Cost Trends - AI Model Pricing Over Time
Track how AI model pricing changes week over week. Data from 37 weekly snapshots.
Price data captured in weekly snapshots from multiple API sources. Currently tracking 37 weeks of data - trends become more meaningful as history grows.
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Market-Wide Pricing Summary
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) |
| 2026-w19 | 2026-05-04 to 2026-05-10 | $2.26 | $9.91 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 35 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w20 | 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17 | $2.38 | $10.47 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 35 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w21 | 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 | $2.38 | $10.47 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 35 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w22 | 2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31 | $2.48 | $10.95 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 32 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w23 | 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-07 | $2.38 | $10.79 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 34 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w24 | 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-14 | $2.46 | $11.20 | $0.40 | $1.74 | 32 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w25 | 2026-06-15 to 2026-06-21 | $2.45 | $11.17 | $0.40 | $1.80 | 33 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w26 | 2026-06-22 to 2026-06-28 | $2.46 | $11.26 | $0.40 | $1.80 | 33 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w27 | 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-05 | $2.36 | $10.74 | $0.40 | $1.78 | 34 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w28 | 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-12 | $2.39 | $10.97 | $0.43 | $1.94 | 34 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w29 | 2026-07-13 to 2026-07-19 | $2.41 | $11.05 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 27 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w30 | 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-26 | $2.42 | $11.12 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 28 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w31 | 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-02 | $2.38 | $10.91 | $0.43 | $2.00 | 27 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w32 | 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09 | $2.53 | $11.83 | $0.53 | $2.20 | 27 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w33 | 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-16 | $2.47 | $11.49 | $0.50 | $2.10 | 29 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w34 | 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-23 | $2.41 | $11.16 | $0.50 | $2.15 | 32 | Ling-2.6-flash(inclusionai) |
| 2026-w35 | 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30 | $2.14 | $9.73 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 31 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w36 | 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06 | $2.12 | $9.92 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 31 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w37 | 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-13 | $2.08 | $9.75 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 30 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w38 | 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-20 | $2.05 | $9.66 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 32 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w39 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27 | $2.01 | $9.41 | $0.45 | $2.00 | 31 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w40 | 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-04 | $2.00 | $9.49 | $0.50 | $2.20 | 32 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w41 | 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11 | $2.01 | $9.53 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 29 | Mistral Nemo(Mistral AI) |
| 2026-w42 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18 | $1.99 | $9.37 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 29 | Summarize(scaledown) |
| 2026-w43 | 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25 | $2.00 | $9.48 | $0.45 | $2.16 | 30 | Summarize(scaledown) |
| 2026-w44 | 2026-10-26 to 2026-11-01 | $1.63 | $8.05 | $0.50 | $2.20 | 27 | Summarize(scaledown) |
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Notable Price Changes
Comparing 2026-w08 to 2026-w44 - models with the biggest pricing movements.
Price Drops (11)
| 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 |
| Command A+ | Cohere | $2.50 | $0.30 | -2.20 | $10.00 | $1.50 | -8.50 |
| Qwen-Plus | Alibaba | $0.40 | $0.26 | -0.14 | $1.20 | $0.78 | -0.42 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Alibaba | $0.16 | $0.14 | -0.02 | $1.30 | $1.00 | -0.30 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | MiniMax | $0.29 | $0.27 | -0.02 | $1.20 | $0.95 | -0.25 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba | $0.10 | $0.07 | -0.03 | $0.40 | $0.26 | -0.14 |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Meta | $0.05 | $0.05 | -0.0010 | $0.34 | $0.33 | -0.0100 |
| gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | $0.03 | $0.03 | 0 | $0.14 | $0.13 | -0.01 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.25 | $0.26 | +0.01 | $0.40 | $0.38 | -0.02 |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Mistral AI | $0.35 | $0.35 | +0.0010 | $0.56 | $0.55 | -0.0050 |
| Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | $0.02 | $0.03 | +0.0090 | $0.04 | $0.03 | -0.01 |
Price Increases (42)
| Model | Provider | Input Before | Input After | Input Change | Output Before | Output After | Output Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Alibaba | $0.11 | $0.45 | +0.34 | $0.60 | $3.50 | +2.90 |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Alibaba | $0.39 | $0.50 | +0.11 | $2.34 | $3.60 | +1.26 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | Free | $0.29 | +0.29 | Free | $1.00 | +1.00 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.20 | $0.66 | +0.46 | $0.20 | $1.00 | +0.80 |
| Qwen3.5-27B | Alibaba | $0.20 | $0.26 | +0.07 | $1.56 | $2.60 | +1.04 |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.20 | $0.21 | +0.01 | $0.88 | $1.90 | +1.02 |
| Kimi K2 0905 | Moonshot AI | $0.40 | $0.60 | +0.20 | $2.00 | $2.50 | +0.50 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Moonshot AI | $0.47 | $0.60 | +0.13 | $2.00 | $2.50 | +0.50 |
| gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | $0.04 | $0.15 | +0.11 | $0.19 | $0.60 | +0.41 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | Alibaba | $0.07 | $0.09 | +0.02 | $0.10 | $0.55 | +0.45 |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | $0.20 | $0.29 | +0.09 | $0.77 | $1.14 | +0.37 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.08 | $0.25 | +0.17 | $0.50 | $0.75 | +0.25 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | $0.45 | $0.50 | +0.05 | $2.20 | $2.50 | +0.30 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | $0.15 | $0.25 | +0.10 | $0.75 | $0.95 | +0.20 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | MiniMax | $0.27 | $0.30 | +0.03 | $0.95 | $1.20 | +0.25 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | $0.21 | $0.27 | +0.06 | $0.79 | $1.00 | +0.21 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | Alibaba | $0.08 | $0.12 | +0.04 | $0.28 | $0.50 | +0.22 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.12 | $0.36 | +0.24 | $0.39 | $0.40 | +0.0100 |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.04 | $0.08 | +0.04 | $0.15 | $0.35 | +0.20 | |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.80 | $0.80 | 0 | $0.80 | $1.00 | +0.20 |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.04 | $0.10 | +0.06 | $0.10 | $0.20 | +0.10 |
| MiniMax M1 | MiniMax | $0.40 | $0.55 | +0.15 | $2.20 | $2.20 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 0711 | Moonshot AI | $0.55 | $0.57 | +0.02 | $2.20 | $2.30 | +0.10 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.13 | $0.15 | +0.02 | $0.52 | $0.60 | +0.08 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | $0.15 | $0.19 | +0.04 | $0.60 | $0.65 | +0.05 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Alibaba | $0.22 | $0.30 | +0.08 | $1.00 | $1.00 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | $0.32 | $0.26 | -0.06 | $0.89 | $1.03 | +0.14 |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Meta | $0.02 | $0.05 | +0.03 | $0.05 | $0.08 | +0.03 |
| Qwen3 14B | Alibaba | $0.06 | $0.12 | +0.06 | $0.24 | $0.24 | 0 |
| R1 0528 | DeepSeek | $0.45 | $0.50 | +0.05 | $2.15 | $2.15 | 0 |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NVIDIA | $0.05 | $0.06 | +0.01 | $0.20 | $0.24 | +0.04 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Alibaba | $0.12 | $0.12 | 0 | $0.75 | $0.80 | +0.05 |
| Qwen3 32B | Alibaba | $0.08 | $0.08 | 0 | $0.24 | $0.28 | +0.04 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Mistral AI | $0.06 | $0.07 | +0.01 | $0.18 | $0.20 | +0.02 |
| Gemma 3 4B | $0.04 | $0.05 | +0.0100 | $0.08 | $0.10 | +0.02 | |
| Gemma 3 12B | $0.04 | $0.05 | +0.0100 | $0.13 | $0.15 | +0.02 | |
| MiniMax M2 | MiniMax | $0.26 | $0.26 | 0 | $1.00 | $1.02 | +0.02 |
| Llama 4 Scout | Meta | $0.08 | $0.10 | +0.02 | $0.30 | $0.30 | 0 |
| Phi 4 | Microsoft | $0.06 | $0.07 | +0.01 | $0.14 | $0.14 | 0 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Alibaba | $0.07 | $0.07 | 0 | $0.27 | $0.28 | +0.01 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | Alibaba | $0.09 | $0.10 | +0.0100 | $0.30 | $0.30 | 0 |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Meta | $0.03 | $0.03 | 0 | $0.20 | $0.20 | +0.0010 |
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Provider Pricing Overview
Per-provider pricing breakdown from the latest snapshot (2026-w44). Prices per 1M tokens.
| Provider | Models | Avg Input $/1M | Avg Output $/1M | Cheapest Model | Free Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 100 | $3.52 | $18.44 | gpt-oss-20b (batch) | 0 |
| 43 | $0.72 | $4.16 | Gemma 3 4B | 4 | |
| Alibaba | 42 | $0.44 | $1.68 | Qwen3.7 Flash | 0 |
| Anthropic | 30 | $3.75 | $18.77 | Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | 0 |
| Mistral AI | 21 | $0.59 | $2.03 | Mistral Nemo | 0 |
| Zhipu AI | 18 | $0.63 | $2.70 | GLM 5.3 Flash | 0 |
| DeepSeek | 15 | $0.30 | $1.11 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) | 0 |
| NVIDIA | 12 | $0.23 | $0.99 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | 5 |
| MiniMax | 10 | $0.28 | $1.15 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | 0 |
| Moonshot AI | 9 | $0.89 | $5.90 | Kimi K2 0711 | 0 |
| xAI | 8 | $1.47 | $3.69 | Grok 4.3 (batch) | 0 |
| Meta | 8 | $0.14 | $0.31 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 0 |
| meta | 8 | $1.19 | $4.82 | Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | 0 |
| Tencent | 7 | $0.19 | $0.65 | Hy-MT2-1.8B | 0 |
| ByteDance | 7 | $0.25 | $1.49 | UI-TARS 7B | 0 |
| TII | 7 | - | - | - | 7 |
| Cohere | 6 | $1.10 | $4.45 | Command R7B (12-2024) | 1 |
| aion-labs | 5 | $1.64 | $3.28 | Aion 3.5 Mini | 0 |
| Xiaomi | 5 | $1.16 | $2.73 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 0 |
| ~openai | 5 | $2.77 | $14.00 | GPT Luna Latest | 0 |
| Amazon | 5 | $0.74 | $3.72 | Nova Micro 1.0 | 0 |
| Perplexity | 5 | $2.20 | $9.40 | Sonar | 0 |
| sakana | 4 | $3.24 | $17.50 | Sakana Namazu | 0 |
| thinkingmachines | 4 | $0.72 | $2.63 | Inkling Small | 2 |
| ~anthropic | 4 | $4.03 | $20.13 | Claude Haiku Latest | 0 |
| HUMAIN | 4 | $1.80 | $1.80 | ALLaM 1 13B Instruct | 2 |
| Inception | 3 | $0.13 | $0.42 | Mercury 2.5 | 0 |
| Liquid AI | 3 | $0.20 | $0.60 | LFM2.5-24B-A2B | 1 |
| StepFun | 3 | $0.43 | $1.38 | Step 3.5 Flash | 0 |
| inclusionai | 3 | $0.05 | $0.16 | Ling 3.0 Flash | 0 |
| ~deepseek | 3 | $0.07 | $2.93 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest | 0 |
| Cursor | 2 | $1.00 | $5.00 | Composer 2 | 0 |
| prism-ml | 2 | $0.08 | $0.32 | Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | 0 |
| moondream | 2 | $0.30 | $2.50 | Moondream 3 Preview | 0 |
| unbiased | 2 | $1.65 | $5.35 | Pareto 26.10 | 0 |
| scaledown | 2 | $0.04 | - | Summarize | 0 |
| perceptron | 2 | $0.15 | $1.50 | Perceptron Mk1.5 | 0 |
| Upstage | 2 | $0.10 | $0.40 | Solar Mini 4 | 0 |
| inference-net | 2 | $0.04 | $0.19 | Schematron V2 Turbo | 0 |
| ~z-ai | 2 | $0.05 | $0.75 | GLM Flash Latest | 0 |
| 2 | $1.38 | $6.88 | Gemini Flash Latest | 0 | |
| rekaai | 2 | $0.10 | $0.15 | Reka Edge | 0 |
| Stability AI | 2 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Microsoft | 1 | $0.07 | $0.14 | Phi 4 | 0 |
| particle-ai | 1 | $0.05 | $0.50 | Particle-1 | 0 |
| recursive | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| elorian | 1 | $0.60 | $3.00 | Glimpse | 0 |
| xingchen-agi | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| reflection | 1 | $0.25 | $1.00 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | 0 |
| ~unbiased | 1 | $0.80 | $3.20 | Pareto Latest | 0 |
| fireworks | 1 | $3.00 | $15.00 | Ember-1 | 0 |
| IBM | 1 | $0.06 | $0.15 | Granite 4.2 8B | 0 |
| dots-studio | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Meituan | 1 | $0.30 | $1.20 | LongCat 2.0 | 0 |
| ~x-ai | 1 | $2.00 | $6.00 | Grok Latest | 0 |
| ~moonshotai | 1 | $0.15 | $7.15 | Kimi Latest | 0 |
| Writer | 1 | $0.60 | $6.00 | Palmyra X5 | 0 |
| typesafe | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Windsurf | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Vercel | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| JetBrains | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Runway | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Midjourney | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Black Forest Labs | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Ideogram | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Recraft | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Adobe | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Leonardo AI | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Wan AI | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Lightricks | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pika | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Kuaishou | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
| Luma AI | 1 | - | - | - | 0 |
Data sourced from weekly API snapshots. Updated every week.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.