LLM pricing

SAKANA AI · PERFORMANCE-MULTI-AGENT

Fugu Ultra by Sakana AI

$5 input / $30 output per million tokens. 272K context window. Full pricing hub live.

$5/M in$30/M out272K

OPENAI · FRONTIER

GPT-5.6 Sol by OpenAI

$4 input / $20 output per million tokens. 1.05M context window. Full pricing hub live.

$4/M in$20/M out1.05M

MOONSHOT (KIMI) · FRONTIER

Kimi K3 by Moonshot (Kimi)

$3 input / $15 output per million tokens. 1M context window. Full pricing hub live.

$3/M in$15/M out1M

AI21 LABS · FRONTIER

Jamba Large 1.7 by AI21 Labs

$2 input / $8 output per million tokens. 256K context window. Full pricing hub live.

$2/M in$8/M out256K

§ 02 / PROVIDERS

Browse by provider.

All models →

OPEN-WEIGHT GIANT

Alibaba (Qwen)

The Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model family from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab. First released in 2023, Qwen is the most-downloaded open-weight model family in the world — most tiers ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and ModelScope, while the proprietary Max tier is served through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio.

33 models · from $0.03/M →

GLM ARCHITECT

Zhipu (Z.ai / GLM)

The Beijing lab behind the GLM models, also operating internationally as Z.ai. Spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019, Zhipu ships strong coding/agentic models, multiple free tiers, and open weights — and was the first of China's "Six Tigers" to pursue an IPO. It also sits on the US Entity List.

16 models · from $0.07/M →

CHINA CONSUMER LEADER

ByteDance (Doubao)

The Doubao model family from ByteDance — parent of TikTok and Douyin. Served through the Volcano Ark (火山方舟) platform on ByteDance's Volcano Engine cloud, Doubao powers China's most-used consumer AI app and undercuts most frontier labs on price.

14 models · from $0.0223/M →

OpenAI

The lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT family. Founded as a nonprofit in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others; restructured into a capped-profit LLC in 2019 and finally into a public-benefit corporation on October 28, 2025. Ships the largest commercial model lineup, the largest consumer AI product, and — after the April 2026 funding round — the highest-valued private AI company in history at ~$852B.

13 models · from $0.02/M →

Anthropic

The AI safety-focused lab behind Claude. Founded by ex-OpenAI researchers in 2021, it ships frontier-grade reasoning models with zero-retention defaults and the most rigorous published RSP (Responsible Scaling Policy) in the field.

10 models · from $1/M →

MEDICAL-AI SPECIALIST

Baichuan

The Beijing lab behind the Baichuan general models and the medical M-series. Founded in 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan (former CEO of search engine Sogou), Baichuan has pivoted hard toward healthcare AI — its open-source Baichuan-M3 tops several medical benchmarks — while keeping a general-purpose 4-series lineup.

10 models · from $0.0744/M →

WECHAT-SCALE LAB

Tencent (Hunyuan)

The Hunyuan (混元) model family from Tencent — parent of WeChat, QQ, and the world's largest games business. Served through Tencent Cloud and the Yuanbao assistant inside WeChat, Hunyuan reaches over a billion users through China's dominant super-app.

9 models · from $0.0744/M →

Google

Google DeepMind is the AI division of Alphabet, formed in April 2023 by merging the original DeepMind (founded London, 2010, acquired by Google in 2014) with Google Brain. CEO Demis Hassabis. Ships the Gemini family — the most multimodal frontier lineup on the market (text + image + audio + video native) — through both the Gemini API and the cloud platform now rebranded as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI, renamed April 2026).

8 models · from $0.1/M →

AGENTIC + MEDIA LAB

MiniMax

The Shanghai lab behind the agentic MiniMax M2 models and the Hailuo video/audio generators. Founded in 2021 by Yan Junjie (a former SenseTime research lead), MiniMax pairs cheap long-context text models with consumer media apps — and listed in Hong Kong in January 2026.

8 models · from $0.3/M →

EU FRONTIER LAB

Mistral AI

The Paris lab behind Le Chat and the open-weight Mistral family. Founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch with ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers, it ships frontier-grade models with Apache-2.0 open weights for most tiers and EU-native data residency — the leading European alternative to US labs.

8 models · from $0.1/M →

SpaceXAI

Elon Musk's AI lab, founded March 2023 as X.AI Corp. Ships the Grok family — frontier reasoning and coding models trained on the Memphis Colossus supercluster (150 MW peak, plans for 1M+ GPUs). Acquired by SpaceX on Feb 2, 2026 at a $250B valuation ($1.25T combined entity). Renamed from xAI to SpaceXAI on Jul 6, 2026, when the lab folded fully into SpaceX. The Grok brand is unchanged, the API still lives at docs.x.ai, and Grok stays integrated natively into X (Twitter).

7 models · from $1/M →

ENTERPRISE LLM

Cohere

Cohere is an enterprise AI company behind Command, Aya, Embed, Rerank, and North. Public token pricing is currently explicit for Aya Expanse; newer Command models are listed as live but use custom or private-deployment pricing.

4 models · from $0.0375/M →

OPEN-WEIGHT FRONTIER

Moonshot (Kimi)

The lab behind Kimi — the long-context assistant — and the open-weight Kimi K2 models. Founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin with Tsinghua schoolmates, Moonshot ships a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight MoE that rivals frontier US labs while staying downloadable on Hugging Face.

4 models · from $0.6/M →

WEB-GROUNDED

Perplexity

Perplexity's API centers on web-grounded answers. Sonar models combine token billing with search-context request fees, so the full cost depends on both generated tokens and retrieval depth.

4 models · from $1/M →

NO PER-TOKEN RATE

NVIDIA

NVIDIA builds the Nemotron open model family and serves it through NIM inference microservices. It is the one major lab on this site that does not sell its models by the token — you evaluate free, self-host under a licence, or buy from a partner. That makes "the price of Nemotron" a different question from the one this site usually answers.

3 models →

MULTIMODAL CHAT

Reka

Reka is an AI lab offering Chat, Research, and Vision APIs. For AI//COST we track the public text-token rows for Reka Edge, Reka Flash, and Reka Core.

3 models · from $0.1/M →

EU / ISRAEL LAB

AI21 Labs

Jamba is the model family from AI21 Labs, an Israeli AI lab founded in 2017. Jamba pairs a Mamba state-space architecture with Transformer layers for a 256K-token context at a lower cost than comparable long-context models, and ships as Jamba Large and Jamba Mini.

2 models · from $0.2/M →

CHINA FRONTIER

Baidu

ERNIE (Wenxin) is the large-language-model family built by Baidu, China's largest search company, and served through its Qianfan MaaS platform. The lineup runs from the ERNIE 5.x frontier tier down to the cost-efficient ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, all priced per token in Chinese yuan.

2 models · from $0.119/M →

COST DISRUPTOR

DeepSeek

The Chinese lab behind the DeepSeek open-weight models. Spun out of quant hedge fund High-Flyer in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, it shocked the industry by matching frontier reasoning quality at a fraction of the cost — and shipping the weights under an MIT license.

2 models · from $0.44/M →

MULTI-AGENT MODEL

Sakana AI

Sakana AI describes Sakana Fugu as a multi-agent system delivered as one model API. Fugu dynamically orchestrates a pool of expert models for coding, reasoning, research, security analysis, and other complex multi-step work.

2 models · from $0.95/M →

KOREA'S FIRST AI UNICORN

Upstage

The South Korean lab behind the Solar models, founded in October 2020 by Sung Kim — a former HKUST professor who led Naver's Clova team. Upstage pairs a compact, cost-efficient LLM line with a strong document-AI business, and in 2026 became Korea's first generative-AI unicorn.

2 models · from $0.15/M →

CLOUD GIANT

Amazon

Amazon Nova is the family of first-party foundation models built by Amazon and served on Amazon Bedrock. The current Nova 2 generation replaced the original Nova Micro/Lite/Pro/Premier lineup, led by Nova 2 Lite at a 1M-token context window with on-demand per-token pricing.

1 model · from $0.3/M →

§ 02 / HEAD-TO-HEADS

Most-read comparisons.

All comparisons →

Antigravity vs Cursor

Antigravity is free and generally available; Cursor starts at $20. On Artificial Analysis's Coding Agent Index, Google's harness scores 56.6…

Google vs Anysphere↗

ChatGPT Free vs ChatGPT Paid

ChatGPT Free runs GPT-5.5 Instant with capped messages, may show ads in the US, and marks most features 'limited' — no GPT-5.6 reasoning mod…

ChatGPT Go vs ChatGPT Plus

ChatGPT Go ($8/mo) is Free with roughly 10× the headroom — more messages, uploads, and image generation — but it keeps GPT-5.5 Instant only,…

ChatGPT Plus vs ChatGPT Pro

ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) and Pro ($200/mo) run the same models, but Pro unlocks the deepest reasoning — GPT-5.6 Sol Pro plus Extra High — 20× t…

ChatGPT Plus vs ChatGPT Team

ChatGPT Plus is $20/mo for one person. ChatGPT Team — renamed ChatGPT Business — is $20/user/mo billed annually ($25 monthly, 2-seat minimum…

Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot

Claude Code is a terminal agent running Anthropic models, and it tops the neutral coding-agent leaderboards. GitHub Copilot is a layer acros…

Anthropic vs GitHub↗

§ 03 / SCOREBOARD

Live pricing leaders.

Methodology →

Metric	What it measures	Current leader	Top value	Models tracked	Last updated
Cheapest input	Lowest $/M input tokens — for high-volume RAG and bulk classification.	Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash	$0.0223/M	280	today
Cheapest output	Lowest $/M output tokens — matters most for long-form generation.	Ministral 3B	$0.04/M	279	today
Biggest cache discount	Largest gap between fresh-input and cached-input pricing — best for agentic workloads.	MiMo-V2.5-Pro	−99%	161	today
Longest context	Largest context window — best for big-document analysis at high input cost.	Gemini 2.5 Pro	2M	284	today
Most expensive output	Highest $/M output — usually the frontier tier, used selectively.	GPT-5.4 Pro	$180/M	284	today

The tape doesn't lie.

Every price change, cache rollout, and model release in the LLM cluster — logged within hours, not weeks.

SEP 09

GLM-5.3-Flash · Vendor-stated end of the 50% promotion, 24:00 UTC+8 - to be re-checked and recorded as fact on the day, not assumed

Hunyuan Hy3 · Correction on our side, not a repricing: rates now read from Tencent Cloud International's USD list ($0.132 / $0.528 / $0.033). We had been converting the CN-region CNY card at the Y7.10 rate the catalogue used at the time, which overstated all three by 6.8%. Tencent's CNY card is unchanged since launch.

AUG 31

RELEASE

AUG 31

Hunyuan Hy3 · Hy4 Preview listed above Hy3 at 6.3x the input rate. Hy3 stays on the price list as the generally available flagship.

Hunyuan Hy4 Preview · Verified on Tencent Cloud International's USD price list at $0.834 input, $2.501 output, $0.042 cache hit

AUG 31

Hunyuan Hy4 Preview · Hy4 Preview released and open-sourced - 770B total / 49B active MoE, 1M context - and listed on Tencent Cloud TokenHub

AUG 28

RELEASE

AUG 27

Qwen3.8-Flash · Verified on the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio English pricing page: $0.15/M input, $0.47/M output, International row, single band 0 PRICING

AUG 27

GLM-5.3-Flash · Verified on Z.ai's International rate card: list $0.15/M input, $0.03/M cached, $0.50/M output, with strikethrough promotional halves beside each

Qwen3.8-Flash · Surfaced by our model radar the day it appeared, with a 1M-token context window listed

AUG 26

§ 04 / BEST FOR

Pick by your workload.

If you need frontier reasoning + tool use with cache enabled…

Claude Fable 5

If you're optimising for cost per million tokens in bulk RAG…

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash

If long context matters more than price…

Gemini 2.5 Pro

If you want balance of cost and capability for a chatbot…

Claude Sonnet 4.6

If the workload is simple classification at scale…

Claude Haiku 4.5