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Yi Lightning API Pricing

Yi Lightning is 01.AI's low-cost text model. The official 01.AI pricing row is a unified 0.99 CNY/M tokens, stored here as $0.139/M input and $0.139/M output at the project CNY/USD rate of 7.10. Pulled directly from platform.lingyiwanwu.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.14/M
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Output - per 1M tokens
$0.14/M
Source platform.lingyiwanwu.com verified
Cached input - not published
$0.00/M
Cache no public row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.14/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Yi Lightning rates. Tweak workload split, then share the URL to share the calculation.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

SUPPORT

Customer support turn

$0.001/turn
4k in / 1k out~142,857 units/$100
CLASSIFY

Bulk ticket classification

$0.003/batch
20k in / 1k out~34,482 units/$100
TRANSLATE

Short document translation

$0.002/doc
8k in / 8k out~45,454 units/$100
ROUTING

Intent router call

$0.000/call
2k in / 1k out~333,333 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 427
Words 64
Tokens (estimated) 84 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.000012 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.000012 USD
Cost as cached input $0.000000 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Yi Lightning Current $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 agentic 92/8 16K Low-cost Chinese text routing
Hunyuan TurboS $0.11 $0.28 $0.13 Tencent budget peer documented elsewhere Tencent Cloud budget chat
Baichuan4 Air $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 Baichuan budget peer 32K Low-cost Chinese text workloads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite $0.10 cache $0.01 $0.40 $0.06 Google budget peer 1M Global multimodal low-cost work
MiniMax-01 $0.20 $1.10 $0.27 long-context MiniMax peer 1M 1M-context archive workloads
MiniMax M2.5 $0.30 cache $0.03 $1.20 $0.17 newer MiniMax peer 205K MiniMax agent loops

Frequently asked.

Practical Yi Lightning pricing questions, with source prices separated from workload assumptions.

Q · 01 What is the Yi Lightning API price? +
01.AI's pricing row is a unified 0.99 CNY/M tokens. AI//COST converts that to $0.139/M input and $0.139/M output using the project rate of 7.10 CNY/USD.
Q · 02 Why are input and output the same? +
The official Yi Lightning row is presented as a unified token price rather than separate prompt and completion prices. The page therefore stores the same USD value for input and output.
Q · 03 Does Yi Lightning have prompt caching? +
No public cached-input price is listed for Yi Lightning. The effective blend uses the normal $0.139/M token price for all input tokens.
Q · 04 What context window does it support? +
The current snapshot and model directories track Yi Lightning at 16K context. That makes it a budget short-context model rather than a 1M-context archive option.
Q · 05 When was this checked? +
The 01.AI docs pricing section was opened on May 23, 2026. The source URL is stored exactly as the official docs route used for this page.
Q · 06 Are regional or enterprise discounts published? +
No public enterprise ladder is stored for this row. Standard users should plan around the published 0.99 CNY/M unified price unless they have a private 01.AI agreement.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder - AI//COST - Pricing pulled daily from platform.lingyiwanwu.com - Last verified July 11, 2026
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