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fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/flux-1-dev-controlnet-union $0 /Mtok qwencloud/qwen-turbo $0.09 /Mtok ovhcloud/Qwen3-32B $0.12 /Mtok mistral/devstral-small-latest $0.15 /Mtok watsonx/ibm/granite-guardian-3-3-8b $0.2 /Mtok dashscope/qwen3.8-omni-flash $0.23 /Mtok azure_ai/Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct $0.3 /Mtok babbage-002 $0.4 /Mtok vertex_ai/claude-3-haiku $0.5 /Mtok novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct $0.6 /Mtok openrouter/qwen/qwen3.6-27b $0.73 /Mtok databricks/databricks-gemini-2-5-flash $0.85 /Mtok bedrock/us-west-2/deepseek.v3.2 $0.93 /Mtok gemini-3-flash-preview $1.13 /Mtok apac.amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 $1.47 /Mtok bedrock/us-gov-east-1/amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 $1.68 /Mtok meta/muse-spark-1.2 $2 /Mtok azure_ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct $2.9 /Mtok oci/google.gemini-2.5-pro $3.44 /Mtok azure/gpt-audio-2025-08-28 $4.38 /Mtok databricks/databricks-gemini-3-pro $5.63 /Mtok ft:gpt-4o-2024-11-20 $6.56 /Mtok aihubmix/claude-opus-4-8-think $10 /Mtok us.anthropic.claude-fable-5-1 $22 /Mtok fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/flux-1-dev-controlnet-union $0 /Mtok qwencloud/qwen-turbo $0.09 /Mtok ovhcloud/Qwen3-32B $0.12 /Mtok mistral/devstral-small-latest $0.15 /Mtok watsonx/ibm/granite-guardian-3-3-8b $0.2 /Mtok dashscope/qwen3.8-omni-flash $0.23 /Mtok azure_ai/Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct $0.3 /Mtok babbage-002 $0.4 /Mtok vertex_ai/claude-3-haiku $0.5 /Mtok novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct $0.6 /Mtok openrouter/qwen/qwen3.6-27b $0.73 /Mtok databricks/databricks-gemini-2-5-flash $0.85 /Mtok bedrock/us-west-2/deepseek.v3.2 $0.93 /Mtok gemini-3-flash-preview $1.13 /Mtok apac.amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 $1.47 /Mtok bedrock/us-gov-east-1/amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 $1.68 /Mtok meta/muse-spark-1.2 $2 /Mtok azure_ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct $2.9 /Mtok oci/google.gemini-2.5-pro $3.44 /Mtok azure/gpt-audio-2025-08-28 $4.38 /Mtok databricks/databricks-gemini-3-pro $5.63 /Mtok ft:gpt-4o-2024-11-20 $6.56 /Mtok aihubmix/claude-opus-4-8-think $10 /Mtok us.anthropic.claude-fable-5-1 $22 /Mtok

Key findings

What the numbers say right now

87% quality, 17% price

Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) reaches 87% of the top intelligence score at 17% of the price

Versus Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback), the current intelligence leader. Quality from Artificial Analysis; price blended 3:1.

61,538 pages for $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).

$6.50

A 100,000-word novel costs about $6.50 to generate on Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)

Roughly 130,000 output tokens on today's top-rated model.

10,500x spread

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.

$0.06 / 1M

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

$3.40 $4.23 $5.05 $5.88 Jun 15: $4.64 Jun 16: $4.64 Jun 17: $4.64 Jun 19: $4.64 Jun 20: $4.64 Jun 21: $4.64 Jun 22: $4.64 Jun 23: $4.64 Jun 24: $4.64 Jun 25: $4.64 Jun 26: $4.64 Jun 27: $4.64 Jun 28: $4.64 Jun 29: $4.64 Jun 30: $4.64 Jul 1: $4.64 Jul 2: $4.64 Jul 3: $4.64 Jul 4: $4.64 Jul 5: $4.64 Jul 6: $4.64 Jul 7: $4.64 Jul 8: $4.64 Jul 9: $4.64 Jul 10: $4.64 Jul 11: $4.64 Jul 12: $4.64 Jul 13: $4.64 Jul 14: $4.64 Jul 15: $4.64 Jul 16: $4.64 Jul 17: $4.64 Jul 18: $4.64 Jul 19: $4.64 Jul 20: $4.64 Jul 21: $4.64 Jul 22: $4.64 Jul 23: $4.64 Jul 24: $4.64 Jul 25: $4.64 Jul 26: $4.64 Jul 27: $4.64 Jul 28: $4.64 Jul 29: $4.64 Jul 30: $4.64 Jul 31: $4.64 Aug 1: $4.64 Aug 2: $4.64 Aug 3: $4.64 Aug 4: $4.64 Aug 6: $4.64 Aug 8: $4.64 Aug 9: $4.64 Aug 10: $4.64 Aug 11: $4.64 Aug 12: $4.64 Aug 13: $4.64 Aug 14: $4.64 Aug 15: $4.64 Aug 16: $4.64 Aug 17: $4.64 Aug 18: $4.64 Aug 19: $4.64 Aug 21: $4.64 Aug 22: $4.64 Aug 23: $4.64 Aug 24: $4.64 Aug 25: $4.64 Aug 26: $4.64 Aug 27: $4.64 Aug 28: $4.64 Aug 29: $4.64 Aug 30: $4.64 Aug 31: $4.64 Sep 1: $4.64 Sep 2: $4.64 Sep 4: $4.64 Sep 5: $4.64 Sep 6: $4.64 Sep 7: $4.64 Sep 8: $4.64 Sep 10: $4.64 Sep 11: $4.64 Sep 12: $4.64 Sep 13: $4.64 Sep 14: $4.64 Sep 15: $4.64 Sep 16: $4.64 Sep 17: $4.64 Sep 18: $4.64 Sep 19: $4.64 Sep 20: $4.64 Jun 15 Sep 20

Budget

One cost-efficient workhorse per major provider

$0.74/Mtok

+4.9% since start

$0.70 $0.71 $0.73 $0.74 Jun 15: $0.70 Jun 16: $0.70 Jun 17: $0.70 Jun 19: $0.70 Jun 20: $0.70 Jun 21: $0.70 Jun 22: $0.70 Jun 23: $0.70 Jun 24: $0.70 Jun 25: $0.70 Jun 26: $0.70 Jun 27: $0.70 Jun 28: $0.70 Jun 29: $0.70 Jun 30: $0.70 Jul 1: $0.70 Jul 2: $0.70 Jul 3: $0.70 Jul 4: $0.70 Jul 5: $0.70 Jul 6: $0.70 Jul 7: $0.70 Jul 8: $0.70 Jul 9: $0.70 Jul 10: $0.70 Jul 11: $0.70 Jul 12: $0.70 Jul 13: $0.70 Jul 14: $0.70 Jul 15: $0.70 Jul 16: $0.70 Jul 17: $0.70 Jul 18: $0.70 Jul 19: $0.70 Jul 20: $0.70 Jul 21: $0.70 Jul 22: $0.70 Jul 23: $0.70 Jul 24: $0.70 Jul 25: $0.70 Jul 26: $0.70 Jul 27: $0.70 Jul 28: $0.70 Jul 29: $0.70 Jul 30: $0.70 Jul 31: $0.70 Aug 1: $0.70 Aug 2: $0.70 Aug 3: $0.70 Aug 4: $0.70 Aug 6: $0.70 Aug 8: $0.70 Aug 9: $0.70 Aug 10: $0.70 Aug 11: $0.70 Aug 12: $0.70 Aug 13: $0.70 Aug 14: $0.70 Aug 15: $0.70 Aug 16: $0.70 Aug 17: $0.70 Aug 18: $0.70 Aug 19: $0.70 Aug 21: $0.74 Aug 22: $0.74 Aug 23: $0.74 Aug 24: $0.74 Aug 25: $0.74 Aug 26: $0.74 Aug 27: $0.74 Aug 28: $0.74 Aug 29: $0.74 Aug 30: $0.74 Aug 31: $0.74 Sep 1: $0.74 Sep 2: $0.74 Sep 4: $0.74 Sep 5: $0.74 Sep 6: $0.74 Sep 7: $0.74 Sep 8: $0.74 Sep 10: $0.74 Sep 11: $0.74 Sep 12: $0.74 Sep 13: $0.74 Sep 14: $0.74 Sep 15: $0.74 Sep 16: $0.74 Sep 17: $0.74 Sep 18: $0.74 Sep 19: $0.74 Sep 20: $0.74 Jun 15 Sep 20

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).

gemini/gemini-flash-lite-latest

Google · $0.18 → $0.85

+385.7%

gemini-flash-lite-latest

Google · $0.18 → $0.85

+385.7%

deepseek-v4-pro

Deepseek · $0.54 → $1.98

+264.1%

deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro

Deepseek · $0.54 → $1.98

+264.1%

openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813

Openrouter · $0.87 → $1.98

+128.3%

openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash

Openrouter · $0.26 → $0.52

+100%

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. 1 Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) Anthropic 53.4
  2. 2 GPT-6 Astra (max) OpenAI 52.7
  3. 3 GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) OpenAI 52.4
  4. 4 GPT-5.5 (medium) OpenAI 50.4
  5. 5 Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) Anthropic 49.7
  6. 6 Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort, Default Fallback) Anthropic 48.9

⚡ Fastest

Output speed

  1. 1 Mercury 2 Inception 414 tok/s
  2. 2 Step 3.7 Flash StepFun 413 tok/s
  3. 3 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google 403 tok/s
  4. 4 gpt-oss-120b (low) OpenAI 346 tok/s
  5. 5 gpt-oss-120b (high) OpenAI 336 tok/s
  6. 6 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google 333 tok/s

💎 Best value

Intelligence per $/Mtok

  1. 1 Gemma 4 E4B (Non-reasoning) Google 217.5 pts/$
  2. 2 DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort) DeepSeek 213.7 pts/$
  3. 3 Qwen3.5 4B (Non-reasoning) Alibaba 180 pts/$
  4. 4 GLM 5.3 Flash Z AI 176 pts/$
  5. 5 Granite 4.2 3B IBM 173.3 pts/$
  6. 6 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-reasoning) Xiaomi 154 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 Sep 13, 2026.

  • 1 claude-fable-5.1-max Anthropic 1508 5.8K votes
  • 2 claude-opus-5-max Anthropic 1505 20.7K votes
  • 3 claude-opus-5-high Anthropic 1505 42.6K votes
  • 4 claude-opus-4-6-high Anthropic 1503 72K votes
  • 5 claude-opus-4-6 Anthropic 1498 75.9K votes
  • 6 gemini-3.8-flash-high Google 1495 5.1K votes
  • 7 claude-fable-5 Anthropic 1493 30.1K votes
  • 8 gemini-3.7-flash-high Google 1491 5.6K votes
  • 9 claude-opus-4-7-high Anthropic 1490 60K votes
  • 10 muse-spark-1.3-max Meta 1490 4.7K 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

$1,108.32

Tokens

127.3B

Tokens / $

114.9M

Contributors

6

Community dashboard →

Daily community spend

$0.00 $15.2 $30.5 $45.7 May 22: $6.98 May 23: $1.90 Jun 2: $12.9 Jun 3: $28.6 Jun 4: $11.5 Jun 10: $0.88 Jun 11: $5.14 Jun 12: $13.2 Jun 15: $18.1 Jun 16: $5.31 Jun 17: $0.74 Jun 18: $6.15 Jun 19: $28.9 Jun 20: $36.9 Jun 21: $0.15 Jun 22: $11.9 Jun 23: $7.57 Jun 25: $0.92 Jun 28: $0.43 Jun 30: $2.43 Jul 1: $1.35 Jul 2: $16.9 Jul 3: $18.2 Jul 5: $17.6 Jul 7: $20.9 Jul 8: $12.8 Jul 9: $4.87 Jul 11: $29.5 Jul 12: $20.3 Jul 13: $11.3 Jul 15: $8.49 Jul 16: $33.2 Jul 17: $40.8 Jul 18: $15.9 Jul 19: $24.3 Jul 21: $5.59 Jul 22: $17.8 Jul 23: $13.1 Jul 24: $21.6 Jul 26: $7.99 Jul 27: $11.1 Jul 28: $12.2 Jul 29: $9.60 Jul 30: $22.6 Jul 31: $36.3 Aug 1: $0.69 Aug 2: $27.6 Aug 3: $13.5 Aug 4: $33.3 Aug 5: $29.4 Aug 6: $26.3 Aug 7: $26.5 Aug 10: $19.4 Aug 11: $8.26 Aug 12: $13.8 Aug 13: $12.1 Aug 14: $14.4 Aug 15: $6.65 Aug 18: $13.1 Aug 19: $13.2 Aug 20: $13.8 Aug 21: $5.86 Aug 24: $6.87 Aug 25: $8.47 Aug 26: $4.03 Aug 27: $8.58 Aug 28: $6.30 Aug 29: $0.43 Aug 30: $15.5 Aug 31: $39.0 Sep 3: $9.39 Sep 4: $9.60 Sep 5: $3.96 Sep 7: $3.91 Sep 8: $11.9 Sep 9: $11.3 Sep 10: $8.26 Sep 11: $13.2 Sep 12: $2.79 Sep 13: $0.38 Sep 14: $4.13 Sep 15: $8.36 Sep 16: $5.07 Sep 18: $14.4 May 22 Sep 18

By provider

  • Anthropic 100%

By platform

  • Claude Code 100%

By use case

  • 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/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.

Model Provider Input Output Blended

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 Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)

💻

Coding

Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)

🤖

Agents

Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)

💬

Chat & writing

claude-fable-5.1-max

⚡

Speed

Step 3.7 Flash

📚

Long context

Llama 4 Scout 17b 128e Instruct Maas

💎

Best value

Gemma 4 E4B (Non-reasoning)

🪙

Budget

Llama 3.1 8b

Full cheatsheet →

The price sheet lies

List price isn't what you pay

Step 5 Preview is listed 76% cheaper than Kimi K3 (low) — yet costs 227% more to actually run. Each model by list price (left) vs the real bill to run the Intelligence Index (right).

LIST PRICE $ per million tokens ACTUAL COST $ to run the Intelligence Index Granite 4.2 3B$0.05 Granite 4.2 3B — list $0.05/Mtok GR Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reason…$0.20 Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning) — list $0.20/Mtok GE GPT-5.6 Luna (low)$0.45 GPT-5.6 Luna (low) — list $0.45/Mtok GP MiniMax-M2.7$0.53 MiniMax-M2.7 — list $0.53/Mtok MI Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite$0.56 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — list $0.56/Mtok GM Ring-2.6-1T$0.85 Ring-2.6-1T — list $0.85/Mtok RI Step 5 Preview$1.43 Step 5 Preview — list $1.43/Mtok ST Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reaso…$2.00 Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) — list $2.00/Mtok CL Mistral Medium 3.5$3.00 Mistral Medium 3.5 — list $3.00/Mtok MS Claude Sonnet 5 (Adapti…$4.00 Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) — list $4.00/Mtok CA Kimi K3 (low)$6.00 Kimi K3 (low) — list $6.00/Mtok KI Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive…$10.00 Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) — list $10.00/Mtok CU Claude Fable 5.1 (Adapt…$20.00 Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) — list $20.00/Mtok CD Claude Fable 5.1 (Adapt…$20.00 Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) — list $20.00/Mtok CE $15Granite 4.2 3B Granite 4.2 3B — actually $15 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.0060/task) GR $54Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reas… Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning) — actually $54 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.0319/task) GE $27GPT-5.6 Luna (low) GPT-5.6 Luna (low) — actually $27 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.0098/task) GP $143MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax-M2.7 — actually $143 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.0777/task) MI $94Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — actually $94 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.0416/task) GM $459Ring-2.6-1T Ring-2.6-1T — actually $459 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.3448/task) RI $923Step 5 Preview Step 5 Preview — actually $923 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.7147/task) ST $539Claude 4.5 Haiku (Rea… Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) — actually $539 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.2375/task) CL $1,014Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral Medium 3.5 — actually $1,014 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.5971/task) MS $653Claude Sonnet 5 (Adap… Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) — actually $653 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.5088/task) CA $283Kimi K3 (low) Kimi K3 (low) — actually $283 to run the Intelligence Index ($0.2419/task) KI $5,868Claude Opus 5 (Adapti… Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) — actually $5,868 to run the Intelligence Index ($4.8778/task) CU $3,158Claude Fable 5.1 (Ada… Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) — actually $3,158 to run the Intelligence Index ($2.3710/task) CD $13,129Claude Fable 5.1 (Ada… Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) — actually $13,129 to run the Intelligence Index ($7.6297/task) CE
Pricier than it looks Secret bargain
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Run cost = cost to run the full Intelligence Index, from Artificial Analysis.

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@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 September 20, 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.},
  url          = {https://mytokentracker.io/state-of-ai}
}

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