AI Model API Pricing
List prices for all 17 major models from 3 providers, August 2026. The spread is wider than most people assume: on a real chatbot workload, Claude Fable 5 costs 105× what Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does — $1.52 a month against $160.
Every tracked model
| Model | Provider | Tier | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | budget | $0.10 | $0.40 | |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | budget | $0.20 | $1.20 |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | OpenAI | budget | $0.20 | $1.25 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | budget | $0.30 | $2.50 | |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | fast | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | fast | $1.50 | $7.50 | |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | fast | $1.50 | $7.50 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | fast | $1.50 | $9.00 | |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | flagship | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | flagship | $2.00 | $12.00 | |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | flagship | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | flagship | $2.50 | $15.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | frontier | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | frontier | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | frontier | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | frontier | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | frontier | $10.00 | $50.00 |
Ordered by output price, which is what dominates most production bills. Input and output rates do not move together — the ratio between them runs from 4.00× to 8.33× across this table — so a model that looks cheap on input can be the expensive choice for generation-heavy work.
Compare within a provider
Each provider page prices the same six real jobs across that provider's whole lineup, works out what each step up the ladder costs on a live workload, and shows where the provider stands against the other two at every tier it competes in.
Anthropic — Claude
5 models · $1.00–$10.00 in, $5.00–$50.00 out per 1M · 10.0× spread
OpenAI — GPT
6 models · $0.20–$5.00 in, $1.20–$30.00 out per 1M · 25.0× spread
Google — Gemini
6 models · $0.10–$2.00 in, $0.40–$12.00 out per 1M · 22.1× spread
Or go straight to the numbers
- AI price tracker — the full table including cached-input rates, plus a changelog of every price cut, rise and new release.
- Cost benchmarks — eight real workloads priced on all 17 models, with every token assumption published.
- Model cheat sheet — prices, context windows and best-for picks on one page.
- AI API cost calculator — your own token volumes, priced across every model.
Standard-tier, short-context list prices, last checked against each provider's own published pricing page on . Long-context requests, priority tiers, batch processing and fine-tuned variants are priced differently. Confirm against the provider's own pricing page before committing budget.
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