AI API PricingCost per Token 2026

How much does it cost to use GPT, Claude, Gemini and other LLM APIs? Compare pricing per million tokens — input and output rates for every major model.

Last updated: October 15, 2026 • 811 APIs listed

811

APIs listed

190

With free tier

$0.020

Cheapest (input/1M)

$150.00

Most expensive (input/1M)

How to read the table: prices are per million tokens (input = what you send; output = the model's response). In English, 1,000 tokens ≈ 750 words ≈ 1 A4 page. Prices verified on each company's official pricing page.

Price per Million Tokens — Paid APIs

#ModelInput USD/1M
1Gemma 4 E4B (Non-reasoning)$0.020
2Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)$0.020
3OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)$0.024
4Sarvam 30B$0.026
5Mistral: Mistral Nemo$0.029
6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)$0.030
7Qwen3.5 4B (Non-reasoning)$0.030
8Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)$0.030
9Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)$0.030
10Granite 4.2 3B$0.030
11Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0$0.035
12Llama 3.1 8B Instruct$0.035
13Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct$0.040
14HyperNova 60B 2605$0.040
15NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)$0.040
16Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris$0.040
17Sarvam 105B (high)$0.042
18Arcee AI: Trinity Mini$0.045
19Llama 3 8B Instruct$0.045
20Qwen2.5 Turbo$0.050
21Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)$0.050
22Granite 4.1 8B$0.050
23Llama 2 Chat 7B$0.050
24Mistral Small 3$0.050
25NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.050
26NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B$0.050
27NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2$0.050
28GPT-5 Nano$0.050
29GPT-5 nano (medium)$0.050
30GPT-5 nano (minimal)$0.050
31OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)$0.050
32OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)$0.050
33Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0$0.060
34Gemma 3n 4B$0.060
35Gemma 3n E4B Instruct$0.060
36Granite 4.0 H Small$0.060
37Granite 4.2 8B$0.060
38MythoMax 13B$0.060
39Nemotron 3.5 Lightning$0.060
40Hy3-preview (Non-reasoning)$0.063
41Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking$0.070
42gpt-oss-20b$0.070
43gpt-oss-20b (low)$0.070
44GLM-4.7-Flash (Non-reasoning)$0.070
45Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash$0.070
46ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash$0.075
47Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite$0.075
48Ling 3.0 Flash$0.075
49Ling-3.0-flash-Fin$0.075
50Ling-3.0-flash-VL$0.075
51Phi-4 Mini Instruct$0.075
52Mistral Small 3.2$0.075
53Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)$0.075
54Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (batch)$0.075
55gpt-oss-safeguard-20b$0.075
56Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507$0.080
57Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct$0.080
58Mistral Small 3.1$0.080
59Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B$0.090
60DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423$0.091
61Qwen3.5 Omni Flash$0.100
62Olmo 3 7B Instruct$0.100
63Claude Haiku 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)$0.100
64Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback)$0.100
65Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)$0.100
66Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback)$0.100
67Claude Haiku 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)$0.100
68ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B$0.100
69Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.100
70Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)$0.100
71Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning)$0.100
72Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning)$0.100
73Gemma 4 12B (Non-reasoning)$0.100
74Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)$0.100
75Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.100
76Ling 2.6 Flash$0.100
77Ministral 3 3B$0.100
78Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507$0.100
79GPT-4.1 Nano$0.100
80GPT-6 Luna (high)$0.100
81GPT-6 Luna (low)$0.100
82GPT-6 Luna (max)$0.100
83GPT-6 Luna (medium)$0.100
84GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning)$0.100
85GPT-6 Luna (xhigh)$0.100
86OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)$0.100
87OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)$0.100
88OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro$0.100
89Reka Edge$0.100
90Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta$0.100
91Step 3.5 Flash$0.100
92Apertus 8B Instruct$0.100
93Solar Mini 4$0.100
94MiMo-V2-Flash (Reasoning)$0.100
95Z.ai: GLM 4 32B$0.100
96DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)$0.110
97DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)$0.110
98Mistral: Ministral 8B$0.110
99DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort)$0.112
100DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Non-reasoning)$0.112
101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)$0.112
102Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.120
103Qwen3 14B (Non-reasoning)$0.120
104Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)$0.120
105Microsoft: Phi 4$0.125
106Gemma 4 26B A4B (Non-reasoning)$0.130
107Nous: Hermes 4 70B$0.130
108Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B (Non-reasoning)$0.130
109Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B (Reasoning)$0.130
110Qwen3 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.135
111Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning)$0.135
112Nex AGI: DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1$0.135
113Hy3-preview (Reasoning)$0.136
114Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B$0.140
115Ling-flash-2.0$0.140
116Ring-flash-2.0$0.140
117NousResearch: Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B$0.140
118Tencent: Hunyuan A13B Instruct$0.140
119MiMo-V2.5$0.140
120MiMo-V2.6-Flash$0.140
121Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.149
122Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct$0.150
123Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct$0.150
124Qwen3 32B (Non-reasoning)$0.150
125Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Reasoning)$0.150
126Qwen3.8-Flash-Next$0.150
127EssentialAI: Rnj 1 Instruct$0.150
128Ministral 3 8B$0.150
129Mistral 7B Instruct$0.150
130Mistral Small (Feb '24)$0.150
131Mistral Small 4 (Non-reasoning)$0.150
132Mistral: Codestral 2508 (batch)$0.150
133GPT-4o-mini Search Preview$0.150
134gpt-oss-120b$0.150
135gpt-oss-120b (low)$0.150
136OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini$0.150
137Solar Mini$0.150
138Solar Pro 3$0.150
139GLM-5.3-Flash$0.150
140Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct$0.160
141Qwen3 VL 32B (Reasoning)$0.160
142Granite 4.2 30B$0.160
143Gemma 4 31B (Non-reasoning)$0.165
144Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)$0.170
145TheDrummer: Rocinante 12B$0.170
146Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air$0.170
147Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct$0.180
148Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)$0.180
149Qwen3 VL 8B (Reasoning)$0.180
150Arcee AI: Spotlight$0.180
151Llama 4 Scout$0.180
152Llama Guard 4 12B$0.180
153Jamba 1.5 Mini$0.200
154Jamba 1.6 Mini$0.200
155Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct$0.200
156Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning)$0.200
157MiniMax: MiniMax-01$0.200
158Ministral 3 14B$0.200
159Mistral Small (Sep '24)$0.200
160Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)$0.200
161Mistral: Saba$0.200
162NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Non-reasoning)$0.200
163NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)$0.200
164GPT-5.4 Nano$0.200
165GPT-5.4 nano (medium)$0.200
166GPT-5.4 nano (Non-Reasoning)$0.200
167GPT-5.6 Luna (high)$0.200
168GPT-5.6 Luna (low)$0.200
169GPT-5.6 Luna (max)$0.200
170GPT-5.6 Luna (medium)$0.200
171GPT-5.6 Luna (Non-reasoning)$0.200
172GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh)$0.200
173OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro$0.200
174Reka Flash 3$0.200
175Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning)$0.200
176Step 3.7 Flash$0.200
177Celeris-1$0.200
178Grok 4 Fast$0.200
179Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct$0.210
180Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.215
181DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp$0.216
182Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.220
183Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)$0.230
184Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)$0.240
185DeepSeek V3 0324$0.240
186Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct$0.250
187Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.250
188Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.250
189Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct$0.250
190Qwen3.5 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)$0.250
191Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku$0.250
192Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking$0.250
193ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite$0.250
194Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview$0.250
195Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)$0.250
196Inception: Mercury 2$0.250
197Mercury 2.5$0.250
198Llama 4 Maverick$0.250
199Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 (batch)$0.250
200GPT-5 Mini$0.250
201GPT-5 mini (medium)$0.250
202GPT-5 mini (minimal)$0.250
203GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini$0.250
204DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus$0.270
205Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B$0.280
206DeepSeek V3.2$0.280
207DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoning)$0.280
208DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Non-reasoning)$0.280
209DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Reasoning)$0.280
210Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B$0.300
211Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct$0.300
212Qwen3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)$0.300
213Amazon: Nova 2 Lite$0.300
214Nova 2.0 Omni (low)$0.300
215Nova 2.0 Omni (medium)$0.300
216Nova 2.0 Omni (Non-reasoning)$0.300
217Apodex 1.1$0.300
218DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-Reasoning)$0.300
219DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.300
220Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.300
221Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Reasoning)$0.300
222Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.300
223Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)$0.300
224Ling-2.6-1T$0.300
225Ling 3.1 Flash$0.300
226Ring-2.6-1T$0.300
227Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2$0.300
228Muse Glimmer (high)$0.300
229MiniMax-M2$0.300
230MiniMax-M3$0.300
231MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her$0.300
232MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1$0.300
233MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5$0.300
234MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7$0.300
235Mistral: Codestral 2508$0.300
236Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct$0.300
237Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning$0.300
238NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)$0.300
239Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)$0.300
240TheDrummer: Cydonia 24B V4.1$0.300
241Inkling Small$0.300
242Solar Pro 4$0.300
243Grok 3 Mini Beta$0.300
244GLM-4.6V (Reasoning)$0.300
245DeepSeek V3$0.320
246Nova 2.0 Lite (high)$0.330
247Nova 2.0 Lite (low)$0.330
248Nova 2.0 Lite (medium)$0.330
249Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct$0.345
250Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.350
251Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)$0.360
252Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B$0.375
253Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)$0.375
254Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)$0.375
255Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)$0.375
256Google: Gemma 4 31B (batch)$0.390
257Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B$0.400
258Qwen3 VL 235B A22B (Reasoning)$0.400
259Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Non-reasoning)$0.400
260Qwen3.5 Omni Plus$0.400
261Qwen3.7 Plus$0.400
262MiniMax: MiniMax M1$0.400
263Mistral: Mistral Medium 3$0.400
264Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1$0.400
265Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Non-reasoning)$0.400
266Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)$0.400
267GPT-4.1 Mini$0.400
268TheDrummer: UnslopNemo 12B$0.400
269Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B$0.420
270DeepSeek V4 Pro (Non-reasoning)$0.435
271DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, High Effort)$0.435
272MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Non-reasoning)$0.435
273MiMo-V2.6-Pro$0.435
274Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro$0.435
275DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Reasoning, Max Effort)$0.440
276DeepSeek-V4-Flash$0.440
277Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct$0.450
278ReMM SLERP 13B$0.450
279Qwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.475
280Llama Guard 3 8B$0.480
281Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next$0.500
282Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus$0.500
283Qwen3 VL 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.500
284Qwen3.8 27B (low)$0.500
285Qwen3.8 27B (medium)$0.500
286Qwen3.8 27B (Non-reasoning)$0.500
287Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)$0.500
288Arcee AI: Coder Large$0.500
289Command-R (Mar '24)$0.500
290Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning)$0.500
291Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning)$0.500
292Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)$0.500
293Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)$0.500
294Magistral Small 1.2$0.500
295Mistral Large 3$0.500
296Nex-N2-Pro$0.500
297GPT-3.5 Turbo$0.500
298MiniMax M1 80k$0.550
299OpenAI: o3 Mini High (batch)$0.550
300OpenAI: o4 Mini High (batch)$0.550
301TheDrummer: Skyfall 36B V2$0.550
302DeepSeek V3.1$0.560
303Llama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.560
304Kimi K2$0.570
305MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711$0.570
306GLM-4.6 (Reasoning)$0.575
307DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)$0.580
308Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B$0.600
309Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning)$0.600
310Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)$0.600
311Kimi K2 Thinking$0.600
312Kimi K2.5 (Non-reasoning)$0.600
313MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905$0.600
314MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5$0.600
315Quasar 438B$0.600
316Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)$0.600
317Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)$0.600
318GPT Audio Mini$0.600
319Writer: Palmyra X5$0.600
320GLM-4.7 (Non-reasoning)$0.600
321GLM-4.5V (Reasoning)$0.600
322WizardLM-2 8x22B$0.620
323Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch)$0.625
324Gemma 2 27B$0.650
325Llama 3 70B Instruct$0.650
326Sao10K: Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B$0.650
327QwQ 32B$0.660
328DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)$0.660
329Mistral: Mistral Large 4$0.680
330Qwen3 235B A22B (Reasoning)$0.700
331R1 Distill Llama 70B$0.700
332Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B$0.700
333Llama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.710
334Arcee AI: Virtuoso Large$0.750
335Gemini 3.6 Flash (high)$0.750
336Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)$0.750
337Gemini 3.7 Flash (low)$0.750
338Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium)$0.750
339Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)$0.750
340Gemini 3.8 Flash (low)$0.750
341Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium)$0.750
342Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)$0.750
343LongCat 2.0$0.750
344Mancer: Weaver (alpha)$0.750
345Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 (batch)$0.750
346GPT-5.4 Mini$0.750
347GPT-5.4 mini (medium)$0.750
348GPT-5.4 mini (Non-Reasoning)$0.750
349Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking$0.780
350AionLabs: Aion-2.0$0.800
351AionLabs: Aion-RP 1.0 (8B)$0.800
352AlfredPros: CodeLLaMa 7B Instruct Solidity$0.800
353Amazon: Nova Pro 1.0$0.800
354Morph: Morph V3 Fast$0.800
355Apertus 70B Instruct$0.820
356Relace: Relace Apply 3$0.850
357Sao10K: Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2$0.850
358Arcee AI: Maestro Reasoning$0.900
359Morph: Morph V3 Large$0.900
360Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning)$0.950
361Kimi K2.7 Code$0.950
362DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423$0.955
363Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)$1.00
364Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)$1.00
365Claude Haiku 4.5$1.00
366Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)$1.00
367Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch)$1.00
368Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct$1.00
369Nous: Hermes 4 405B$1.00
370Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Non-reasoning)$1.00
371Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning)$1.00
372OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)$1.00
373OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)$1.00
374OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro (batch)$1.00
375OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)$1.00
376OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)$1.00
377Relace: Relace Search$1.00
378Step 5 Preview$1.00
379Inkling$1.00
380Grok Build 0.1 0616$1.00
381SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3 (batch)$1.00
382SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1$1.00
383GLM-5 (Non-reasoning)$1.00
384o3 Mini$1.10
385o3 Mini High$1.10
386o4 Mini$1.10
387o4 Mini High$1.10
388Qwen: Qwen3 Max$1.20
389Qwen3 Max (Preview)$1.20
390Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview)$1.20
391Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct$1.20
392Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo$1.20
393Cogito v2.1 (Reasoning)$1.25
394Deep Cogito: Cogito v2.1 671B$1.25
395Gemini 2.5 Pro$1.25
396Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (May' 25)$1.25
397Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06$1.25
398Muse Spark 1.1$1.25
399Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)$1.25
400Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)$1.25
401Muse Spark 1.3 (max)$1.25
402Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)$1.25
403GPT-5$1.25
404GPT-5 (low)$1.25
405GPT-5 (medium)$1.25
406GPT-5 (minimal)$1.25
407GPT-5 Codex$1.25
408GPT-5.1$1.25
409GPT-5.1 (Non-reasoning)$1.25
410GPT-5.1-Codex$1.25
411Grok 4.20 0309 v2 (Non-reasoning)$1.25
412Grok 4.3 (low)$1.25
413Grok 4.3 (medium)$1.25
414Grok 4.3 (Non-reasoning)$1.25
415SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20$1.25
416SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent$1.25
417SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3$1.25
418Z.ai: GLM 5.1$1.28
419Qwen3.6 Max Preview$1.30
420DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)$1.32
421DeepSeek: R1$1.35
422Mistral Large 4 Preview$1.36
423Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (low)$1.38
424Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)$1.38
425GLM-5.1 (Non-reasoning)$1.38
426GLM-5.2 (Non-reasoning)$1.40
427GLM-5.3 (low)$1.40
428GLM-5.3$1.40
429Sao10k: Llama 3 Euryale 70B v2.1$1.48
430Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch)$1.50
431Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium)$1.50
432Gemini 3.5 Flash (minimal)$1.50
433Gemini 3.6 Flash$1.50
434Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash$1.50
435Google: Nano Banana 2.1$1.50
436Mistral Medium$1.50
437Mistral Medium 3.5$1.50
438DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)$1.64
439GPT-5.2$1.75
440GPT-5.2 (medium)$1.75
441GPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)$1.75
442GPT-5.2-Codex$1.75
443GPT-5.3 Chat$1.75
444GPT-5.3-Codex$1.75
445AI21: Jamba Large 1.7$2.00
446Jamba 1.5 Large$2.00
447Jamba 1.6 Large$2.00
448Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B$2.00
449Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max$2.00
450Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)$2.00
451Claude Sonnet 5$2.00
452Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)$2.00
453Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)$2.00
454Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)$2.00
455Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort)$2.00
456Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)$2.00
457Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback)$2.00
458Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback)$2.00
459Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)$2.00
460Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort, Default Fallback)$2.00
461Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort, Default Fallback)$2.00
462DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25)$2.00
463Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)$2.00
464Gemini 3 Pro Preview (low)$2.00
465Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00
466Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools$2.00
467Gemini 4 Argon (High)$2.00
468Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)$2.00
469Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)$2.00
470Mistral Large 2 (Jul '24)$2.00
471Magistral Medium 1.2$2.00
472GPT-4.1$2.00
473GPT-5.6 Terra (high)$2.00
474GPT-5.6 Terra (low)$2.00
475GPT-5.6 Terra (max)$2.00
476GPT-5.6 Terra (medium)$2.00
477GPT-5.6 Terra (Non-reasoning)$2.00
478GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh)$2.00
479GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max)$2.00
480GPT-6 Sol (high)$2.00
481GPT-6 Sol (low)$2.00
482GPT-6 Sol (max)$2.00
483GPT-6 Sol (medium)$2.00
484GPT-6 Sol (Non-reasoning)$2.00
485GPT-6 Sol (xhigh)$2.00
486GPT-6.1 Sol (high)$2.00
487GPT-6.1 Sol (low)$2.00
488GPT-6.1 Sol (max)$2.00
489GPT-6.1 Sol (medium)$2.00
490GPT-6.1 Sol (xhigh)$2.00
491o3$2.00
492o4 Mini Deep Research$2.00
493OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)$2.00
494OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro$2.00
495OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro$2.00
496Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research$2.00
497Grok 4.20 0309 (Non-reasoning)$2.00
498Grok 4.6 (low)$2.00
499Grok 4.6 (medium)$2.00
500Grok 4.6 (xhigh)$2.00
501Grok 4.7 (high)$2.00
502Grok 4.7 (Low)$2.00
503Grok 4.7 (xhigh)$2.00
504Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)$2.00
505SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5$2.00
506SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6$2.00
507Qwen3.7 Max$2.50
508Nova Premier$2.50
509Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)$2.50
510Cohere: Command A$2.50
511Cohere: Command R+ (08-2024)$2.50
512Inflection: Inflection 3 Pi$2.50
513Inflection: Inflection 3 Productivity$2.50
514Llama 3.1 Instruct 405B$2.50
515GPT Audio$2.50
516GPT-4o (2024-08-06)$2.50
517GPT-4o (2024-11-20)$2.50
518GPT-4o Audio$2.50
519GPT-4o Search Preview$2.50
520GPT-5 Image Mini$2.50
521GPT-5.4$2.50
522GPT-5.4 (low)$2.50
523GPT-5.4 (Non-reasoning)$2.50
524OpenAI: GPT-4o$2.50
525Claude 3 Sonnet$3.00
526Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June '24)$3.00
527Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24)$3.00
528Claude 3.7 Sonnet$3.00
529Claude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning)$3.00
530Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Non-reasoning)$3.00
531Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)$3.00
532Claude Sonnet 4$3.00
533Claude Sonnet 4.5$3.00
534Claude Sonnet 4.6$3.00
535Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)$3.00
536Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)$3.00
537Command-R+ (Apr '24)$3.00
538Kimi K3 (low)$3.00
539Magnum v4 72B$3.00
540Kimi K3$3.00
541OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k$3.00
542Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search$3.00
543Sao10K: Llama 3.1 70B Hanami x1$3.00
544Grok 3 Reasoning Beta$3.00
545Grok 3 Beta$3.00
546Grok 4$3.00
547Goliath 120B$3.75
548AionLabs: Aion-1.0$4.00
549Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback)$4.00
550Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback)$4.00
551Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)$4.00
552Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort, Default Fallback)$4.00
553Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort, Default Fallback)$4.00
554Muse Wonder (Max)$4.00
555Mistral Large 2 (Nov '24)$4.00
556Mistral Large$4.00
557GPT-5.6 Sol (high)$4.00
558GPT-5.6 Sol (low)$4.00
559GPT-5.6 Sol (max)$4.00
560GPT-5.6 Sol (medium)$4.00
561GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning)$4.00
562GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh)$4.00
563Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)$5.00
564Claude Opus 4.5$5.00
565Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)$5.00
566Claude Opus 4.6$5.00
567Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)$5.00
568Claude Opus 4.7$5.00
569Claude Opus 4.7 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)$5.00
570Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)$5.00
571Claude Opus 5$5.00
572Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)$5.00
573Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)$5.00
574Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)$5.00
575Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort)$5.00
576GPT Chat Latest$5.00
577GPT-5.5$5.00
578GPT-5.5 (high)$5.00
579GPT-5.5 (low)$5.00
580GPT-5.5 (medium)$5.00
581GPT-5.5 (Non-reasoning)$5.00
582GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026)$5.00
583GPT-5.5 Instant (May 2026)$5.00
584OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-05-13)$5.00
585OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)$5.00
586OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch)$5.00
587Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 (batch)$7.50
588OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro (batch)$7.50
589GPT-5.4 Image 2$8.00
590Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)$10.00
591Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback)$10.00
592Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback)$10.00
593Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)$10.00
594Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort, Default Fallback)$10.00
595Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort, Default Fallback)$10.00
596GPT-4 Turbo$10.00
597GPT-5 Image$10.00
598GPT-6 Astra (high)$10.00
599GPT-6 Astra (low)$10.00
600GPT-6 Astra (max)$10.00
601GPT-6 Astra (medium)$10.00
602GPT-6 Astra (xhigh)$10.00
603o3 Deep Research$10.00
604OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro$10.00
605OpenAI: o3 Pro (batch)$10.00
606OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro (batch)$10.50
607Claude 3 Opus$15.00
608Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)$15.00
609Claude 4.1 Opus (Non-reasoning)$15.00
610Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)$15.00
611Claude Opus 4$15.00
612Claude Opus 4.1$15.00
613o1$15.00
614OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Pro (batch)$15.00
615OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro (batch)$15.00
616o1-preview$16.50
617o3 Pro$20.00
618GPT-5.4 Pro$30.00
619OpenAI: GPT-4$30.00
620OpenAI: o1-pro (batch)$75.00
621o1-pro$150.00

APIs with Free Tier

These models offer free API access (with rate limits). Ideal for prototypes and low-volume projects.

Apriel-v1.5-15B-Thinker

ServiceNow

Free

Apriel-v1.6-15B-Thinker

ServiceNow

Free

Arctic Instruct

Snowflake

Free

Claude 2.0

Anthropic

Free

Claude 2.1

Anthropic

Free

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Anthropic

Free

Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)

Anthropic

Free

Claude Instant

Anthropic

Free

Command A+

Cohere

Free

DBRX Instruct

Databricks

Free

DeepHermes 3 - Llama-3.1 8B Preview (Non-reasoning)

Nous Research

Free

DeepHermes 3 - Mistral 24B Preview (Non-reasoning)

Nous Research

Free

DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat (V1)

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek-V2-Chat

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek-V2.5

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec '24)

DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Free

Devstral 2

Mistral

Free

Devstral Small (Jul '25)

Mistral

Free

Devstral Small (May '25)

Mistral

Free

Devstral Small 2

Mistral

Free

DiffusionGemma 26B A4B

Google

Free

Doubao Seed Code

ByteDance

Free

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Baidu

Free

EXAONE 4.0 32B (Non-reasoning)

LG AI Research

Free

EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)

LG AI Research

Free

Falcon-H1R-7B

TII UAE

Free

G9v3-39A5B

AI9Stars

Free

G9v3-3B

AI9Stars

Free

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Google

Free

Gemini 1.0 Ultra

Google

Free

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May '24)

Google

Free

Gemini 1.5 Flash (Sep '24)

Google

Free

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B

Google

Free

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May '24)

Google

Free

Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep '24)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash (experimental)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Dec '24)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Jan '25)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Feb '25)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Preview)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental (Feb '25)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning)

Google

Free

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (Mar' 25)

Google

Free

Gemini 3 Deep Think

Google

Free

Gemma 3 12B

Google

Free

Gemma 3 1B Instruct

Google

Free

Gemma 3 270M

Google

Free

Gemma 3 27B

Google

Free

Gemma 3 4B

Google

Free

Gemma 3n E2B Instruct

Google

Free

Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)

Google

Free

Gemma 4 31B

Google

Free

Gemma 4 E2B (Non-reasoning)

Google

Free

Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)

Google

Free

GLM-4.5 (Reasoning)

Z.ai

Free

GLM-5-Turbo

Z.ai

Free

GPT-3.5 Turbo (0613)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-4.5 (Preview)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-4o (ChatGPT)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-4o (March 2025, chatgpt-4o-latest)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-4o mini Realtime (Dec '24)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-4o Realtime (Dec '24)

OpenAI

Free

GPT-5 (ChatGPT)

OpenAI

Free

Granite 4.0 1B

IBM

Free

Granite 4.0 350M

IBM

Free

Granite 4.0 H 1B

IBM

Free

Granite 4.0 H 350M

IBM

Free

Granite 4.0 Micro

IBM

Free

Granite 4.1 30B

IBM

Free

Granite 4.1 3B

IBM

Free

Grok 2 (Dec '24)

xAI

Free

Grok 4.1 Fast

xAI

Free

Grok Beta

xAI

Free

Grok Code Fast 1

xAI

Free

Grok-1

xAI

Free

HyperCLOVA X SEED Think (32B)

Naver

Free

INTELLECT-3

Prime Intellect

Free

Jamba 1.7 Mini

AI21 Labs

Free

Jamba Reasoning 3B

AI21 Labs

Free

JT-35B-Flash

China Mobile

Free

JT-4.1 Flash 236B A21B

China Mobile

Free

JT-MINI

China Mobile

Free

K2 Horizon 375B A23B

MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models

Free

K2 Think V2

MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models

Free

K2-V2 (medium)

MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models

Free

KAT-Coder-Pro V1

KwaiKAT

Free

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Kimi

Free

LFM 40B

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2 1.2B

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2 2.6B

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2 8B A1B

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2-24B-A2B

LiquidAI

Free

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2.5-2.6B

Free

LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Free

LFM2.5-VL-1.6B

Liquid AI

Free

Ling 3.0 Tiny

InclusionAI

Free

Ling-1T

InclusionAI

Free

Ling-mini-2.0

InclusionAI

Free

Llama 2 Chat 13B

Meta

Free

Llama 2 Chat 70B

Meta

Free

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)

Nvidia

Free

Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405B

Allen Institute for AI

Free

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Meta

Free

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta

Free

Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)

Meta

Free

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Non-reasoning)

Nvidia

Free

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)

Nvidia

Free

Llama 65B

Meta

Free

LongCat Flash Lite

LongCat

Free

Magistral Medium 1

Mistral

Free

Magistral Small 1

Mistral

Free

Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro

Korea Telecom

Free

Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro Preview

Korea Telecom

Free

MiMo-V2-Flash (Feb 2026)

Xiaomi

Free

MiMo-V2-Omni-0327

Xiaomi

Free

MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B

OpenBMB

Free

MiniCPM5-1B (Non-reasoning)

OpenBMB

Free

MiniMax M1 40k

MiniMax

Free

Mistral: Devstral Medium

Mistral AI

Free

Mistral: Pixtral Large 2411

Mistral AI

Free

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Mistral

Free

Molmo 7B-D

Allen Institute for AI

Free

Molmo2-8B

Allen Institute for AI

Free

Motif 3 (Beta)

Motif Technologies

Free

Motif-2-12.7B-Reasoning

Motif Technologies

Free

Muse Spark

Meta

Free

Nanbeige4.1-3B

Nanbeige

Free

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Nvidia

Free

North Mini Code

Cohere

Free

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

Nvidia

Free

o1-mini

OpenAI

Free

OLMo 2 32B

Allen Institute for AI

Free

OLMo 2 7B

Allen Institute for AI

Free

Olmo 3 32B Think

AllenAI

Free

Olmo 3 7B Think

Allen Institute for AI

Free

Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct

AllenAI

Free

Olmo 3.1 32B Think

Allen Institute for AI

Free

OpenChat 3.5 (1210)

OpenChat

Free

PALM-2

Google

Free

Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8B

Microsoft

Free

Qwen Chat 14B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen Chat 72B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen1.5 Chat 110B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen2 Instruct 72B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Alibaba

Free

Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 7B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen2.5 Instruct 32B

Alibaba

Free

Qwen2.5 Max

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 0.6B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 1.7B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 4B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 4B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 4B 2507 Instruct

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3.5 0.8B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

Qwen3.5 2B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

Free

QwQ 32B-Preview

Alibaba

Free

R1 1776

Perplexity

Free

Ring-1T

InclusionAI

Free

Sarvam M (Reasoning)

Sarvam

Free

Solar Open 100B (Reasoning)

Upstage

Free

Solar Pro 2 (Non-reasoning)

Upstage

Free

Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Non-reasoning)

Upstage

Free

Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)

Upstage

Free

Sonar

Perplexity

Free

Sonar Reasoning

Perplexity

Free

Sonar Reasoning Pro

Perplexity

Free

Step3 VL 10B

StepFun

Free

Tiny Aya Global

Cohere

Free

Tri-21B-Think

Trillion Labs

Free

Tri-21B-think Preview

Trillion Labs

Free

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Omni

Xiaomi

Free

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Pro

Xiaomi

Free

AI API Pricing Guide

How Token-Based Pricing Works

Most LLM APIs charge per token processed, split into two categories: input tokens (the text you send — your prompt, context, and history) and outputtokens (the model's generated response). Output pricing is typically 2–4× higher than input, as generation requires more compute.

In English, 1,000 tokens correspond to roughly 750 words. A full A4 page of text contains between 600 and 900 tokens.

Real-World Monthly Cost Example

Consider a company using a mid-tier OpenAI model via API to process 100 emails per day, with an average prompt of 800 tokens and a 300-token response. That's 110,000 tokens/day × 30 days = 3.3 million tokens/month. At $2.50/M input tokens and $10/M output:

  • Input: 2.4M tokens × $2.50/M = $6.00/mo
  • Output: 0.9M tokens × $10/M = $9.00/mo
  • Total: $15.00/mo

The same volume with a compact Anthropic model (~$0.25/M input) would cost only ~$1.73/mo — a significant saving when maximum quality isn't critical.

Strategies to Reduce API Costs

1. Pick the right model for each task: simple text classification can use Gemini Flash or a compact Anthropic model; reserve frontier OpenAI or Anthropic models for tasks that truly need advanced reasoning.

2. Compress your prompts: avoid repeating unnecessary context. Well-implemented RAG systems send only the relevant passages, not the entire document.

3. Cache responses: if the same prompt is sent repeatedly (e.g., product categorization), store results and reuse them. Providers like Anthropic offer prompt caching at a discount.

4. Use open-source models via third-party APIs: Groq, Together AI, and Fireworks serve models like Llama and Qwen at $0.01–$0.20/M tokens — 10–100× cheaper than proprietary frontier models.

Frequently Asked Questions about API Costs

How much does a frontier OpenAI model API cost per token?

As of 2026, OpenAI's cheapest paid model via API costs $0.024 per million input tokens and $0.112 per million output tokens. See the live pricing table above for the current lineup — prices change frequently as new models ship.

What is the cheapest AI API available?

Open source models like Qwen, Llama and Gemma can be accessed via third-party APIs (Groq, Together AI, Fireworks) for fractions of a cent per million tokens — as low as $0.01–$0.10/M tokens. Among proprietary APIs, Gemini Flash and compact Anthropic models are the most affordable at $0.08–$0.25/M input tokens.

What are tokens and how do I estimate my project cost?

Tokens are text units that LLMs process — in English, 1 token ≈ 4 characters. A standard A4 page has ~600–800 tokens. To estimate cost: (input tokens + output tokens) × price/1M tokens. Example: 500-token prompt + 300-token response = 800 tokens × model price.

Should I use the API or subscribe to ChatGPT Plus/Claude Pro?

For moderate personal use, a subscription ($20/month) is usually more economical. For heavy usage or product integration, the API is more flexible and scalable. The breakeven point typically occurs when your API token consumption exceeds the equivalent value of the monthly subscription.

How have AI API prices changed over time?

Prices have dropped dramatically: frontier models cost $30/M tokens in 2023; equivalent models now cost $2–5/M. The trend is continuous decline as competition increases. We update this table weekly — always verify official pricing before committing your budget.

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