November 2026
State of AI Cost, November 2026
Published November 1, 2026. Covers Nov 1 to Nov 13, 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. 10 models changed price.
Key takeaways
Frontier AI held flat this period, at $4.64 per 1M tokens (blended).
Biggest move: azure_ai/jais-30b-chat output price dropped 99.9%.
Cheapest credible model: perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 per 1M tokens (blended).
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Biggest price moves
| Model | Output before | Output after | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| azure_ai/jais-30b-chat | $9,710.00 | $9.71 | -99.9% |
| watsonx/core42/jais-13b-chat | $2,000.00 | $1.80 | -99.9% |
| wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | $0.65 | $1.20 | +84.6% |
| wandb/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B | $1.50 | $0.50 | -66.7% |
| wandb/reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B | $3.00 | $1.00 | -66.7% |
| together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3.7-Max | $4.50 | $7.50 | +66.7% |
| tencent/hy4 | $2.50 | $1.25 | -50% |
| tencent/hy4-preview | $2.50 | $1.25 | -50% |
| deepinfra/anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | $10.00 | $15.00 | +50% |
| mistral/mistral-large-4 | $4.18 | $2.10 | -49.8% |
Lowest cost per million tokens
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