15 | Reka Edge | 0 |
| Inflection | 2 | $2.50 | $10.00 | Inflection 3 Productivity | 0 |
| Stability AI | 2 | - | - | - | 0 |
| StepFun | 1 | $0.10 | $0.30 | Step 3.5 Flash | 0 |
| Inception | 1 | $0.25 | $0.75 | Mercury 2 | 0 |
| ~moonshotai | 1 | $0.74 | $3.49 | MoonshotAI Kimi Latest | 0 |
| Upstage | 1 | $0.15 | $0.60 | Solar Pro 3 | 0 |
| Writer | 1 | $0.60 | $6.00 | Palmyra X5 | 0 |
| essentialai | 1 | $0.15 | $0.15 | Rnj 1 Instruct | 0 |
| deepcogito | 1 | $1.25 | $1.25 | Cogito v2.1 671B | 0 |
| AI21 Labs | 1 | $2.00 | $8.00 | Jamba Large 1.7 | 0 |
| Windsurf | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Vercel | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| JetBrains | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Recraft | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Wan AI | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Lightricks | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Midjourney | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Black Forest Labs | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Ideogram | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Leonardo AI | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Pika | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Runway | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Adobe | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Luma AI | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
Pricing data is captured in weekly snapshots from multiple API sources. Each snapshot records input and output token costs per million for every available model, allowing us to track price changes over time across all providers.
Price drops typically occur when providers reduce costs due to infrastructure optimizations, increased competition, or strategic pricing decisions to gain market share. As AI hardware costs decrease and model serving becomes more efficient, many providers pass savings on to customers.
Average pricing sums all prices and divides by the number of models, which can be skewed by expensive outliers. Median pricing represents the middle value when all prices are sorted, giving a better sense of what a "typical" model costs. We show both to provide a complete picture of market pricing.