November 2026

State of AI Cost, November 2026

Published November 1, 2026. Covers Nov 1 to Nov 1, 2026.

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 at $0.0075 per million tokens.

Key takeaways

Frontier AI held flat this period, at $4.64 per 1M tokens (blended).

$0.01

Cheapest credible model: perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 per 1M tokens (blended).

The AI Cost Index

Frontier 0%

$4.64 per 1M tokens

Budget 0%

$0.74 per 1M tokens

See the live AI Cost Index for the current value and full history.

Lowest cost per million tokens

perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 · $0.008/Mtok perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-latest · $0.008/Mtok baseten/decision-models/baseten-joey-2b-latest · $0.008/Mtok 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 perplexity/pplx-decider-v1-27b · $0.015/Mtok perplexity/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b · $0.015/Mtok

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Champlin Enterprises. (2026). State of AI Cost, November 2026 [Report]. MyTokenTracker. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://mytokentracker.io/reports/state-of-ai-cost-2026-11

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@misc{mtt-report-state-of-ai-cost-2026-11,
  title        = {State of AI Cost, November 2026},
  author       = {{Champlin Enterprises}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {MyTokenTracker, \url{https://mytokentracker.io/reports/state-of-ai-cost-2026-11}},
  note         = {Accessed November 1, 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.},
  url          = {https://mytokentracker.io/reports/state-of-ai-cost-2026-11}
}

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