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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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
$0.7/Mtok
0% 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).
claude-opus-4-6
Anthropic · $30 → $10
claude-haiku-4-5
Anthropic · $1.6 → $2
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 GPT-5.5 (xhigh) OpenAI 54.8
- 2 Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) Google 50.2
- 3 Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) Google 45.4
- 4 MiniMax-M3 MiniMax 44.4
- 5 GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) OpenAI 44.3
- 6 Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) Anthropic 43.7
⚡ Fastest
Output speed
- 1 Mercury 2 Inception 839 tok/s
- 2 Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning) IBM 633 tok/s
- 3 LFM2 1.2B Liquid AI 522 tok/s
- 4 LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct Liquid AI 493 tok/s
- 5 LFM2.5-VL-1.6B Liquid AI 481 tok/s
- 6 HyperNova 60B 2605 Multiverse Computing 342 tok/s
💎 Best value
Intelligence per $/Mtok
- 1 HyperNova 60B 2605 Multiverse Computing 340 pts/$
- 2 Qwen3.5 4B (Non-reasoning) Alibaba 266.7 pts/$
- 3 MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi 229.1 pts/$
- 4 Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) Alibaba 222.2 pts/$
- 5 MiMo-V2-Flash (Feb 2026) Xiaomi 221.3 pts/$
- 6 Qwen3.5 2B (Non-reasoning) Alibaba 220 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 Jun 10, 2026.
- 1 claude-opus-4-6-thinking Anthropic 1501 42.8K votes
- 2 gpt-5.4-mini-high Openai 1499 35.2K votes
- 3 claude-opus-4-6 Anthropic 1497 45.8K votes
- 4 claude-fable-5 Anthropic 1497 2.9K votes
- 5 gpt-5.4 Openai 1495 38.9K votes
- 6 gpt-5.2-high Openai 1493 47.3K votes
- 7 claude-opus-4-7-thinking Anthropic 1489 28.9K votes
- 8 gpt-5.2 Openai 1487 54.9K votes
- 9 gpt-5.1 Openai 1485 42.6K votes
- 10 gpt-5.3-chat-latest Openai 1484 32.6K 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
$42.94
Tokens
4.3B
Tokens / $
101M
Contributors
3
Daily community spend
By provider
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Anthropic 100%
By platform
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Claude Code 100%
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
- fireworks-ai-embedding-150m-to-350m Fireworks Ai Embedding Models $0.01/Mtok
- nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct Nscale $0.02/Mtok
- nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Nscale $0.02/Mtok
- nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B Nebius $0.02/Mtok
Priciest
- wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Wandb $236,250/Mtok
- wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 Wandb $154,250/Mtok
- wandb/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Wandb $112,500/Mtok
- wandb/zai-org/GLM-4.5 Wandb $91,250/Mtok
- wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Wandb $82,500/Mtok
- wandb/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Wandb $71,000/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
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