What AI actually costs, right now.
One live, citable view of the whole picture: the AI Cost Index, what our community really spends, the biggest price moves, and every model price you can filter and sort yourself. Built from real usage. Free under CC BY 4.0.
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Key findings
What the numbers say right now
GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) reaches 90% of the top intelligence score at 50% of the price
Versus Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback), the current intelligence leader. Quality from Artificial Analysis; price blended 3:1.
One dollar now buys about 61,538 pages of AI-written text
At Gemma 3n E4B Instruct, one of the cheapest capable models, $0.03 per million tokens (blended).
A 100,000-word novel costs about $2.60 to generate on Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)
Roughly 130,000 output tokens on today's top-rated model.
The priciest model costs about 10,500x more than the cheapest for the same million tokens
o1-pro vs Gemma 3n E4B Instruct, blended price. Picking the right model is the biggest cost lever you have.
Open-weight models now run as low as $0.06 per million tokens
Qwen3.5 4B (Non-reasoning) is the cheapest open-weight model tracked, roughly 25,641 pages per dollar.
Computed live from our price, quality, and index data. Free to use and cite under CC BY 4.0.
Benchmark
The AI Cost Index
What a million tokens costs across a fixed basket of models, tracked over time. The S&P 500 of AI prices.
Frontier
One flagship model per major provider
$4.64/Mtok
0% since start
Budget
One cost-efficient workhorse per major provider
$0.74/Mtok
+4.9% since start
Price war
Biggest recent price moves
When a provider changes a price, it shows up here. Green is a cut, red is a hike (blended $/Mtok).
openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
Openrouter · $0.11 → $0.52
openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest
Openrouter · $0.6 → $1.98
openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest
Openrouter · $0.21 → $0.52
mistral/mistral-large-4
Mistral · $1.03 → $2.07
mistral/mistral-large-4-0
Mistral · $1.03 → $2.07
openrouter/~z-ai/glm-flash-latest
Openrouter · $0.12 → $0.24
Intelligence & speed
Not just cheap, capable
Independent quality and speed benchmarks, so cost reads next to capability. Smartest, fastest, and the best capability per dollar.
🧠 Smartest
Intelligence Index
- 1 Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) Anthropic 58.4
- 2 GPT-6 Astra (Max) OpenAI 56.9
- 3 GPT-6 Astra (Xhigh) OpenAI 55.3
- 4 GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) OpenAI 52.3
- 5 GPT-5.5 (medium) OpenAI 50.4
- 6 GPT-6.1 Sol (High) OpenAI 50.2
⚡ Fastest
Output speed
- 1 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google 424 tok/s
- 2 Step 3.7 Flash StepFun 413 tok/s
- 3 gpt-oss-120b (low) OpenAI 346 tok/s
- 4 gpt-oss-120b (high) OpenAI 336 tok/s
- 5 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google 333 tok/s
- 6 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) Google 294 tok/s
💎 Best value
Intelligence per $/Mtok
- 1 Gemma 4 E4B (Non-reasoning) Google 217.5 pts/$
- 2 DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort) DeepSeek 213.7 pts/$
- 3 Claude Haiku 5.5 (Xhigh) Anthropic 171.5 pts/$
- 4 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-reasoning) Xiaomi 154 pts/$
- 5 MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi 152.6 pts/$
- 6 Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) Anthropic 148 pts/$
Quality & speed data from Artificial Analysis.
Human preference
What people actually prefer
The LMArena (Chatbot Arena) overall leaderboard, decided by millions of blind head-to-head votes. Snapshot Oct 22, 2026.
- 1 Gemini 4 Argon (High) Google 1526 10.1K votes
- 2 Claude Opus 5.5 (High) Anthropic 1516 10.3K votes
- 3 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) Anthropic 1513 16.3K votes
- 4 Claude Opus 5 (Max) Anthropic 1508 34.5K votes
- 5 Claude Opus 5 (High) Anthropic 1503 71K votes
- 6 Claude Opus 4.6 (High) Anthropic 1502 83.5K votes
- 7 Muse Wonder (Max) Meta 1501 6K votes
- 8 Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) Google 1498 44K votes
- 9 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic 1497 88.2K votes
- 10 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) Meta 1491 20.5K votes
Data: LMArena leaderboard, CC BY 4.0.
Real usage
What the community really spends
Anonymized, aggregate, opt-in. Numbers from real engineers, not list prices.
Tracked spend
$9,844.03
Tokens
194.7B
Tokens / $
19.8M
Contributors
7
Daily community spend
By provider
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Anthropic 16%
By platform
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Claude Code 16%
By use case
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Coding 100%
Value
Cheapest & priciest right now
Blended $/Mtok (3:1 input:output) across text models with public prices.
Cheapest
- fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/flux-1-dev-controlnet-union Fireworks Ai $0/Mtok
- fireworks-ai-embedding-up-to-150m Fireworks Ai Embedding Models $0.01/Mtok
- perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 Perplexity $0.01/Mtok
- perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-latest Perplexity $0.01/Mtok
- baseten/decision-models/baseten-joey-2b-latest Baseten $0.01/Mtok
- fireworks-ai-embedding-150m-to-350m Fireworks Ai Embedding Models $0.01/Mtok
Priciest
- wandb/zai-org/GLM-4.5 Wandb $91,250/Mtok
- wandb/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct Wandb $14,750/Mtok
- azure_ai/jais-30b-chat Azure $4,827.5/Mtok
- watsonx/core42/jais-13b-chat Watsonx $875/Mtok
- openrouter/openai/o1-pro Openrouter $262.5/Mtok
- o1-pro-2025-03-19 Openai $262.5/Mtok
Explore
Every model, your way
Filter by provider, search, and sort the entire live price catalog. Pulled straight from the open Data API.
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Source: GET /api/v1/data/models · CC BY 4.0
The cheatsheet
Which AI for which job
No single model wins everything. The top pick for each job, ranked from real data.
Reasoning
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)
Coding
GPT-6 Astra (Non-reasoning)
Agents
GPT-6 Astra (Non-reasoning)
Chat & writing
Gemini 4 Argon (High)
Speed
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Long context
Llama 4 Scout 17b 128e Instruct Maas
Best value
Gemma 4 E4B (Non-reasoning)
Budget
Pplx Decider Flash V1.2
The price sheet lies
List price isn't what you pay
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is listed 78% cheaper than DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) — yet costs 795% more to actually run. Each model by list price (left) vs the real bill to run the Intelligence Index (right).
Run cost = cost to run the full Intelligence Index, from Artificial Analysis.
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Champlin Enterprises. (2026). The State of AI (MyTokenTracker) [Data set]. MyTokenTracker. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://mytokentracker.io/state-of-ai
@misc{mytokentracker-state-of-ai,
title = {The State of AI (MyTokenTracker)},
author = {{Champlin Enterprises}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {MyTokenTracker, \url{https://mytokentracker.io/state-of-ai}},
note = {Accessed November 2, 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.},
url = {https://mytokentracker.io/state-of-ai}
}
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