AI API pricing tracker
Current list prices for hosted AI model APIs in US dollars per million tokens, with the date each price took effect and the Tech AI Wire story that reported it.
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| Provider | Model | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Cache read $/M tokens | Effective | Reported in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Claude Fable 5.1 | 10.00 | 50.00 | 0.25 (was 1.00) | 2026-09-01 | Read the story |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 0.75 | 3.75 | not reported | 2026-09-02 (through end of 2026) | Read the story | |
| Meta | Muse Spark 1.3 | 1.25 | 4.25 | not reported | September 2026 | Read the story |
| DeepSeek | V4-Flash | 0.14 | 0.28 | not reported | 2026-08-21 (increase announced Aug 6, amount and date not stated) | Read the story |
| DeepSeek | V4-Pro | 0.55 | 1.10 | not reported | 2026-08-21 (increase announced Aug 6, amount and date not stated) | Read the story |
| OpenAI | GPT-6 Astra | 10.00 (Standard, short context) | 50.00 (Standard, short context) | 1.00 (Standard, short context) | GA 2026-09-04 (Copilot), 2026-09-08 (Bedrock); price date not stated | Read the story |
| TypeSafe AI | Jev | 0.042 | 0.00 (output free) | not reported | 2026-09-15 (announced; waitlist access) | Read the story |
| Alibaba | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | 0.15 (text) | 0.47 (text) | 0.016 (text) | 2026-09-18 | Read the story |
| Xiaomi | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 0.435 | 0.87 | not reported | September 2026 (release dated Sept 21 or 22) | Read the story |
| Xiaomi | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 0.14 | 0.28 | not reported | September 2026 (release dated Sept 21 or 22) | Read the story |
| Anthropic | Claude Opus 5.5 | 4.00 | 20.00 (was 25.00) | 0.20 | 2026-09-22 | Read the story |
| Anthropic | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 2.00 (unchanged from Sonnet 5) | 10.00 (unchanged from Sonnet 5) | 0.20 | 2026-09-28 | Read the story |
| OpenAI | GPT-6.1 Sol | 2.00 (up to 272K input tokens) | 10.00 (up to 272K input tokens) | 0.10 (up to 272K input tokens) | 2026-09-29 | Read the story |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 2.00 (until 2026-11-30; then 4.00) | 10.00 (until 2026-11-30; then 20.00) | 0.10 (until 2026-11-30; then 0.20) | 2026-10-13 (general availability) | Read the story | |
| OpenAI | GPT-6 Luna (Decisions API) | 0.10 | 0.00 (no output charge) | 0.00 (no charge) | 2026-10-06 (public beta; price may postdate launch) | Read the story |
| Mistral AI | Mistral Large 4 | 1.36 (API preview) | 4.18 (API preview) | not reported | 2026-10-06 (public preview) | Read the story |
| Anthropic | Claude Haiku 5.5 | 0.10 (up to 100K tokens; 0.50 over) | 0.50 (up to 100K tokens; 2.50 over) | 0.01 (up to 100K tokens; 0.05 over) | 2026-10-07 | Read the story |
| Meta | Muse Wonder | 4.00 | 20.00 | 0.20 | 2026-10-12 | Read the story |
| Microsoft | Microsoft-Decision-1 | 0.042 | Free | not reported | 2026-10-09 | Read the story |
| Perplexity | pplx-decider (Decisions API) | 0.02 | 0.00 (output free) | not reported | not reported (the October 1 launch report gave 0.04) | Read the story |
| Cloudflare | Clef | 0.24 | not reported | not reported | not reported | Read the story |
| Cloudflare | Clef-flash | 0.038 | not reported | not reported | 2026-10-09 (cut from 0.090) | Read the story |
| Cloudflare | Clef-omni | 0.15 | not reported | not reported | 2026-10-09 | Read the story |
| Meta | Muse Spark 1.2 | 1.25 | 4.25 | not reported | August 2026 (standard tier) | Read the story |
| Novita | Ling-3.1-flash | 0.30 | 0.90 | not reported | 2026-10-06 (as listed by AlphaSignal) | Read the story |
| Elorian | Glimpse | 0.60 | 3.00 | not reported | 2026-10-16 (research preview) | Read the story |
| OpenRouter | Step 5 Preview | 1.00 | 2.70 | 0.05 | 2026-10-09 (as listed by Developers Digest) | Read the story |
| Cloudflare | Clairic | 0.10 | no charge (no output tokens) | not reported | 2026-10-19 (preview) | Read the story |
| MiniMax | M3.1 Flash | 0.15 | 0.60 | 0.015 | 2026-10-19 | Read the story |
| Inception | Mercury 3 | 0.20 | 0.70 | 0.02 | 2026-10-19 (list price; half off at launch, no end date) | Read the story |
Changelog
- : Added Inception Mercury 3 at its list price: $0.20 input, $0.70 output and $0.02 cached input per million tokens. Its article reports a 50% launch discount ($0.10 and $0.35) with no end date.
- : Added Cloudflare Clairic: $0.10 per million input tokens on Workers AI, with no charge for output, as its linked article reports. Added MiniMax M3.1 Flash: $0.15 input, $0.60 output and $0.015 cached input per million tokens.
- : Added StepFun Step 5 Preview on OpenRouter: $1.00 input, $2.70 output and $0.05 cached input per million tokens.
- : Added Elorian Glimpse at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, its research-preview price from October 16, 2026. The competitor prices Elorian compared it with match the rows already in the table.
- : Added Ling-3.1-flash on Novita at $0.30 input and $0.90 output per million tokens, as AlphaSignal listed it on October 6, 2026. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 kept its predecessor's price and its story gives no figure, so no row was added.
- : Added Muse Spark 1.2 at $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens (its August 2026 standard tier), as reported in the Muse Spark Open story. Meta published no price for Muse Spark Open itself.
- : Added hosted decision-model prices from the AI decision models explainer: Perplexity pplx-decider at $0.02, and Cloudflare Clef at $0.24, Clef-flash at $0.038 (cut from $0.090 on October 9, 2026) and Clef-omni at $0.15 per million input tokens.
- : Added Microsoft-Decision-1 in Microsoft Foundry: $0.042 per million input tokens, with output tokens free, from its October 9, 2026 release.
- : Replaced the Gemini 4 Argon row with its general-availability pricing from October 13, 2026: $2/$10 per million tokens and $0.10 cached input until November 30, then $4/$20 and $0.20.
- : Added Meta Muse Wonder ($4 input, $20 output, $0.20 cached input per million tokens), released October 12, 2026. Muse Wonder Full has no API price. The TypeSafe AI funding story repeats Jev's existing price, so its row is unchanged.
- : Added 12 models from the pricing stories published September 4 to October 9, 2026, added DeepSeek V4-Pro, and filled in V4-Flash output ($0.28), which its linked article already reported. Prices whose input or output column the article did not name (Cloudflare Clef, Nano Banana 2.1) are left out rather than guessed.
- : Tracker created from the pricing stories published between August 21 and September 4, 2026. Every figure is the one the linked article reported; blank cells were never published.
Sources
- Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cache reads 75% and keeps token prices flat - Tech AI Wire
- Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 launch week - Tech AI Wire
- DeepSeek warns developers a significant API price rise is coming - Tech AI Wire
- GPT-6 Astra is generally available on Bedrock and Copilot - Tech AI Wire
- TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions, not text - Tech AI Wire
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cuts audio input costs by 98% - Tech AI Wire
- Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro ships 1T open weights under MIT - Tech AI Wire
- Claude Opus 5.5 cuts output price to $20 per million - Tech AI Wire
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 nears Opus 5.5 at half the price - Tech AI Wire
- GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches Astra at one-fifth the cost - Tech AI Wire
- Gemini 4 Argon opens to cyber defenders before developers - Tech AI Wire
- OpenAI Decisions API opens to all developers in beta - Tech AI Wire
- Mistral Large 4 launches with 1.05T parameters - Tech AI Wire
- Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts prices 90% below Haiku 4.5 - Tech AI Wire
- Meta Muse Wonder launches as its first frontier model - Tech AI Wire
- Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available at $2/$10 - Tech AI Wire
- Microsoft-Decision-1 model scores choices, not text - Tech AI Wire
- AI decision models, explained - Tech AI Wire
- Meta Muse Spark Open ships 816B open weights - Tech AI Wire
- Ling-3.1-flash: Ant Group opens 560B model under MIT - Tech AI Wire
- Elorian Glimpse model rechecks images while it reasons - Tech AI Wire
- StepFun Step 5 Preview: 600B open-weight agent model - Tech AI Wire
- Cloudflare Clairic model returns typed values, not text - Tech AI Wire
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash rolls out, claims 70% cheaper agents - Tech AI Wire
- Inception Mercury 3 diffusion LLM claims 1,068 tokens/sec - Tech AI Wire
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