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AI API Pricing Comparison

A comprehensive comparison of AI API pricing across 406+ models from 63+ providers. Understand token costs, compare price tiers, and estimate real-world expenses for LLM API usage in 2026.

Price Tier Distribution

How 406 models break down across pricing tiers (based on output cost per 1M tokens).

40
Free
$0
10% of models
112
Under $1
$0.01 -- $0.99
28% of models
126
$1 -- $5
$1.00 -- $4.99
31% of models
69
$5 -- $15
$5.00 -- $14.99
17% of models
59
$15+
$15.00+
15% of models

Average Pricing by Provider

Sorted cheapest to most expensive (providers with 2+ models)
ProviderModelsAvg Input $/1MAvg Output $/1M
TII7FreeFree
poolside4$0.037$0.075
IBM2$0.034$0.106
rekaai2$0.100$0.150
inclusionai5$0.036$0.269
Meta8$0.138$0.326
Microsoft2$0.345$0.380
Tencent3$0.112$0.436
HUMAIN4$0.450$0.450
NVIDIA11$0.094$0.545
Xiaomi2$0.287$0.575
StepFun2$0.150$0.725
DeepSeek12$0.354$0.972
ByteDance5$0.155$0.980
arcee-ai2$0.485$1.02
MiniMax10$0.255$1.05
Alibaba49$0.331$1.62
Mistral AI18$0.584$1.93
Zhipu AI13$0.603$2.03
thinkingmachines3$0.633$2.43
aion-labs3$1.50$3.00
xAI5$1.35$3.10
Amazon5$0.739$3.72
Moonshot AI8$0.887$4.14
Cohere5$1.04$4.15
meta2$1.25$4.25
Cursor2$1.00$5.00
Perplexity5$2.20$9.40
~google2$1.75$9.75
~openai2$2.88$17.25
~anthropic4$4.50$22.50
Anthropic28$5.60$27.99
OpenAI97$6.06$440.54
Google41$0.559$9515.66
Stability AI2Free$17500.00
Kuaishou4$0.297$17501.19

Price vs Quality Analysis

Budget Models (Under $1/1M output)

72 scored models fall under $1/1M output tokens with an average composite score of 60. The top-scoring budget model is GPT-5.6 Luna Pro at score 89 for just $0.600/1M output.

Premium Models ($15+/1M output)

48 scored models cost $15+/1M output tokens with an average score of 80. Premium models score on average 32% 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

406 models sorted by output price
ModelInput $/1MOutput $/1M
Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)inclusionaiFreeFree
Laguna S 2.1 (free)poolsideFreeFree
Laguna XS 2.1 (free)poolsideFreeFree
North Mini Code (free)CohereFreeFree
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)GoogleFreeFree
Gemma 4 31B (free)GoogleFreeFree
Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogleFreeFree
Lyria 3 Clip PreviewGoogleFreeFree
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)NVIDIAFreeFree
gpt-oss-20b (free)OpenAIFreeFree
Midjourney v6.1MidjourneyFreeFree
Adobe Firefly 3AdobeFreeFree
Leonardo PhoenixLeonardo AIFreeFree
SoraOpenAIFreeFree
Runway Gen-3 AlphaRunwayFreeFree
Pika 2.0PikaFreeFree
MiniMax Video-01MiniMaxFreeFree
Luma Dream MachineLuma AIFreeFree
Stable Video DiffusionStability AIFreeFree
Wan 2.1 T2VWan AIFreeFree
LTX-Video 2LightricksFreeFree
SWE-1.5WindsurfFreeFree
autofixer-01VercelFreeFree
MellumJetBrainsFreeFree
ALLaM 7B Instruct (preview)HUMAINFreeFree
ALLaM 2 7B InstructHUMAINFreeFree
ALLaM 34BHUMAINFreeFree
Falcon-H1-Arabic 34B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon-H1-Arabic 7B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon Arabic 7B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon3 10B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon3 7B InstructTIIFreeFree
Falcon Mamba 7B InstructTIIFreeFree
Ling-2.6-flashinclusionai$0.010$0.030
Mistral NemoMistral AI$0.019$0.030
Ling-3.0-flashinclusionai$0.021$0.063
Mistral Small 3Mistral AI$0.050$0.080
Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta$0.050$0.080
Granite 4.1 8BIBM$0.050$0.100
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
Gemma 3n 4BGoogle$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
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
gpt-oss-120bOpenAI$0.037$0.170
DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest~deepseek$0.090$0.180
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek$0.090$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
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
Hy3 previewTencent$0.063$0.210
Nova Lite 1.0Amazon$0.060$0.240
Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI$0.094$0.250
Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba$0.065$0.260
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructAlibaba$0.070$0.270
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek$0.140$0.280
MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi$0.140$0.280
Qwen3 32BAlibaba$0.080$0.280
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
Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta$0.050$0.330
Gemma 4 26B A4B Google$0.070$0.340
Gemma 4 31BGoogle$0.100$0.340
DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek$0.260$0.380
Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA$0.085$0.400
Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance$0.100$0.400
GLM 4.7 FlashZhipu AI$0.060$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
Gemma 3 27BGoogle$0.080$0.450
Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba$0.117$0.455
Qwen3 8BAlibaba$0.117$0.455
Olmo 3 32B ThinkAllen AI$0.150$0.500
Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba$0.120$0.500
Hy3Tencent$0.132$0.528
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Alibaba$0.090$0.550
Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI$0.351$0.555
Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent$0.140$0.570
KAT-Coder-Air V2.5Kuaishou$0.150$0.600
GPT-5.6 Luna ProOpenAI$0.100$0.600
GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)OpenAI$0.100$0.600
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI$0.100$0.600
GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)OpenAI$0.100$0.600
MiniMax M3 (batch)MiniMax$0.150$0.600
Mistral Small 4Mistral AI$0.150$0.600
Solar Pro 3Upstage$0.150$0.600
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba$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
Ring-2.6-1Tinclusionai$0.075$0.625
Ling-2.6-1Tinclusionai$0.075$0.625
GPT-5.4 Nano (batch)OpenAI$0.100$0.625
Gemma 2 27BGoogle$0.650$0.650
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)Google$0.125$0.750
Mercury 2Inception$0.250$0.750
Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba$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
GLM 5.2Zhipu AI$0.252$0.792
Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba$0.120$0.800
GPT-4.1 Mini (batch)OpenAI$0.200$0.800
Llama 4 MaverickMeta$0.200$0.800
R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek$0.800$0.800
Trinity Large Thinkingarcee-ai$0.220$0.850
GLM 4.5 AirZhipu AI$0.130$0.850
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek$0.435$0.870
MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi$0.435$0.870
MiniMax M2.5MiniMax$0.220$0.900
GLM 4.6VZhipu AI$0.300$0.900
Codestral 2508Mistral AI$0.300$0.900
Qwen3 14BAlibaba$0.227$0.910
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek$0.250$0.950
Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibaba$0.195$0.975
Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba$0.140$1.00
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba$0.140$1.00
DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek$0.270$1.00
GPT-5 Mini (batch)OpenAI$0.125$1.00
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibaba$0.300$1.00
SonarPerplexity$1.00$1.00
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibaba$0.660$1.00
MiniMax M2MiniMax$0.255$1.02
DeepSeek V3DeepSeek$0.257$1.03
MiniMax M2.7MiniMax$0.270$1.08
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructAlibaba$0.090$1.10
MiniMax-01MiniMax$0.200$1.10
DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek$0.270$1.12
Qwen3.6 FlashAlibaba$0.188$1.13
Step 3.7 FlashStepFun$0.200$1.15
Inkling Smallthinkingmachines$0.450$1.20
LongCat 2.0Meituan$0.300$1.20
MiniMax M3MiniMax$0.300$1.20
KAT-Coder-Pro V2Kuaishou$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
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Alibaba$0.400$1.20
Virtuoso Largearcee-ai$0.750$1.20
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google$0.150$1.25
GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.200$1.25
Cogito v2.1 671Bdeepcogito$1.25$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
Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI$0.500$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
Nemotron 3 Ultra (batch)NVIDIA$0.300$1.80
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
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba$0.210$1.90
Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba$0.325$1.95
Kimi K2.7 Code (batch)Moonshot AI$0.475$2.00
Grok Build 0.1xAI$1.00$2.00
Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance$0.250$2.00
Seed 1.6ByteDance$0.250$2.00
GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI$0.250$2.00
GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI$2.50$2.00
GLM 4.6Zhipu AI$0.500$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
Inkling (batch)thinkingmachines$0.500$2.02
Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba$0.180$2.10
R1 0528DeepSeek$0.500$2.15
GLM 5.2 (batch)Zhipu AI$0.700$2.20
GLM 4.5Zhipu AI$0.600$2.20
MiniMax M1MiniMax$0.550$2.20
o4 Mini High (batch)OpenAI$0.550$2.20
o4 Mini (batch)OpenAI$0.550$2.20
o3 Mini High (batch)OpenAI$0.550$2.20
o3 Mini (batch)OpenAI$0.550$2.20
GPT-5.4 Mini (batch)OpenAI$0.375$2.25
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Alibaba$0.230$2.30
Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI$0.570$2.30
Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba$0.390$2.34
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba$0.290$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
Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI$0.580$2.44
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
GLM 5Zhipu AI$0.950$2.55
Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI$0.570$2.85
KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5Kuaishou$0.740$2.96
GLM 5.1Zhipu AI$0.952$2.99
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
Nova Pro 1.0Amazon$0.800$3.20
Qwen3 Coder PlusAlibaba$0.650$3.25
Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI$0.700$3.50
Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA$0.600$3.60
Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba$0.600$3.60
Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Google$0.750$3.75
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAlibaba$0.780$3.90
Qwen3 MaxAlibaba$0.780$3.90
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$0.950$4.05
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
OpenAI GPT Mini Latest~openai$0.750$4.50
GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI$0.750$4.50
Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Anthropic$1.00$5.00
Anthropic 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 Codex (batch)OpenAI$0.625$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
Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba$2.00$6.00
GPT-5.6 Terra ProOpenAI$1.00$6.00
GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI$1.00$6.00
GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI$1.00$6.00
GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)OpenAI$1.00$6.00
Grok 4.5xAI$2.00$6.00
Grok Latest~x-ai$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
Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle$1.50$7.50
Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI$1.50$7.50
Google Gemini Flash Latest~google$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
Jamba Large 1.7AI21 Labs$2.00$8.00
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
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle$1.50$9.00
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic$2.00$10.00
Anthropic 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
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google$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
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google$2.00$12.00
Google 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
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest~moonshotai$2.50$14.00
GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI$1.75$14.00
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-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI$2.50$15.00
GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)OpenAI$2.50$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
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
GPT-5.6 Sol ProOpenAI$5.00$30.00
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI$5.00$30.00
Fugu Ultrasakana$5.00$30.00
GPT Chat LatestOpenAI$5.00$30.00
OpenAI GPT Latest~openai$5.00$30.00
GPT-5.5OpenAI$5.00$30.00
o1 (batch)OpenAI$7.50$30.00
GPT-4 TurboOpenAI$10.00$30.00
GPT-4 Turbo PreviewOpenAI$10.00$30.00
Claude Opus 4.1 (batch)Anthropic$7.50$37.50
o3 Pro (batch)OpenAI$10.00$40.00
Claude Opus 5 (Fast)Anthropic$10.00$50.00
Claude Fable Latest~anthropic$10.00$50.00
Claude Fable 5Anthropic$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)Anthropic$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
Claude Opus 4Anthropic$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
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)Anthropic$30.00$150.00
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-pro (batch)OpenAI$75.00$300.00
o1-proOpenAI$150.00$600.00
Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AIFree$35000.00
DALL-E 3OpenAIFree$40000.00
Recraft V3RecraftFree$40000.00
Imagen 3GoogleFree$40000.00
FLUX.1 ProBlack Forest LabsFree$50000.00
Kling 1.6KuaishouFree$70000.00
Ideogram 2.0IdeogramFree$80000.00
Veo 2GoogleFree$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

Ling-2.6-flash
$0.030/1M out
$0.01/day
~$0.30/month
o3 Mini High (batch)
$2.20/1M out
$0.66/day
~$19.80/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

Ling-2.6-flash
$0.030/1M out
$0.0065/day
~$0.19/month
o3 Mini High (batch)
$2.20/1M out
$0.44/day
~$13.20/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

Ling-2.6-flash
$0.030/1M out
$0.01/day
~$0.33/month
o3 Mini High (batch)
$2.20/1M out
$0.72/day
~$21.45/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.

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