State of AI Cost, June 2026
Published June 16, 2026. Covers Jun 1 to Jun 17, 2026.
The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct at $0.015 per million tokens. 2 models changed price. The community tracked $34.06 of AI spend across 3 contributors.
The AI Cost Index
Frontier
0%
$4.64
per 1M tokens
Budget
0%
$0.70
per 1M tokens
See the live AI Cost Index for the current value and full history.
Biggest price moves
| Model | Output before | Output after | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| claude-opus-4-6 | $75.00 | $25.00 | -66.7% |
| claude-haiku-4-5 | $4.00 | $5.00 | +25% |
Lowest cost per million tokens
nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
· $0.015/Mtok
nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct
· $0.015/Mtok
nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B
· $0.015/Mtok
lambda_ai/llama3.2-11b-vision-instruct
· $0.018/Mtok
lambda_ai/llama3.2-3b-instruct
· $0.018/Mtok
deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
· $0.020/Mtok
novita/paddlepaddle/paddleocr-vl
· $0.020/Mtok
deepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo
· $0.023/Mtok
What the community spent
Spend
$34.06
Tokens
3,269,309,286
Events
73
Contributors
3
Anonymized aggregate across opted-in contributors. See the live community dashboard.
Cite this report
Champlin Enterprises. (2026). State of AI Cost, June 2026. MyTokenTracker. https://mytokentracker.io/reports/state-of-ai-cost-2026-06
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