AI model price trends
What models cost now, what changed recently, and what each capability costs at the cheapest end. Prices are versioned rather than silently replaced; every figure has a source, an effective date and a verification date.
- Anthropic Claude 5.5 HaikuDigitalOcean · input · 10/15/2026$0.50$0.10 (-80%)
- Anthropic Claude 5.5 HaikuDigitalOcean · output · 10/15/2026$2.50$0.50 (-80%)
- GLM-5.3-Flashz-ai · input · 10/15/2026$0.15$0.04 (-76%)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 ThinkingNanoGPT · output · 10/15/2026$2.50$0.99 (-60%)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813NanoGPT · output · 10/15/2026$2.50$0.99 (-60%)
- Qwen3.8 27Bopenrouter · input · 10/15/2026$0.04$0.24 (+500%)
- Qwen3.8 27Bqwen · input · 10/15/2026$0.04$0.24 (+500%)
- Gemma 4 31B ITopenrouter · input · 10/15/2026$0.09$0.20 (+122%)
- Gemma 4 31B ITgoogle · input · 10/15/2026$0.09$0.20 (+122%)
- GPT-5.6 Solopenrouter · input · 10/15/2026$2.00$4.00 (+100%)
Cheapest model that can…
Lowest blended price ((3 × input + output) ÷ 4, USD per 1M tokens) among model makers' own API listings that report the capability. Cheapest is not best: check quality on your own test set.
- 1gpt-oss-20b$0.04
- 2Ministral 3B (latest)$0.04
- 3Qwen3.7 Flash$0.06
- 1gpt-oss-20b$0.04
- 2Granite 4.0 Micro$0.04
- 3Qwen3.7 Flash$0.06
- 1gpt-oss-20b$0.04
- 2Qwen3.7 Flash$0.06
- 3Mercury 2.5$0.07
- 1Ministral 3B (latest)$0.04
- 2Qwen3.7 Flash$0.06
- 3Gemma 3 4B$0.06
- 1Qwen3 Coder Next$0.29
- 2Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.48
- 3Qwen3 Coder Flash$0.60
- 1text-embedding-3-small$0.02
- 2Mistral Embed$0.08
- 3text-embedding-ada-002$0.08
Price vs context window
Each dot is a model maker's API listing. Lower and further right means more context for less money. Hover for details.
All current prices
535 of 9,225 catalog listings, cheapest first.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
DeepSeek
DeepSeek Flash Latest
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
IBM
Granite 4.0 Micro
OpenAI
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI
text-embedding-3-small
OpenAI
gpt-oss-20b (batch)
OpenAI
GPT-5 Nano (batch)
Meta
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
OpenAI
gpt-oss-120b (batch)
Alibaba
Qwen3.7 Flash
Qwen
Qwen3.7 Flash
Alibaba
Qwen3-ASR Flash
Amazon
Nova Micro 1.0
Z.AI
GLM Flash Latest
Cohere
Command R7B Arabic
Cohere
Command R7B
Inception
Mercury 2.5
Mistral
Ministral 3B (latest)
OpenAI
GPT-5 Nano
Alibaba
Qwen Flash
Alibaba
Qwen Turbo
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Gemma 3 12B
Gemma 3 4B
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 Nano (batch)
OpenAI
GPT-6 Luna (batch)
OpenAI
GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)
Liquid
LFM2.5-24B-A2B
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Mistral
Mistral Small 3
Upstage
Solar Mini 4
Meta
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Z.AI
GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)
Z.AI
GLM Latest
IBM
Granite 4.2 8B
Amazon
Nova Lite 1.0
Qwen
Qwen3.5-Flash
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.7-FlashX
Z.AI
GLM-4.7-FlashX
Alibaba
Qwen-Omni Turbo
Alibaba
Qwen-VL OCR
Microsoft
Phi 4
Qwen
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
OpenAI
GPT-4o-mini (batch)
OpenAI
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b