Cheapest AI API in 2026
The cheapest AI model with strong Nordic-language quality right now is Google: Gemma 3 4B at $0.05/1M tokens. The signal is based on 30 days of daily evaluation across over 350 models.
| Model | Provider | Context | Price/1M tokens | Price/1000 tokens | 100 documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Router (Beta) | openrouter | 2M | $-1000000.00 | $-1000.0000 | <$0.01 |
| OpenRouter: Fusion | openrouter | 1M | $-1000000.00 | $-1000.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Pareto Code Router | openrouter | 2M | $-1000000.00 | $-1000.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Body Builder (beta) | openrouter | 128k | $-1000000.00 | $-1000.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Auto Router | openrouter | 2M | $-1000000.00 | $-1000.0000 | <$0.01 |
| inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | inclusionai | 262k | $0.01 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Ling-3.0-flash | inclusionai | 262k | $0.02 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | ibm-granite | 131k | $0.02 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Mistral: Mistral Nemo | mistralai | 131k | $0.02 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Upstage: Solar Pro 4 | upstage | 524k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | qwen | 1M | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Mini | nex-agi | 262k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | openai | 131k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | openai | 131k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | meta-llama | 60k | $0.03 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024) | cohere | 128k | $0.04 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 | amazon | 128k | $0.04 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris | sao10k | 8k | $0.04 | $0.0000 | <$0.01 |
| IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | ibm-granite | 131k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | nvidia | 262k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano | openai | 400k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | qwen | 262k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | 1M | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano (batch) | openai | 1M | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Google: Gemma 3 4B | 131k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 | |
| Google: Gemma 3 12B | 131k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 | |
| Mistral: Mistral Small 3 | mistralai | 33k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | meta-llama | 131k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | meta-llama | 131k | $0.05 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | poolside | 262k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Tencent: Hy3 preview | tencent | 262k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash | z-ai | 203k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Google: Gemma 3n 4B | 33k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 | |
| Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 | amazon | 300k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| MythoMax 13B | gryphe | 8k | $0.06 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash | qwen | 1M | $0.07 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | qwen | 262k | $0.07 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| Microsoft: Phi 4 | microsoft | 16k | $0.07 | $0.0001 | $0.01 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest | ~deepseek | 1M | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | deepseek | 1M | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | inclusionai | 262k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | inclusionai | 262k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | openai | 131k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 32B | qwen | 131k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Google: Gemma 3 27B | 262k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch) | openai | 128k | $0.08 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 | poolside | 1M | $0.09 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | nvidia | 1M | $0.09 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | qwen | 262k | $0.09 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | qwen | 262k | $0.09 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B | mistralai | 256k | $0.09 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | nvidia | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | openai | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) | openai | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | openai | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) | openai | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Google: Gemma 4 31B | 262k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 | |
| Reka Edge | rekaai | 16k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | qwen | 262k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | stepfun | 262k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 | mistralai | 131k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | mistralai | 32k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | qwen | 131k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B | bytedance | 128k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano | openai | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Meta: Llama 4 Scout | meta-llama | 1M | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Reka Flash 3 | rekaai | 66k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | meta-llama | 131k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | qwen | 33k | $0.10 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B | 262k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 | |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next | qwen | 262k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | qwen | 262k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B | qwen | 131k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 8B | qwen | 131k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 14B | qwen | 131k | $0.12 | $0.0001 | $0.02 |
| Tencent: Hy3 | tencent | 262k | $0.13 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | 1M | $0.13 | $0.0001 | $0.03 | |
| Nous: Hermes 4 70B | nousresearch | 131k | $0.13 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.13 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air | z-ai | 131k | $0.13 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | deepseek | 1M | $0.14 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 | xiaomi | 1M | $0.14 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Tencent: Hunyuan A13B Instruct | tencent | 131k | $0.14 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) | 1M | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 | |
| Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | kwaipilot | 256k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) | minimax | 524k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 | perceptron | 33k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | qwen | 262k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | mistralai | 262k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Upstage: Solar Pro 3 | upstage | 131k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 | mistralai | 262k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think | allenai | 66k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | qwen | 262k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | qwen | 262k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) | 1M | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 | |
| Cohere: Command R (08-2024) | cohere | 128k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini | openai | 128k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | openai | 128k | $0.15 | $0.0001 | $0.03 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | qwen | 131k | $0.18 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B | meta-llama | 1M | $0.18 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | qwen | 1M | $0.19 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | stepfun | 262k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano | openai | 400k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B | qwen | 262k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 | mistralai | 262k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | qwen | 262k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash | qwen | 1M | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | qwen | 82k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Venice: Uncensored | cognitivecomputations | 128k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini (batch) | openai | 1M | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Meta: Llama 4 Maverick | meta-llama | 1M | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Mistral: Saba | mistralai | 33k | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | minimax | 1M | $0.20 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | arcee-ai | 262k | $0.22 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | minimax | 205k | $0.22 | $0.0002 | $0.04 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | qwen | 262k | $0.23 | $0.0002 | $0.05 |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 66k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 | |
| Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Pro | nex-agi | 262k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 1M | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 | |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Inception: Mercury 2 | inception | 128k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | 1M | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 | |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | qwen | 262k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | 1M | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | openai | 400k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 | deepseek | 164k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | openai | 400k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | qwen | 128k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| TheDrummer: Rocinante 12B | thedrummer | 66k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | anthropic | 200k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) | openai | 16k | $0.25 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | qwen | 1M | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | minimax | 205k | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | qwen | 262k | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 | qwen | 1M | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen-Plus | qwen | 1M | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 | deepseek | 164k | $0.26 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 | deepseek | 164k | $0.27 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | deepseek | 164k | $0.27 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | deepseek | 164k | $0.27 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 | deepseek | 164k | $0.27 | $0.0003 | $0.05 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | qwen | 262k | $0.29 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 | |
| Meituan: LongCat 2.0 | meituan | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (batch) | nvidia | 512k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | minimax | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | qwen | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | kwaipilot | 262k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | minimax | 205k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | minimax | 66k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | minimax | 205k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.6V | z-ai | 131k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Amazon: Nova 2 Lite | amazon | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 33k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 | |
| TheDrummer: Cydonia 24B V4.1 | thedrummer | 131k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Mistral: Codestral 2508 | mistralai | 256k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | qwen | 262k | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash | 1M | $0.30 | $0.0003 | $0.06 | |
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | qwen | 1M | $0.32 | $0.0003 | $0.06 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | qwen | 1M | $0.33 | $0.0003 | $0.07 |
| Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | meta | 131k | $0.35 | $0.0003 | $0.07 |
| Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B | mistralai | 128k | $0.35 | $0.0003 | $0.07 |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | qwen | 33k | $0.36 | $0.0004 | $0.07 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.38 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.7 | z-ai | 205k | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | qwen | 131k | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) | qwen | 1M | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 | mistralai | 131k | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 | mistralai | 131k | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini | openai | 1M | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| TheDrummer: UnslopNemo 12B | thedrummer | 1M | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | meta-llama | 131k | $0.40 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | baidu | 123k | $0.42 | $0.0004 | $0.08 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | deepseek | 1M | $0.44 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro | xiaomi | 1M | $0.44 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | thinkingmachines | 524k | $0.45 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B | qwen | 262k | $0.45 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B | qwen | 131k | $0.45 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| ReMM SLERP 13B | undi95 | 6k | $0.45 | $0.0004 | $0.09 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code (batch) | moonshotai | 262k | $0.48 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | bytedance-seed | 262k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) | thinkingmachines | 524k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | 131k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 | |
| Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | z-ai | 1M | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) | 66k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 | |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview | 1M | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 | |
| Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 | mistralai | 262k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) | anthropic | 200k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.6 | z-ai | 205k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| DeepSeek: R1 0528 | deepseek | 164k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| Mancer: Weaver (alpha) | mancer | 8k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo | openai | 16k | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $0.10 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | minimax | 1M | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| OpenAI: o4 Mini High (batch) | openai | 200k | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| OpenAI: o4 Mini (batch) | openai | 200k | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| TheDrummer: Skyfall 36B V2 | thedrummer | 33k | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| OpenAI: o3 Mini High (batch) | openai | 200k | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| OpenAI: o3 Mini (batch) | openai | 200k | $0.55 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 | moonshotai | 262k | $0.57 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711 | moonshotai | 131k | $0.57 | $0.0006 | $0.11 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | nvidia | 512k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | qwen | 262k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| Writer: Palmyra X5 | writer | 1M | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| OpenAI: GPT Audio Mini | openai | 128k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking | moonshotai | 262k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 | moonshotai | 262k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.5V | z-ai | 66k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.5 | z-ai | 131k | $0.60 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| WizardLM-2 8x22B | microsoft | 66k | $0.62 | $0.0006 | $0.12 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.1 (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.63 | $0.0006 | $0.13 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.63 | $0.0006 | $0.13 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.63 | $0.0006 | $0.13 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) | 1M | $0.63 | $0.0006 | $0.13 | |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus | qwen | 1M | $0.65 | $0.0006 | $0.13 |
| Sao10K: Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B | sao10k | 131k | $0.65 | $0.0006 | $0.13 |
| Google: Gemma 2 27B | 8k | $0.65 | $0.0006 | $0.13 | |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | qwen | 33k | $0.66 | $0.0007 | $0.13 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code | moonshotai | 262k | $0.67 | $0.0007 | $0.13 |
| AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini | aion-labs | 131k | $0.70 | $0.0007 | $0.14 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch) | z-ai | 512k | $0.70 | $0.0007 | $0.14 |
| DeepSeek: R1 | deepseek | 164k | $0.70 | $0.0007 | $0.14 |
| Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct | nousresearch | 131k | $0.70 | $0.0007 | $0.14 |
| Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | kwaipilot | 256k | $0.74 | $0.0007 | $0.15 |
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) | 1M | $0.75 | $0.0008 | $0.15 | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch) | 1M | $0.75 | $0.0008 | $0.15 | |
| OpenAI GPT Mini Latest | ~openai | 400k | $0.75 | $0.0008 | $0.15 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini | openai | 400k | $0.75 | $0.0008 | $0.15 |
| Arcee AI: Virtuoso Large | arcee-ai | 131k | $0.75 | $0.0008 | $0.15 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking | qwen | 262k | $0.78 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Max | qwen | 262k | $0.78 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| AionLabs: Aion-2.0 | aion-labs | 131k | $0.80 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| Morph: Morph V3 Fast | morph | 82k | $0.80 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| AionLabs: Aion-RP 1.0 (8B) | aion-labs | 33k | $0.80 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B | deepseek | 8k | $0.80 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| Amazon: Nova Pro 1.0 | amazon | 300k | $0.80 | $0.0008 | $0.16 |
| Relace: Relace Apply 3 | relace | 256k | $0.85 | $0.0008 | $0.17 |
| Sao10K: Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2 | sao10k | 131k | $0.85 | $0.0008 | $0.17 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2 (batch) | openai | 400k | $0.88 | $0.0009 | $0.18 |
| Morph: Morph V3 Large | morph | 262k | $0.90 | $0.0009 | $0.18 |
| Sakana: Sakana Namazu | sakana | 262k | $0.95 | $0.0009 | $0.19 |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | thinkingmachines | 1M | $0.95 | $0.0009 | $0.19 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | moonshotai | 262k | $0.95 | $0.0009 | $0.19 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5 | z-ai | 205k | $0.95 | $0.0009 | $0.19 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | openai | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) | openai | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) | openai | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | x-ai | 256k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest | ~anthropic | 200k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 | |
| Relace: Relace Search | relace | 256k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | anthropic | 200k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Nous: Hermes 4 405B | nousresearch | 131k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: o3 (batch) | openai | 200k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 (batch) | openai | 1M | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Perplexity: Sonar | perplexity | 127k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct | nousresearch | 131k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) | openai | 4k | $1.00 | $0.0010 | $0.20 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | qwen | 262k | $1.03 | $0.0010 | $0.21 |
| OpenAI: o4 Mini High | openai | 200k | $1.10 | $0.0011 | $0.22 |
| OpenAI: o4 Mini | openai | 200k | $1.10 | $0.0011 | $0.22 |
| OpenAI: o3 Mini High | openai | 200k | $1.10 | $0.0011 | $0.22 |
| OpenAI: o3 Mini | openai | 200k | $1.10 | $0.0011 | $0.22 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro | deepseek | 1M | $1.17 | $0.0012 | $0.23 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | z-ai | 203k | $1.20 | $0.0012 | $0.24 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo | z-ai | 203k | $1.20 | $0.0012 | $0.24 |
| Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | meta | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | meta | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3 | x-ai | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | x-ai | 2M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 | x-ai | 2M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 (batch) | openai | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max | openai | 400k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| Deep Cogito: Cogito v2.1 671B | deepcogito | 128k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.1 | openai | 400k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex | openai | 400k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 | openai | 400k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | 1M | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o (batch) | openai | 128k | $1.25 | $0.0013 | $0.25 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5.1 | z-ai | 205k | $1.40 | $0.0014 | $0.28 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max | qwen | 1M | $1.48 | $0.0015 | $0.30 |
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash | 1M | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1M | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 | |
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | mistralai | 262k | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 |
| Google Gemini Flash Latest | 1M | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 | |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 |
| OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct | openai | 4k | $1.50 | $0.0015 | $0.30 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex | openai | 400k | $1.75 | $0.0018 | $0.35 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex | openai | 400k | $1.75 | $0.0018 | $0.35 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat | openai | 128k | $1.75 | $0.0018 | $0.35 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2 | openai | 400k | $1.75 | $0.0018 | $0.35 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | qwen | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 | x-ai | 500k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max | qwen | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 | x-ai | 500k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| xAI: Grok Latest | ~x-ai | 500k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | anthropic | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 131k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 | |
| Google Gemini Pro Latest | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 | |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest | ~anthropic | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 | |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) | 66k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 | |
| AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | ai21 | 256k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| OpenAI: o3 | openai | 200k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 | openai | 1M | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro | perplexity | 128k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research | perplexity | 128k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Mistral Large 2407 | mistralai | 131k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct | mistralai | 66k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Mistral Large | mistralai | 128k | $2.00 | $0.0020 | $0.40 |
| Claude Opus 5 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) | openai | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) | openai | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (batch) | openai | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 | openai | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT Audio | openai | 128k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 (batch) | anthropic | 200k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 | amazon | 1M | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini | openai | 400k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Cohere: Command A | cohere | 256k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-11-20) | openai | 128k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| Cohere: Command R+ (08-2024) | cohere | 128k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06) | openai | 128k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o | openai | 128k | $2.50 | $0.0025 | $0.50 |
| MoonshotAI Kimi Latest | ~moonshotai | 1M | $2.80 | $0.0028 | $0.56 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | moonshotai | 1M | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| AionLabs: Aion-3.0 | aion-labs | 131k | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | anthropic | 1M | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search | perplexity | 200k | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 | anthropic | 1M | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 | anthropic | 1M | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro | perplexity | 200k | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Magnum v4 72B | anthracite-org | 16k | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k | openai | 16k | $3.00 | $0.0030 | $0.60 |
| Claude Opus 5 | anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | openai | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | openai | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Sakana: Fugu Ultra | sakana | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch) | anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT Chat Latest | openai | 400k | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI GPT Latest | ~openai | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.5 | openai | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus Latest | ~anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 | anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 | anthropic | 1M | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 | anthropic | 200k | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-05-13) | openai | 128k | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo (batch) | openai | 128k | $5.00 | $0.0050 | $1.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro (batch) | openai | 400k | $7.50 | $0.0075 | $1.50 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 (batch) | anthropic | 200k | $7.50 | $0.0075 | $1.50 |
| OpenAI: o1 (batch) | openai | 200k | $7.50 | $0.0075 | $1.50 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2 | openai | 272k | $8.00 | $0.0080 | $1.60 |
| Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | anthropic | 1M | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Fable Latest | ~anthropic | 1M | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | anthropic | 1M | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | anthropic | 1M | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Image | openai | 400k | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| OpenAI: o3 Pro (batch) | openai | 200k | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo | openai | 128k | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo Preview | openai | 128k | $10.00 | $0.0100 | $2.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) | openai | 400k | $10.50 | $0.0105 | $2.10 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) | openai | 1M | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Pro (batch) | openai | 1M | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro | openai | 400k | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 | anthropic | 200k | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 | anthropic | 200k | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| OpenAI: o1 | openai | 200k | $15.00 | $0.0150 | $3.00 |
| OpenAI: o3 Pro | openai | 200k | $20.00 | $0.0200 | $4.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro | openai | 400k | $21.00 | $0.0210 | $4.20 |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) | anthropic | 1M | $30.00 | $0.0300 | $6.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro | openai | 1M | $30.00 | $0.0300 | $6.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Pro | openai | 1M | $30.00 | $0.0300 | $6.00 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4 | openai | 8k | $30.00 | $0.0300 | $6.00 |
| OpenAI: o1-pro (batch) | openai | 200k | $75.00 | $0.0750 | $15.00 |
| OpenAI: o1-pro | openai | 200k | $150.00 | $0.1500 | $30.00 |
All prices refer to input tokens via API. Output tokens typically cost 3–5× more. Prices change frequently — always verify directly with the provider.
Frequently asked questions about AI API costs
What is an API and who needs it?
An API lets you use AI models directly in your own software, automated workflows and apps. You pay per token instead of a fixed subscription.
Is cheap API quality as good as expensive API?
Often, yes. For many language and everyday tasks, low-cost models can deliver very strong value. Choose based on real results, not price alone.
Which model gives the best value for money?
It depends on the task. Compare quality, price, response time, stability and data requirements together. Test on your own content before standardising.
What are tokens?
Tokens are pieces of text that the model reads and writes. Prices are often stated per 1 million tokens. At high volume and with long documents, price differences matter.
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