LLM API prices

• As of November 10, 2026, output prices from the labs themselves run from $0.10 per million tokens (Ministral 3 3B) to $180 (gpt-5.5-pro and gpt-5.4-pro), a spread of 1,800 times.
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is listed by 38 sellers, the most of any model here. Its output price runs from $0.15 (Sail Research) to $1.20 (Together, Makora, Phala, Crusoe, CoreWeave, Near AI, Venice, Nebius, BaseTen, and Parasail).
• Output costs a median of 5 times as much as input across the 82 lab models compared.
• A cached input token costs from 2 percent of the full input price (deepseek-flash) to 50 percent (gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini).
• 132 of the 140 official batch rates are exactly half the standard input and output prices.
• Gemini 4 Argon rises to $4 input and $20 output on December 1, 2026.
• Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.6 Flash rise to $1.50 input and $7.50 output on January 1, 2027.

• Scope. Text models, priced in US dollars per million tokens. Image, audio, video, embedding, and OCR models bill in other units and are left out.
• Official sources. Rows for Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral AI, Z.ai, MiniMax, Inception Labs, and Together come from each company's own pricing page. Amazon Bedrock rows come from the AWS Price List API, for US East (N. Virginia).
• Other hosts. Every other seller's rate is the price listed on OpenRouter, which is the source for those rows and is marked on each one. A host's price on its own site can differ. When a host lists several deployments of a model, this keeps the cheapest.
• Generation. A script reads these sources, respects each site's robots.txt, and stops if a table changes shape. Each refresh is reviewed before it ships.
• Tiers. A model with more than one rate has one row per rate. The base tier is the rate for the shortest prompts, or DeepSeek's peak rate, the higher of its two. On Bedrock it is the global endpoint where one exists. The findings and the chart use the base tiers of models bought from the lab that made them.
• Service tiers. The downloads add flex and priority rates where a seller publishes them. Priority covers OpenAI's Fast tier, Anthropic's fast mode, and the Priority tiers from Google and AWS.
• Caching. Cached input is the price of a cache hit. The downloads list the shortest and longest cache write periods a seller publishes, and Google's storage price per million tokens per hour.
• Context limits. A seller's own figure is used where its price page gives one. Otherwise the value is OpenRouter's listing for that exact model name.
• Not included. Regional and data-residency premiums, Azure's own price list, free tiers, and tool fees. Azure rows here are OpenRouter's listings.
• Blank cells. n/a means the source publishes no such rate. Mistral AI's page has a batch view, but those rates are not in its static content.
• Availability. This column reports only what the seller's pricing page states. A listed model can still be scheduled for retirement. See the model retirement calendar.
• Token counts. Equal rates do not mean equal bills, because tokenizers differ. Anthropic says Claude 4.7 and later models produce about 30 percent more tokens for the same text.

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