price of compute

The price of a token

API list prices for frontier models, in USD per million tokens — standard tier, text, base context. Each number is verified against the lab’s official pricing page (date shown); the daily series is in the free API. More labs get added as they’re verified — never before.

All labsAnthropicDeepSeekGoogleMistralOpenAIxAI
Input vs output $/MTok · log-log · 5×/6× guides
$0.3$1$3$10$30$100$0.1$0.3$1$3$10$30input →output ↑5×6×

The dashed rays are constant output÷input ratios — nearly the whole market prices output at 5–6× input. Distance along a ray is price class; distance off it is pricing strategy.

The ladder · every model, one scale
$0.1$0.3$1$3$10$30$100deepseek-v4-flash: $0.14 in · $0.28 out per MTokdeepseek-v4-flashmistral-small-4: $0.15 in · $0.60 out per MTokmistral-small-4gpt-5.6-luna: $0.20 in · $1.20 out per MTokgpt-5.6-lunadeepseek-v4-pro: $0.43 in · $0.87 out per MTokdeepseek-v4-promistral-large-3: $0.50 in · $1.50 out per MTokmistral-large-3gemini-3.5-flash-lite: $0.30 in · $2.50 out per MTokgemini-3.5-flash-liteclaude-haiku-4-5: $1.00 in · $5.00 out per MTokclaude-haiku-4-5gemini-3.6-flash: $1.50 in · $7.50 out per MTokgemini-3.6-flashmistral-medium-3.5: $1.50 in · $7.50 out per MTokmistral-medium-3.5grok-4.5: $2.00 in · $6.00 out per MTokgrok-4.5gemini-3.5-flash: $1.50 in · $9.00 out per MTokgemini-3.5-flashclaude-sonnet-5: $2.00 in · $10.00 out per MTokclaude-sonnet-5gemini-3.1-pro-preview: $2.00 in · $12.00 out per MTokgemini-3.1-pro-previewgpt-5.6-terra: $2.00 in · $12.00 out per MTokgpt-5.6-terragpt-5.4: $2.50 in · $15.00 out per MTokgpt-5.4claude-opus-4-8: $5.00 in · $25.00 out per MTokclaude-opus-4-8claude-opus-5: $5.00 in · $25.00 out per MTokclaude-opus-5gpt-5.6-sol: $5.00 in · $30.00 out per MTokgpt-5.6-solclaude-fable-5: $10.00 in · $50.00 out per MTokclaude-fable-5gpt-5.5-pro: $30.00 in · $180.00 out per MTokgpt-5.5-proinputoutput · $/MTok, log scale

Anthropic

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
claude-fable-5$10.00$50.005.0×$20.002026-06-24
claude-opus-4-8$5.00$25.005.0×$10.002026-06-24
claude-opus-5$5.00$25.005.0×$10.002026-06-24
claude-sonnet-5$2.00$10.005.0×$4.002026-06-24
claude-haiku-4-5$1.00$5.005.0×$2.002026-06-24

DeepSeek

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
deepseek-v4-pro$0.43$0.872.0×$0.542026-08-11
deepseek-v4-flash$0.14$0.282.0×$0.182026-08-11

Google

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
gemini-3.1-pro-preview$2.00$12.006.0×$4.502026-08-10
gemini-3.5-flash$1.50$9.006.0×$3.382026-08-10
gemini-3.6-flash$1.50$7.505.0×$3.002026-08-10
gemini-3.5-flash-lite$0.30$2.508.3×$0.852026-08-10

Mistral

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
mistral-medium-3.5$1.50$7.505.0×$3.002026-08-11
mistral-large-3$0.50$1.503.0×$0.752026-08-11
mistral-small-4$0.15$0.604.0×$0.262026-08-11

OpenAI

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
gpt-5.5-pro$30.00$180.006.0×$67.502026-08-10
gpt-5.6-sol$5.00$30.006.0×$11.252026-08-10
gpt-5.4$2.50$15.006.0×$5.632026-08-10
gpt-5.6-terra$2.00$12.006.0×$4.502026-08-10
gpt-5.6-luna$0.20$1.206.0×$0.452026-08-10

xAI

ModelInput $/MTokOutput $/MTokOut÷InBlended 3:1Verified
grok-4.5$2.00$6.003.0×$3.002026-08-11

Last snapshot: 2026-08-11 03:30 UTC · List prices, not negotiated rates; cached-input, batch, and long-context tiers vary by lab and are noted where they differ. Same rule as the GPU side: a missing number beats a wrong one.