AI Model API Pricing
Comprehensive pricing comparison for 406 AI models across 63 providers. All prices are per 1M tokens (input and output priced separately). Pricing data updated hourly.
| Model | Provider | Category | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) | inclusionai | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| Laguna S 2.1 (free) | poolside | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| Laguna XS 2.1 (free) | poolside | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| North Mini Code (free) | Cohere | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 256K | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 128K | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 1M | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 256K | Free / OSS |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS | |
| Gemma 4 31B (free) | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS | |
| Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 1.0M | Free / OSS | |
| Lyria 3 Clip Preview | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 1.0M | Free / OSS | |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 256K | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 128K | Free / OSS |
| Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 128K | Free / OSS |
| gpt-oss-20b (free) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 131.1K | Free / OSS |
| Midjourney v6.1 | Midjourney | Image Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Adobe Firefly 3 | Adobe | Image Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Leonardo Phoenix | Leonardo AI | Image Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Sora | OpenAI | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Runway Gen-3 Alpha | Runway | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Pika 2.0 | Pika | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| MiniMax Video-01 | MiniMax | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Luma Dream Machine | Luma AI | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Stable Video Diffusion | Stability AI | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Wan 2.1 T2V | Wan AI | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| LTX-Video 2 | Lightricks | Video Gen | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| SWE-1.5 | Windsurf | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| autofixer-01 | Vercel | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| Mellum | JetBrains | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 0K | Free / OSS |
| ALLaM 7B Instruct (preview) | HUMAIN | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 4.1K | Free / OSS |
| ALLaM 2 7B Instruct | HUMAIN | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 4.1K | Free / OSS |
| ALLaM 34B | HUMAIN | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 4.1K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 34B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 7B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 262.1K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 131.1K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon Arabic 7B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 32.8K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon3 10B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 32.8K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon3 7B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 32.8K | Free / OSS |
| Falcon Mamba 7B Instruct | TII | Coding / LLM | Free | Free | 32.8K | Free / OSS |
| Ling-2.6-flash | inclusionai | Coding / LLM | $0.01 | $0.03 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.02 | $0.03 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Ling-3.0-flash | inclusionai | Coding / LLM | $0.02 | $0.06 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Mistral Small 3 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.08 | 32.8K | Budget |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.08 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Granite 4.1 8B | IBM | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.10 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Reka Edge | rekaai | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.10 | 16.4K | Budget |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.10 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Gemma 3 4B | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.10 | 131.1K | Budget | |
| Granite 4.0 Micro | IBM | Coding / LLM | $0.02 | $0.11 | 131K | Budget |
| Laguna XS 2.1 | poolside | Coding / LLM | $0.06 | $0.12 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Gemma 3n 4B | Coding / LLM | $0.06 | $0.12 | 32.8K | Budget | |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.03 | $0.13 | 1M | Budget |
| gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.03 | $0.13 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Phi 4 | Microsoft | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.14 | 16.4K | Budget |
| Nova Micro 1.0 | Amazon | Coding / LLM | $0.04 | $0.14 | 128K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.15 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.15 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Gemma 3 12B | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.15 | 131.1K | Budget | |
| Command R7B (12-2024) | Cohere | Coding / LLM | $0.04 | $0.15 | 128K | Budget |
| gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.04 | $0.17 | 131.1K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.09 | $0.18 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Laguna S 2.1 | poolside | Coding / LLM | $0.09 | $0.18 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Llama Guard 4 12B | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.18 | $0.18 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.19 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.20 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $0.20 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT-5 Nano (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.02 | $0.20 | 400K | Budget |
| UI-TARS 7B | ByteDance | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.20 | 128K | Budget |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.20 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| GPT-4.1 Nano (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.20 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Reka Flash 3 | rekaai | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.20 | 65.5K | Budget |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.20 | 32.8K | Budget |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.03 | $0.20 | 60K | Budget |
| Hy3 preview | Tencent | Coding / LLM | $0.06 | $0.21 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 14B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.24 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | Amazon | Coding / LLM | $0.06 | $0.24 | 300K | Budget |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.09 | $0.25 | 256K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest | ~deepseek | Coding / LLM | $0.08 | $0.25 | 1.0M | Budget |
| GLM 5.2 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.08 | $0.26 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.26 | 1M | Budget |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.27 | 262.1K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.0M | Budget |
| MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | Coding / LLM | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.1M | Budget |
| Qwen3 32B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.08 | $0.28 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Step 3.5 Flash | StepFun | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.30 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | ByteDance | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.30 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.30 | 32K | Budget |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.30 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Llama 4 Scout | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.30 | 1.3M | Budget |
| GPT-4o-mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.30 | 128K | Budget |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.32 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.33 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Gemma 4 31B | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.34 | 262.1K | Budget | |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.40 | 262.1K | Budget | |
| Nemotron 3 Super | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | $0.08 | $0.40 | 1M | Budget |
| Seed-2.0-Mini | ByteDance | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.40 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.06 | $0.40 | 202.8K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.27 | $0.40 | 163.8K | Budget |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.05 | $0.40 | 400K | Budget |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.36 | $0.40 | 32.8K | Budget |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $0.40 | 131.1K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.27 | $0.41 | 163.8K | Budget |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.42 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Gemma 3 27B | Coding / LLM | $0.08 | $0.45 | 262.1K | Budget | |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.45 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.45 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Olmo 3 32B Think | Allen AI | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.50 | 65.5K | Budget |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.50 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Hy3 | Tencent | Coding / LLM | $0.13 | $0.53 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.09 | $0.55 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.35 | $0.55 | 128K | Budget |
| Hunyuan A13B Instruct | Tencent | Coding / LLM | $0.14 | $0.57 | 131.1K | Budget |
| KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | Kuaishou | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 256K | Budget |
| GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.60 | 1.1M | Budget |
| GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.60 | 1.1M | Budget |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.60 | 1.1M | Budget |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.60 | 1.1M | Budget |
| MiniMax M3 (batch) | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 524.3K | Budget |
| Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Solar Pro 3 | Upstage | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Saba | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $0.60 | 32.8K | Budget |
| Command R (08-2024) | Cohere | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | Budget |
| GPT-4o-mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | Budget |
| GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | Budget |
| WizardLM-2 8x22B | Microsoft | Coding / LLM | $0.62 | $0.62 | 65.5K | Budget |
| Ring-2.6-1T | inclusionai | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.63 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Ling-2.6-1T | inclusionai | Coding / LLM | $0.07 | $0.63 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT-5.4 Nano (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.10 | $0.63 | 400K | Budget |
| Gemma 2 27B | Coding / LLM | $0.65 | $0.65 | 8.2K | Budget | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $0.70 | 1.0M | Budget |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.13 | $0.75 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Mercury 2 | Inception | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $0.75 | 128K | Budget |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $0.75 | 128K | Budget |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $0.75 | 16.4K | Budget |
| Qwen Plus 0728 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.26 | $0.78 | 1M | Budget |
| Qwen-Plus | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.26 | $0.78 | 1M | Budget |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.12 | $0.80 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT-4.1 Mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $0.80 | 1.0M | Budget |
| R1 Distill Llama 70B | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.80 | $0.80 | 8.2K | Budget |
| Trinity Large Thinking | arcee-ai | Coding / LLM | $0.22 | $0.85 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GLM 4.5 Air | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.13 | $0.85 | 131.1K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.43 | $0.87 | 1.0M | Budget |
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro | Xiaomi | Coding / LLM | $0.43 | $0.87 | 1.1M | Budget |
| MiniMax M2.5 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.22 | $0.90 | 204.8K | Budget |
| GLM 4.6V | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $0.90 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Codestral 2508 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $0.90 | 256K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $0.95 | 163.8K | Budget |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $0.97 | 1M | Budget |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $1.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.14 | $1.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.27 | $1.00 | 163.8K | Budget |
| GPT-5 Mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.13 | $1.00 | 400K | Budget |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Sonar | Perplexity | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $1.00 | 127.1K | Budget |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.66 | $1.00 | 32.8K | Budget |
| MiniMax M2 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.26 | $1.02 | 204.8K | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.26 | $1.03 | 163.8K | Budget |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.09 | $1.10 | 262.1K | Budget |
| MiniMax-01 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $1.10 | 1.0M | Budget |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.27 | $1.12 | 163.8K | Budget |
| Qwen3.6 Flash | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.19 | $1.13 | 1M | Budget |
| Step 3.7 Flash | StepFun | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $1.15 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Inkling Small | thinkingmachines | Coding / LLM | $0.45 | $1.20 | 524.3K | Budget |
| LongCat 2.0 | Meituan | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1.0M | Budget |
| MiniMax M3 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1.0M | Budget |
| KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | Kuaishou | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 262.1K | Budget |
| MiniMax M2.7 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 204.8K | Budget |
| MiniMax M2-her | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 65.5K | Budget |
| MiniMax M2.1 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.20 | 204.8K | Budget |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $1.20 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $1.20 | 1M | Budget |
| Virtuoso Large | arcee-ai | Coding / LLM | $0.75 | $1.20 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $1.25 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $1.25 | 400K | Budget |
| Cogito v2.1 671B | deepcogito | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $1.25 | 128K | Budget |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | Baidu | Coding / LLM | $0.42 | $1.25 | 123K | Budget |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $1.25 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $1.25 | 200K | Budget |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.32 | $1.28 | 1M | Budget |
| Aion-3.0-Mini | aion-labs | Coding / LLM | $0.70 | $1.40 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | Image Gen | $0.25 | $1.50 | 65.5K | Budget | |
| Perceptron Mk1 | perceptron | Coding / LLM | $0.15 | $1.50 | 32.8K | Budget |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Mistral Large 3 2512 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $1.50 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $1.50 | 16.4K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5-27B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $1.56 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.26 | $1.56 | 1M | Budget |
| Aion-2.0 | aion-labs | Coding / LLM | $0.80 | $1.60 | 131.1K | Budget |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $1.60 | 1.0M | Budget |
| GLM 4.7 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $1.75 | 204.8K | Budget |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (batch) | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.80 | 512.3K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $1.80 | 1M | Budget |
| GLM 4.5V | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $1.80 | 65.5K | Budget |
| ALLaM 1 13B Instruct | HUMAIN | Coding / LLM | $1.80 | $1.80 | 4.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.45 | $1.82 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.21 | $1.90 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.33 | $1.95 | 1M | Budget |
| Kimi K2.7 Code (batch) | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.47 | $2.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Grok Build 0.1 | xAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K | Budget |
| Seed-2.0-Lite | ByteDance | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $2.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Seed 1.6 | ByteDance | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $2.00 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $2.00 | 400K | Budget |
| GPT-5 Image Mini | OpenAI | Image Gen | $2.50 | $2.00 | 400K | Budget |
| GLM 4.6 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $2.00 | 204.8K | Budget |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $2.00 | 131.1K | Budget |
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.25 | $2.00 | 400K | Budget |
| Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $2.00 | 131.1K | Budget |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $2.00 | 4.1K | Budget |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $2.00 | 4.1K | Budget |
| Inkling (batch) | thinkingmachines | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $2.02 | 524.3K | Budget |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.18 | $2.10 | 131.1K | Budget |
| R1 0528 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $2.15 | 163.8K | Budget |
| GLM 5.2 (batch) | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.70 | $2.20 | 512K | Budget |
| GLM 4.5 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $2.20 | 131.1K | Budget |
| MiniMax M1 | MiniMax | Coding / LLM | $0.55 | $2.20 | 1M | Budget |
| o4 Mini High (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.55 | $2.20 | 200K | Budget |
| o4 Mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.55 | $2.20 | 200K | Budget |
| o3 Mini High (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.55 | $2.20 | 200K | Budget |
| o3 Mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.55 | $2.20 | 200K | Budget |
| GPT-5.4 Mini (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.38 | $2.25 | 400K | Budget |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.23 | $2.30 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Kimi K2 0711 | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.57 | $2.30 | 131.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.39 | $2.34 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.29 | $2.40 | 262.1K | Budget |
| GPT Audio Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $2.40 | 128K | Budget |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $2.40 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.20 | $2.40 | 81.9K | Budget |
| Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.58 | $2.44 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| Grok 4.3 | xAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M | Budget |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | xAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M | Budget |
| Grok 4.20 | xAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M | Budget |
| Nova 2 Lite | Amazon | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | Budget |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $2.50 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $2.50 | 200K | Budget |
| Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | Image Gen | $0.30 | $2.50 | 32.8K | Budget | |
| Kimi K2 0905 | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $2.50 | 262.1K | Budget |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Coding / LLM | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.0M | Budget | |
| R1 | DeepSeek | Coding / LLM | $0.70 | $2.50 | 163.8K | Budget |
| Composer 2 | Cursor | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $2.50 | 200K | Budget |
| GLM 5 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.95 | $2.55 | 204.8K | Budget |
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.57 | $2.85 | 262.1K | Budget |
| KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | Kuaishou | Coding / LLM | $0.74 | $2.96 | 256K | Budget |
| GLM 5.1 | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $0.95 | $2.99 | 204.8K | Budget |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Image Gen | $0.50 | $3.00 | 131.1K | Standard | |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) | Image Gen | $0.50 | $3.00 | 65.5K | Standard | |
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Coding / LLM | $0.50 | $3.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Nova Pro 1.0 | Amazon | Coding / LLM | $0.80 | $3.20 | 300K | Standard |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.65 | $3.25 | 1M | Standard |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $0.70 | $3.50 | 262.1K | Standard |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | NVIDIA | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $3.60 | 512.3K | Standard |
| Qwen3.6 27B | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262.1K | Standard |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Qwen3 Max Thinking | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.78 | $3.90 | 262.1K | Standard |
| Qwen3 Max | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.78 | $3.90 | 262.1K | Standard |
| GLM 5V Turbo | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $1.20 | $4.00 | 202.8K | Standard |
| GLM 5 Turbo | Zhipu AI | Coding / LLM | $1.20 | $4.00 | 202.8K | Standard |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $0.40 | $4.00 | 131.1K | Standard |
| o3 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $4.00 | 200K | Standard |
| GPT-4.1 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $4.00 | 1.0M | Standard |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $4.00 | 16.4K | Standard |
| Inkling | thinkingmachines | Coding / LLM | $0.95 | $4.05 | 1.0M | Standard |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | meta | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M | Standard |
| Muse Spark 1.1 | meta | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M | Standard |
| o4 Mini High | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | Standard |
| o4 Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | Standard |
| o3 Mini High | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | Standard |
| o3 Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | Standard |
| Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M | Standard |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.75 | $4.50 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| OpenAI GPT Mini Latest | ~openai | Coding / LLM | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5.4 Mini | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400K | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $5.00 | 1M | Standard |
| Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest | ~anthropic | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | Standard |
| GPT-5.1 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.63 | $5.00 | 400K | Standard |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | Standard |
| GPT-5 Codex (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.63 | $5.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.63 | $5.00 | 400K | Standard |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) | Coding / LLM | $0.63 | $5.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| GPT-4o (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $5.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| Grok 4.5 | xAI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | Standard |
| Grok Latest | ~x-ai | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | Standard |
| Aion-3.0 | aion-labs | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $6.00 | 131.1K | Standard |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) | Coding / LLM | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Palmyra X5 | Writer | Coding / LLM | $0.60 | $6.00 | 1.0M | Standard |
| Mistral Large 2407 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 131.1K | Standard |
| Mixtral 8x22B Instruct | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 65.5K | Standard |
| Mistral Large | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $6.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Alibaba | Coding / LLM | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262.1K | Standard |
| GPT-5.2 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $0.88 | $7.00 | 400K | Standard |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262.1K | Standard |
| Google Gemini Flash Latest | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| GPT-5.4 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $7.50 | 1.1M | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Composer 2 Fast | Cursor | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $7.50 | 200K | Standard |
| Jamba Large 1.7 | AI21 Labs | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $8.00 | 256K | Standard |
| o3 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K | Standard |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M | Standard |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | Perplexity | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $8.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Sonar Deep Research | Perplexity | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $8.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Coding / LLM | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | Standard |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest | ~anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | Standard |
| GPT Audio | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-5.1-Codex-Max | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5.1-Codex | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5 Image | OpenAI | Image Gen | $10.00 | $10.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K | Standard |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | Coding / LLM | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Command A | Cohere | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 256K | Standard |
| GPT-4o (2024-11-20) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Command R+ (08-2024) | Cohere | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-4o (2024-08-06) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | Image Gen | $2.00 | $12.00 | 131.1K | Standard | |
| Google Gemini Pro Latest | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Coding / LLM | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M | Standard | |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) | Image Gen | $2.00 | $12.00 | 65.5K | Standard | |
| Claude Opus 5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Opus 4.5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 200K | Standard |
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Amazon | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | Standard |
| MoonshotAI Kimi Latest | ~moonshotai | Coding / LLM | $2.80 | $14.00 | 1.0M | Standard |
| GPT-5.3 Chat | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.75 | $14.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-5.3-Codex | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5.2-Codex | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K | Standard |
| GPT-5.2 Chat | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.75 | $14.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K | Standard |
| Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.5 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| GPT-5.4 Image 2 | OpenAI | Image Gen | $8.00 | $15.00 | 272K | Standard |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | Standard |
| Sonar Pro Search | Perplexity | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | Standard |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | Standard |
| Sonar Pro | Perplexity | Coding / LLM | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | Standard |
| GPT-4o (2024-05-13) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $15.00 | 128K | Standard |
| GPT-4 Turbo (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $15.00 | 128K | Standard |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Fable 5 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus Latest | ~anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K | Premium |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| Fugu Ultra | sakana | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1M | Premium |
| GPT Chat Latest | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 400K | Premium |
| OpenAI GPT Latest | ~openai | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| o1 (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $7.50 | $30.00 | 200K | Premium |
| GPT-4 Turbo | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $30.00 | 128K | Premium |
| GPT-4 Turbo Preview | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $30.00 | 128K | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.1 (batch) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $7.50 | $37.50 | 200K | Premium |
| o3 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $40.00 | 200K | Premium |
| Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Fable Latest | ~anthropic | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Premium |
| GPT-5 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $7.50 | $60.00 | 400K | Premium |
| o1 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $60.00 | 200K | Premium |
| GPT-4 | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $30.00 | $60.00 | 8.2K | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $75.00 | 200K | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $75.00 | 200K | Premium |
| o3 Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $20.00 | $80.00 | 200K | Premium |
| GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $10.50 | $84.00 | 400K | Premium |
| GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $90.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| GPT-5.4 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $90.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| GPT-5 Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $15.00 | $120.00 | 400K | Premium |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) | Anthropic | Coding / LLM | $30.00 | $150.00 | 1M | Premium |
| GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $21.00 | $168.00 | 400K | Premium |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $30.00 | $180.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| GPT-5.4 Pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $30.00 | $180.00 | 1.1M | Premium |
| o1-pro (batch) | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $75.00 | $300.00 | 200K | Premium |
| o1-pro | OpenAI | Coding / LLM | $150.00 | $600.00 | 200K | Premium |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 | Stability AI | Image Gen | Free | $35000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| DALL-E 3 | OpenAI | Image Gen | Free | $40000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| Recraft V3 | Recraft | Image Gen | Free | $40000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| Imagen 3 | Image Gen | Free | $40000.00 | 0K | Premium | |
| FLUX.1 Pro | Black Forest Labs | Image Gen | Free | $50000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| Kling 1.6 | Kuaishou | Video Gen | Free | $70000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| Ideogram 2.0 | Ideogram | Image Gen | Free | $80000.00 | 0K | Premium |
| Veo 2 | Video Gen | Free | $350000.00 | 0K | Premium |
Prices are for standard API access. Batch and cached pricing may differ. "Free" refers to open-weight models or models with $0 API cost; self-hosting compute costs apply.
Understanding Pricing Tiers
AI model pricing generally falls into four tiers. Choose based on your performance requirements and budget.
Free / Open-Source
$0
Models with open weights that can be self-hosted at no API cost. Includes Llama 4, Qwen 3.5, and Gemma 3. You pay only for compute if self-hosting.
Best for: Privacy-sensitive workloads, experimentation, cost-conscious teams
Budget
$0.01 - $2.99 / 1M output tokens
Lightweight or optimized models offering strong performance at very low cost. DeepSeek V3.1, Gemini Flash, and GPT-4.1 mini fall in this range.
Best for: High-volume production, chatbots, classification, summarization
Standard
$3.00 - $19.99 / 1M output tokens
The workhorse tier. Models like Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, and Grok 4.1 deliver excellent reasoning and coding at moderate prices.
Best for: Most production use cases, coding assistants, complex analysis
Premium
$20.00+ / 1M output tokens
Frontier models offering the absolute best performance. Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, and o3 push the boundaries of reasoning, coding, and creativity.
Best for: Research, complex reasoning, agentic workflows, code generation
Key Takeaways
Output tokens cost 2-5x more than input tokens
Every provider charges significantly more for output (generated) tokens than input (prompt) tokens. For cost optimization, keep prompts detailed but request concise outputs.
Open-source models offer the best value at scale
Self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen 3.5 eliminates per-token costs entirely. For high-volume workloads (10M+ tokens/day), the infrastructure savings can be substantial.
The "standard" tier offers the best performance per dollar
Models like Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3 Pro achieve 90%+ of frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. Most production applications should start here.
Calculate Your Actual Costs
Use our AI price calculator to estimate monthly costs based on your specific workload: tokens per request, requests per day, and model choice.
Most AI APIs charge per token processed, with separate rates for input (your prompt) and output (the model's response). Prices are typically quoted per 1 million tokens. Output tokens usually cost 2-5x more than input tokens because they require more computation.
Many open-source models like Llama and Qwen are available for free when self-hosted. For API access, budget-tier models like GPT-4o Mini, Gemini Flash, and DeepSeek V3 offer the lowest per-token costs while still delivering strong performance.
A typical conversational exchange uses about 500-1,000 input tokens and 200-500 output tokens. Code generation tasks tend to use more tokens. As a rough guide, 1 million tokens equals approximately 750,000 words of text.
Yes. Google offers free Gemini API access with rate limits. OpenAI, Anthropic, and others provide free trial credits. Many open-source models can be accessed for free through providers like Groq and Together AI with usage limits.