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AI API Pricing Comparison
A comprehensive comparison of AI API pricing across 450+ models from 66+ providers. Understand token costs, compare price tiers, and estimate real-world expenses for LLM API usage in 2026.
Price Tier Distribution
How 450 models break down across pricing tiers (based on output cost per 1M tokens).
45
Free
$0
10% of models
129
Under $1
$0.01 -- $0.99
29% of models
149
$1 -- $5
$1.00 -- $4.99
33% of models
73
$5 -- $15
$5.00 -- $14.99
16% of models
54
$15+
$15.00+
12% of models
Average Pricing by Provider
Sorted cheapest to most expensive (providers with 2+ models)| Provider | Models | Avg Input $/1M | Avg Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| TII | 7 | Free | Free |
| inclusionai | 6 | $0.023 | $0.070 |
| poolside | 4 | $0.037 | $0.075 |
| rekaai | 2 | $0.100 | $0.150 |
| IBM | 2 | $0.038 | $0.181 |
| inference-net | 2 | $0.040 | $0.190 |
| Meta | 8 | $0.137 | $0.308 |
| NVIDIA | 10 | $0.100 | $0.345 |
| Microsoft | 2 | $0.345 | $0.380 |
| Inception | 2 | $0.145 | $0.450 |
| HUMAIN | 4 | $0.450 | $0.450 |
| Upstage | 2 | $0.120 | $0.480 |
| Tencent | 7 | $0.211 | $0.709 |
| StepFun | 2 | $0.150 | $0.725 |
| DeepSeek | 18 | $0.363 | $1.03 |
| ~deepseek | 3 | $0.257 | $1.12 |
| MiniMax | 9 | $0.258 | $1.13 |
| ~z-ai | 2 | $0.364 | $1.15 |
| thinkingmachines | 4 | $0.362 | $1.31 |
| ByteDance | 7 | $0.254 | $1.49 |
| Alibaba | 52 | $0.362 | $1.67 |
| Mistral AI | 24 | $0.496 | $1.73 |
| Zhipu AI | 19 | $0.515 | $1.74 |
| meta | 7 | $0.632 | $2.16 |
| Xiaomi | 5 | $1.10 | $2.20 |
| aion-labs | 3 | $1.50 | $3.00 |
| xAI | 8 | $1.42 | $3.54 |
| Amazon | 5 | $0.739 | $3.72 |
| Cohere | 5 | $1.04 | $4.15 |
| Moonshot AI | 7 | $0.982 | $4.55 |
| Cursor | 2 | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| 2 | $1.38 | $7.88 | |
| Perplexity | 5 | $2.20 | $9.40 |
| ~openai | 5 | $2.99 | $15.54 |
| sakana | 4 | $3.24 | $17.50 |
| Anthropic | 26 | $4.11 | $20.53 |
| ~anthropic | 4 | $4.50 | $22.50 |
| OpenAI | 92 | $5.50 | $461.01 |
| 43 | $0.529 | $9072.97 | |
| Stability AI | 2 | Free | $17500.00 |
| Kuaishou | 2 | $0.370 | $35001.48 |
Price vs Quality Analysis
Budget Models (Under $1/1M output)
78 scored models fall under $1/1M output tokens with an average composite score of 58. The top-scoring budget model is GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) at score 89 for just $0.600/1M output.
Premium Models ($15+/1M output)
40 scored models cost $15+/1M output tokens with an average score of 81. Premium models score on average 39% higher than budget models, but cost significantly more per token. The trade-off is meaningful for high-stakes tasks like code generation and complex reasoning.
Key insight: Price and quality correlate but diminishing returns are significant. Many models in the $1--$5 range deliver 80--90% of the performance of premium models at a fraction of the cost. For most production workloads, mid-range models offer the best balance.
Full Pricing Table
450 models sorted by output price| Model | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)inclusionai | Free | Free |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (free)inclusionai | Free | Free |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)inclusionai | Free | Free |
| Qwen3.8 27B (free)Alibaba | Free | Free |
| Dots3-Note Preview (free)dots-studio | Free | Free |
| LFM2.5-2.6B (free)Liquid AI | Free | Free |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)NVIDIA | Free | Free |
| Inkling Small (free)thinkingmachines | Free | Free |
| Laguna S 2.1 (free)poolside | Free | Free |
| Inkling (free)thinkingmachines | Free | Free |
| Laguna XS 2.1 (free)poolside | Free | Free |
| North Mini Code (free)Cohere | Free | Free |
| GLM 5.2 (free)Zhipu AI | Free | Free |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free)NVIDIA | Free | Free |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA | Free | Free |
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)NVIDIA | Free | Free |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Google | Free | Free |
| Gemma 4 31B (free)Google | Free | Free |
| Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogle | Free | Free |
| Lyria 3 Clip PreviewGoogle | Free | Free |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA | Free | Free |
| Midjourney v6.1Midjourney | Free | Free |
| Adobe Firefly 3Adobe | Free | Free |
| Leonardo PhoenixLeonardo AI | Free | Free |
| SoraOpenAI | Free | Free |
| Runway Gen-3 AlphaRunway | Free | Free |
| Pika 2.0Pika | Free | Free |
| MiniMax Video-01MiniMax | Free | Free |
| Luma Dream MachineLuma AI | Free | Free |
| Stable Video DiffusionStability AI | Free | Free |
| Wan 2.1 T2VWan AI | Free | Free |
| LTX-Video 2Lightricks | Free | Free |
| SWE-1.5Windsurf | Free | Free |
| autofixer-01Vercel | Free | Free |
| MellumJetBrains | Free | Free |
| ALLaM 7B Instruct (preview)HUMAIN | Free | Free |
| ALLaM 2 7B InstructHUMAIN | Free | Free |
| ALLaM 34BHUMAIN | Free | Free |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 34B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 7B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon Arabic 7B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon3 10B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon3 7B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Falcon Mamba 7B InstructTII | Free | Free |
| Mistral NemoMistral AI | $0.019 | $0.030 |
| Ling 3.0 Flashinclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.075 | $0.075 |
| Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | $0.050 | $0.080 |
| Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | $0.050 | $0.080 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | $0.049 | $0.098 |
| Reka Edgerekaai | $0.100 | $0.100 |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI | $0.100 | $0.100 |
| Gemma 3 4BGoogle | $0.050 | $0.100 |
| Granite 4.0 MicroIBM | $0.017 | $0.112 |
| Laguna XS 2.1poolside | $0.060 | $0.120 |
| Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba | $0.030 | $0.130 |
| gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | $0.030 | $0.130 |
| Phi 4Microsoft | $0.070 | $0.140 |
| Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | $0.035 | $0.140 |
| Schematron V2 Turboinference-net | $0.030 | $0.150 |
| Mercury 2.5Inception | $0.040 | $0.150 |
| Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba | $0.100 | $0.150 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI | $0.150 | $0.150 |
| Gemma 3 12BGoogle | $0.050 | $0.150 |
| Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | $0.037 | $0.150 |
| Hy-MT2-1.8BTencent | $0.044 | $0.177 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionai | $0.060 | $0.180 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Fininclusionai | $0.060 | $0.180 |
| Laguna S 2.1poolside | $0.090 | $0.180 |
| Llama Guard 4 12BMeta | $0.180 | $0.180 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Alibaba | $0.048 | $0.193 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributormeta | $0.100 | $0.200 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 Contributormeta | $0.100 | $0.200 |
| Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA | $0.070 | $0.200 |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyNVIDIA | $0.200 | $0.200 |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | $0.050 | $0.200 |
| Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI | $0.200 | $0.200 |
| GPT-5 Nano (batch)OpenAI | $0.025 | $0.200 |
| UI-TARS 7B ByteDance | $0.100 | $0.200 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google | $0.050 | $0.200 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano (batch)OpenAI | $0.050 | $0.200 |
| Reka Flash 3rekaai | $0.100 | $0.200 |
| Qwen2.5 7B InstructAlibaba | $0.100 | $0.200 |
| Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | $0.027 | $0.201 |
| Schematron V2 Smallinference-net | $0.050 | $0.230 |
| Qwen3 14BAlibaba | $0.120 | $0.240 |
| Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | $0.060 | $0.240 |
| Granite 4.2 8BIBM | $0.060 | $0.250 |
| GLM Flash Latest~z-ai | $0.075 | $0.250 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)Zhipu AI | $0.075 | $0.250 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI | $0.094 | $0.250 |
| Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba | $0.065 | $0.260 |
| MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | $0.140 | $0.280 |
| MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | $0.140 | $0.280 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | $0.070 | $0.280 |
| Qwen3 32BAlibaba | $0.080 | $0.280 |
| Hy-MT2-30B-A3BTencent | $0.074 | $0.295 |
| Hy-MT2-7BTencent | $0.074 | $0.295 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B Google | $0.090 | $0.300 |
| Mistral Small 4 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.075 | $0.300 |
| Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | $0.100 | $0.300 |
| Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance | $0.075 | $0.300 |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI | $0.100 | $0.300 |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20bOpenAI | $0.075 | $0.300 |
| Llama 4 ScoutMeta | $0.100 | $0.300 |
| GPT-4o-mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.075 | $0.300 |
| Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta | $0.100 | $0.320 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)DeepSeek | $0.110 | $0.330 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)DeepSeek | $0.110 | $0.330 |
| Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta | $0.050 | $0.330 |
| Gemma 4 31BGoogle | $0.090 | $0.340 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Alibaba | $0.087 | $0.350 |
| Solar Pro 4Upstage | $0.090 | $0.360 |
| Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance | $0.100 | $0.400 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashZhipu AI | $0.061 | $0.400 |
| DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | $0.269 | $0.400 |
| GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | $0.050 | $0.400 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle | $0.100 | $0.400 |
| GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | $0.100 | $0.400 |
| Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba | $0.360 | $0.400 |
| Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta | $0.400 | $0.400 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | $0.270 | $0.410 |
| Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | $0.104 | $0.416 |
| Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | $0.080 | $0.450 |
| Codestral 2508 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.150 | $0.450 |
| Gemma 3 27BGoogle | $0.080 | $0.450 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba | $0.117 | $0.455 |
| Qwen3 8BAlibaba | $0.117 | $0.455 |
| Qwen3.8 FlashAlibaba | $0.150 | $0.470 |
| DeepSeek Flash Latest~deepseek | $0.120 | $0.480 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27Bprism-ml | $0.075 | $0.500 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AI | $0.150 | $0.500 |
| Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba | $0.120 | $0.500 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | $0.130 | $0.520 |
| Hy3Tencent | $0.132 | $0.528 |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | $0.351 | $0.555 |
| Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent | $0.140 | $0.570 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)OpenAI | $0.100 | $0.600 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)OpenAI | $0.100 | $0.600 |
| Hy3 previewTencent | $0.180 | $0.600 |
| Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| Solar Pro 3Upstage | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| SabaMistral AI | $0.200 | $0.600 |
| Command R (08-2024)Cohere | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| GPT-4o-miniOpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 |
| WizardLM-2 8x22BMicrosoft | $0.620 | $0.620 |
| GPT-5.4 Nano (batch)OpenAI | $0.100 | $0.625 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek | $0.040 | $0.640 |
| Gemma 2 27BGoogle | $0.650 | $0.650 |
| Llama 4 MaverickMeta | $0.188 | $0.652 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek | $0.220 | $0.660 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)meta | $0.175 | $0.750 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)Google | $0.125 | $0.750 |
| Mercury 2Inception | $0.250 | $0.750 |
| Mistral Large 3 2512 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.250 | $0.750 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch)OpenAI | $0.250 | $0.750 |
| Qwen Plus 0728Alibaba | $0.260 | $0.780 |
| Qwen-PlusAlibaba | $0.260 | $0.780 |
| Trinity Large Thinkingarcee-ai | $0.250 | $0.800 |
| Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba | $0.120 | $0.800 |
| GPT-4.1 Mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.200 | $0.800 |
| R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek | $0.800 | $0.800 |
| GLM 4.5 AirZhipu AI | $0.130 | $0.850 |
| MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | $0.435 | $0.870 |
| MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | $0.435 | $0.870 |
| DeepSeek V3DeepSeek | $0.320 | $0.890 |
| GLM 4.6VZhipu AI | $0.300 | $0.900 |
| Codestral 2508Mistral AI | $0.300 | $0.900 |
| DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek | $0.250 | $0.950 |
| Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibaba | $0.195 | $0.975 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest~deepseek | $0.030 | $1.00 |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba | $0.150 | $1.00 |
| DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | $0.270 | $1.00 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.200 | $1.00 |
| GPT-5 Mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.125 | $1.00 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibaba | $0.300 | $1.00 |
| DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek | $0.250 | $1.00 |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba | $0.800 | $1.00 |
| SonarPerplexity | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibaba | $0.660 | $1.00 |
| MiniMax M2MiniMax | $0.255 | $1.02 |
| MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | $0.270 | $1.08 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructAlibaba | $0.090 | $1.10 |
| MiniMax-01MiniMax | $0.200 | $1.10 |
| Qwen3.6 FlashAlibaba | $0.188 | $1.13 |
| Step 3.7 FlashStepFun | $0.200 | $1.15 |
| GPT Luna Latest~openai | $0.200 | $1.20 |
| Muse Glimmer 30Bmeta | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| Inkling Smallthinkingmachines | $0.450 | $1.20 |
| LongCat 2.0Meituan | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna ProOpenAI | $0.200 | $1.20 |
| GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | $0.200 | $1.20 |
| MiniMax M3MiniMax | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| MiniMax M2-herMiniMax | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| MiniMax M2.1MiniMax | $0.300 | $1.20 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | $0.150 | $1.20 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashXZhipu AI | $0.370 | $1.25 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google | $0.150 | $1.25 |
| GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | $0.200 | $1.25 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba | $0.313 | $1.25 |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu | $0.420 | $1.25 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)Google | $0.150 | $1.25 |
| Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic | $0.250 | $1.25 |
| Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba | $0.320 | $1.28 |
| Aion-3.0-Miniaion-labs | $0.700 | $1.40 |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google | $0.250 | $1.50 |
| Perceptron Mk1perceptron | $0.150 | $1.50 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle | $0.250 | $1.50 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | $0.250 | $1.50 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)Google | $0.250 | $1.50 |
| GPT-3.5 TurboOpenAI | $0.500 | $1.50 |
| Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba | $0.195 | $1.56 |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba | $0.260 | $1.56 |
| Aion-2.0aion-labs | $0.800 | $1.60 |
| GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | $0.400 | $1.60 |
| GLM 4.7Zhipu AI | $0.400 | $1.75 |
| GLM 4.6Zhipu AI | $0.430 | $1.75 |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Alibaba | $0.300 | $1.80 |
| GLM 4.5VZhipu AI | $0.600 | $1.80 |
| ALLaM 1 13B InstructHUMAIN | $1.80 | $1.80 |
| Qwen3 235B A22BAlibaba | $0.455 | $1.82 |
| DeepSeek Pro Latest~deepseek | $0.622 | $1.87 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | $0.622 | $1.87 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Google | $0.375 | $1.88 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)Google | $0.375 | $1.88 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Google | $0.375 | $1.88 |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba | $0.210 | $1.90 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | $0.953 | $1.91 |
| GLM 5Zhipu AI | $0.600 | $1.92 |
| Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba | $0.325 | $1.95 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)DeepSeek | $0.660 | $1.98 |
| Grok Build 0.1xAI | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Grok 4.3 (batch)xAI | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba | $0.300 | $2.00 |
| Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance | $0.250 | $2.00 |
| Seed 1.6ByteDance | $0.250 | $2.00 |
| Devstral 2 2512Mistral AI | $0.400 | $2.00 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI | $0.250 | $2.00 |
| GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI | $2.50 | $2.00 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | $0.400 | $2.00 |
| GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | $0.250 | $2.00 |
| Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | $0.400 | $2.00 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)OpenAI | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo InstructOpenAI | $1.50 | $2.00 |
| GLM 5.2Zhipu AI | $0.650 | $2.04 |
| GLM Latest~z-ai | $0.654 | $2.05 |
| GLM 5.3Zhipu AI | $0.654 | $2.05 |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba | $0.260 | $2.08 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba | $0.180 | $2.10 |
| R1 0528DeepSeek | $0.500 | $2.15 |
| GLM 5.3 (batch)Zhipu AI | $0.700 | $2.20 |
| GLM 5.2 (batch)Zhipu AI | $0.700 | $2.20 |
| GLM 4.5Zhipu AI | $0.600 | $2.20 |
| MiniMax M1MiniMax | $0.400 | $2.20 |
| o4 Mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.550 | $2.20 |
| o3 Mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.550 | $2.20 |
| GPT-5.4 Mini (batch)OpenAI | $0.375 | $2.25 |
| Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | $0.450 | $2.25 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Alibaba | $0.230 | $2.30 |
| Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | $0.570 | $2.30 |
| Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | $0.600 | $2.40 |
| GPT Audio MiniOpenAI | $0.600 | $2.40 |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | $0.200 | $2.40 |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Alibaba | $0.200 | $2.40 |
| Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance | $0.500 | $2.50 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle | $0.300 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.3xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentxAI | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.20xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| Nova 2 LiteAmazon | $0.300 | $2.50 |
| Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | $0.600 | $2.50 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)Anthropic | $0.500 | $2.50 |
| Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google | $0.300 | $2.50 |
| Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AI | $0.600 | $2.50 |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | $0.300 | $2.50 |
| R1DeepSeek | $0.700 | $2.50 |
| Composer 2Cursor | $0.500 | $2.50 |
| Hy4 previewTencent | $0.834 | $2.50 |
| KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5Kuaishou | $0.740 | $2.96 |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba | $0.420 | $3.00 |
| Seed-2.0-CodeByteDance | $0.500 | $3.00 |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google | $0.500 | $3.00 |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google | $0.500 | $3.00 |
| Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | $0.500 | $3.00 |
| GLM 5.1Zhipu AI | $0.966 | $3.04 |
| Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | $0.800 | $3.20 |
| Qwen3 Coder PlusAlibaba | $0.650 | $3.25 |
| Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI | $0.706 | $3.30 |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba | $0.550 | $3.50 |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.750 | $3.75 |
| Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | $0.750 | $3.75 |
| Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | $0.750 | $3.75 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 (batch)Mistral AI | $0.750 | $3.75 |
| Gemini Flash Latest~google | $0.750 | $3.75 |
| Qwen3 Max ThinkingAlibaba | $0.780 | $3.90 |
| Qwen3 MaxAlibaba | $0.780 | $3.90 |
| Sakana Namazusakana | $0.950 | $4.00 |
| Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | $0.950 | $4.00 |
| GLM 5V TurboZhipu AI | $1.20 | $4.00 |
| GLM 5 TurboZhipu AI | $1.20 | $4.00 |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba | $0.400 | $4.00 |
| o3 (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $4.00 |
| GPT-4.1 (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $4.00 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo 16kOpenAI | $3.00 | $4.00 |
| Inklingthinkingmachines | $1.00 | $4.05 |
| Muse Spark 1.3meta | $1.25 | $4.25 |
| Muse Spark 1.2meta | $1.25 | $4.25 |
| Muse Spark 1.1meta | $1.25 | $4.25 |
| o4 Mini HighOpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 |
| o4 MiniOpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 |
| o3 Mini HighOpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 |
| o3 MiniOpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 |
| Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba | $1.48 | $4.42 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)Google | $0.750 | $4.50 |
| GPT Mini Latest~openai | $0.750 | $4.50 |
| GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | $0.750 | $4.50 |
| Grok 4.7xAI | $1.60 | $4.80 |
| Grok Latest~x-ai | $1.60 | $4.80 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Claude Haiku Latest~anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| GPT-5.1 (batch)OpenAI | $0.625 | $5.00 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| GPT-5 (batch)OpenAI | $0.625 | $5.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch)Google | $0.625 | $5.00 |
| GPT-4o (batch)OpenAI | $1.25 | $5.00 |
| Fugu Maxsakana | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Alibaba | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Grok 4.6xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $6.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $6.00 |
| Grok 4.5xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Aion-3.0aion-labs | $3.00 | $6.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)Google | $1.00 | $6.00 |
| Palmyra X5Writer | $0.600 | $6.00 |
| Mistral Large 2407Mistral AI | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Mixtral 8x22B InstructMistral AI | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Mistral LargeMistral AI | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Qwen3.6 Max PreviewAlibaba | $1.03 | $6.16 |
| GPT-5.2 (batch)OpenAI | $0.875 | $7.00 |
| Paretounbiased | $2.50 | $7.50 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| Kimi Latest~moonshotai | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| GPT-5.4 (batch)OpenAI | $1.25 | $7.50 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)Anthropic | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch)Anthropic | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| Composer 2 FastCursor | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| o3OpenAI | $2.00 | $8.00 |
| GPT-4.1OpenAI | $2.00 | $8.00 |
| Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | $2.00 | $8.00 |
| Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | $2.00 | $8.00 |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedXiaomi | $4.35 | $8.70 |
| Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | $1.50 | $9.00 |
| GPT Sol Latest~openai | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol ProOpenAI | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet Latest~anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| GPT AudioOpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.1OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5 ImageOpenAI | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| Command ACohere | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| GPT-4oOpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 |
| GPT Terra Latest~openai | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra ProOpenAI | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Gemini Pro Latest~google | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| Claude Opus 5 (batch)Anthropic | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)Anthropic | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)Anthropic | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)Anthropic | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 (batch)Anthropic | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Nova Premier 1.0Amazon | $2.50 | $12.50 |
| GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 |
| GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 |
| GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 |
| GPT-5.2OpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 |
| Kimi K3Moonshot AI | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-5.5 (batch)OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 |
| GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI | $8.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-5.4OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Sonar ProPerplexity | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-4 Turbo (batch)OpenAI | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-6 Astra (batch)OpenAI | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch)OpenAI | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 5Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Fable 5 (batch)Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus Latest~anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Fugu Ultra v2sakana | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| Fugu Ultrasakana | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| GPT Chat LatestOpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| GPT-5.5OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 (batch)Anthropic | $7.50 | $37.50 |
| GPT Astra Latest~openai | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| GPT-6 Astra ProOpenAI | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| Claude Fable Latest~anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| Claude Fable 5Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| GPT-5 Pro (batch)OpenAI | $7.50 | $60.00 |
| o1OpenAI | $15.00 | $60.00 |
| GPT-4OpenAI | $30.00 | $60.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | $15.00 | $75.00 |
| o3 ProOpenAI | $20.00 | $80.00 |
| GPT-5.2 Pro (batch)OpenAI | $10.50 | $84.00 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro (batch)OpenAI | $15.00 | $90.00 |
| GPT-5.4 Pro (batch)OpenAI | $15.00 | $90.00 |
| GPT-5 ProOpenAI | $15.00 | $120.00 |
| GPT-5.2 ProOpenAI | $21.00 | $168.00 |
| GPT-5.5 ProOpenAI | $30.00 | $180.00 |
| GPT-5.4 ProOpenAI | $30.00 | $180.00 |
| o1-proOpenAI | $150.00 | $600.00 |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AI | Free | $35000.00 |
| DALL-E 3OpenAI | Free | $40000.00 |
| Recraft V3Recraft | Free | $40000.00 |
| Imagen 3Google | Free | $40000.00 |
| FLUX.1 ProBlack Forest Labs | Free | $50000.00 |
| Kling 1.6Kuaishou | Free | $70000.00 |
| Ideogram 2.0Ideogram | Free | $80000.00 |
| Veo 2Google | Free | $350000.00 |
How AI API Pricing Works
Token-Based Pricing
AI APIs charge per token, not per request. A token is roughly 3/4 of a word in English. For example, the sentence "Hello, how are you?" is about 6 tokens. Prices are quoted per million tokens (1M tokens is approximately 750,000 words).
Input vs Output Tokens
Input tokens are what you send to the model (prompts, context, system instructions). Output tokens are what the model generates. Output tokens are typically 2--5x more expensive than input tokens because they require more computation.
Batch vs Real-Time
Some providers offer batch pricing at 50% discount for non-time-sensitive workloads. Batch requests are queued and processed within a 24-hour window, making them ideal for data processing, content generation pipelines, and evaluation runs.
Cached / Prompt Caching
Providers like Anthropic and OpenAI offer prompt caching, which reduces input costs by up to 90% for repeated prefixes. If you send the same system prompt across requests, cached tokens are charged at a fraction of the standard rate.
Real-World Cost Estimates
Estimated daily costs for common use cases across different price points.
Customer Support Chatbot
500 conversations/day, ~800 input + 400 output tokens each
Mistral Nemo
$0.030/1M out
$0.01/day
~$0.41/month
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
$2.00/1M out
$0.80/day
~$24.00/month
Veo 2
$350000.00/1M out
$70000.00/day
~$2100000.00/month
Content Generation Pipeline
100 articles/day, ~2,000 input + 1,500 output tokens each
Mistral Nemo
$0.030/1M out
$0.0083/day
~$0.25/month
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
$2.00/1M out
$0.50/day
~$15.00/month
Veo 2
$350000.00/1M out
$52500.00/day
~$1575000.00/month
Code Completion (IDE)
1,000 completions/day, ~500 input + 200 output tokens each
Mistral Nemo
$0.030/1M out
$0.02/day
~$0.47/month
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
$2.00/1M out
$0.90/day
~$27.00/month
Veo 2
$350000.00/1M out
$70000.00/day
~$2100000.00/month
Estimates based on current API pricing. Actual costs vary with prompt caching, batching discounts, and token efficiency. Try the interactive calculator for custom estimates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
DeepSeek offers the lowest prices for high-quality models, often 10-50x cheaper than OpenAI. Google Gemini Flash offers a generous free tier. For open-source models, Together AI and Groq provide competitive hosted inference pricing.
Prices vary dramatically - from $0.01/M tokens (budget models) to $60/M tokens (premium reasoning models). The best value depends on your quality requirements. Mid-tier models like GPT-4o Mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku offer strong price-performance ratios.
Yes - AI API prices have dropped 90%+ over the past two years. Competition, efficiency improvements, and open-source alternatives continue to drive prices down. Our pricing history page tracks these trends.