LLM API pricing, verified and turned into real numbers
Every model below is priced from the provider's own published rate card. The tables are useful; the calculators are the point — a $2 and a $10 model are not 5x apart once caching and your input:output ratio are accounted for.
Prices verified 2026-08-19 · 22 models · 3 providers
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Cheapest blended rate
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
$0.175 /1M at 3:1 in:out
Priciest blended rate
GPT-5.6 Cyber
$28.12 /1M at 3:1 in:out
Spread, top to bottom
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before caching
All models
Blended rate assumes 3 input tokens per 1 output token, the rough shape of most production traffic. Sorted cheapest first.
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached in /1M | Context | Blended /1M |
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| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.100 | $0.400 | — | 1M | $0.175 | |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | $0.100 | $0.600 | $0.010 | 400k | $0.225 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.250 | $1.500 | — | 1M | $0.562 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.300 | $2.500 | — | 1M | $0.850 | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.300 | $2.500 | — | 1M | $0.850 | |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.750 | $3.750 | — | 1M | $1.500 | |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.750 | $3.750 | — | 1M | $1.500 | |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $1.000 | $5.000 | $0.100 | 200k | $2.000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $1.000 | $6.000 | $0.100 | 400k | $2.250 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.500 | $9.000 | — | 1M | $3.375 | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.250 | $10.00 | — | 1M | $3.438 | |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $2.000 | $10.00 | $0.200 | 200k | $4.000 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $2.000 | $12.00 | — | 1M | $4.500 | |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | OpenAI | $1.750 | $14.00 | $0.175 | 400k | $4.812 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | $2.500 | $15.00 | $0.250 | 400k | $5.625 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $3.000 | $15.00 | $0.300 | 200k | $6.000 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $5.000 | $25.00 | $0.500 | 200k | $10.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | $5.000 | $25.00 | $0.500 | 200k | $10.00 |
| GPT chat-latest | OpenAI | $5.000 | $30.00 | $0.500 | 400k | $11.25 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $1.000 | 200k | $20.00 |
| Claude Mythos 5 | Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $1.000 | 200k | $20.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | OpenAI | $12.50 | $75.00 | $1.250 | 400k | $28.12 |
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Pre-built for the eight workloads that account for most production LLM spend. Each ranks every model on that workload's actual token shape.
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