BUDGET CHINESE MODEL16K CONTEXTUNIFIED PRICECNY SOURCE
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
Source platform.lingyiwanwu.com verified
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
CLASSIFY
Bulk ticket classification
$0.003/batch
TRANSLATE
Short document translation
$0.002/doc
ROUTING
Intent router call
$0.000/call
§ 03 / TAPE
Price history.
Input · $0.14/M
Output · $0.14/M
Cached · $0.00/M
OCT 16 Yi Lightning launch pricing announced at 0.99 CNY/M tokensMAY 23 Verified against the 01.AI docs pricing section and refreshed in snapshot
§ 04 / TOKENIZER
Paste text. See tokens. See cost.
Estimate · 01ai-tokenizer-estimate · ≈3.85 chars/token Auto-counts as you type
This is a chars-per-token approximation, not a real tokenizer. Actual tokens vary by language, code density, and tool-call overhead — counts are typically ±10–20% off for English prose, more for code or non-Latin scripts. For exact billing, use the vendor's official tokenizer.
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| 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.