AI API Price Leaderboard

Compare official and relay input/output token prices across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and more — with source and update status.

662

models

65

providers

$0.00055

lowest input/M

-99%

max relay savings

3697 live-scraped (); 288 manually maintained

Find the cheapest LLM APIsGPT-4o vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

Compare API costs for the same workload

Example: 1,000 requests, each with 1,000 input and 200 output tokens. That is 1M input + 0.2M output tokens. These are uncached token subtotals, not final bills.

GPT-6 Sol

OpenAI · Official quote
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $2.0000 / $10.0000
Token subtotal: $4.0000
Cached input: Not recorded; no discount assumed
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SubRouter · Third-party example
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $0.0268 / $0.1338
Token subtotal: $0.0535
Cached input: Not recorded; no discount assumed
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Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic · Official quote
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $4.0000 / $20.0000
Token subtotal: $8.0000
Cached input: Not recorded; no discount assumed
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SubRouter · Third-party example
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $0.1032 / $0.5159
Token subtotal: $0.2063
Cached input: Not recorded; no discount assumed
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Gemini 4 Argon

Google AI · Official quote
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $2.0000 / $10.0000
Token subtotal: $4.0000
Cached input: $0.1/1M
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SubRouter · Third-party example
Input / output (USD per 1M tokens): $0.3140 / $0.8400
Token subtotal: $0.4820
Cached input: Not recorded; no discount assumed
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Best prices for popular models

GPT-5.6 Sol$0.01379/M
ShannonAPI-99%
28 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Opus 4.6$0.06897/M
Zhiyuan AI-98%
26 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Opus 4.7$0.06897/M
Zhiyuan AI-98%
26 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Opus 4.8$0.06897/M
Zhiyuan AI-98%
26 providersModel details & all providers →
GPT-5.6 Terra$0.00552/M
ShannonAPI-99%
26 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Haiku 4.5$0.01379/M
Zhiyuan AI-98%
25 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Fable 5$0.13793/M
Zhiyuan AI-98%
23 providersModel details & all providers →
Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.09517/M
dddAI-96%
23 providersModel details & all providers →

Same-tier model comparisons

Flagship
Claude Fable 5 vs Gpt 5 5Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 4 8Claude Fable 5 vs Grok 4 3Gpt 5 5 vs Claude Opus 4 8
Mid-tier
Claude Sonnet 4 6 vs Gpt 5 4Claude Sonnet 4 6 vs Gemini 2 5 ProClaude Sonnet 4 6 vs Deepseek V4 ProGpt 4o vs Claude Sonnet 4 6
Budget
Gpt 4o Mini vs Claude Haiku 4 5Gpt 4o Mini vs Gemini 2 5 FlashGpt 4o Mini vs Deepseek V4 FlashGpt 4o Mini vs Gpt 4 1 Mini
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ModelInput / 1M
OpenAI5 models
GPT-6 AstraFlagship21 providers
$0.0276
GPT-6.1 SolRecommended15 providers
$0.0634
$0.0138
$0.0055
$0.0006
Anthropic5 models
Claude Fable 5.1FlagshipAvailable19 providers
$0.2193
Claude Opus 5.5Recommended18 providers
$0.1032
Claude Opus 5Available9 providers
$0.0690
Claude Fable 5Available23 providers
$0.1379
$0.0690
Google5 models
Gemini 4 ArgonFlagship14 providers
$0.0828
Gemini 3.8 FlashRecommended15 providers
$0.0238
Gemini 3.1 ProPreview9 providers
$0.0634
Gemini 3.6 FlashAvailable13 providers
$0.0310
$0.0124
Moonshot AI3 models
Kimi K3.1 ProFlagship9 providers
$0.1311
Kimi K320 providers
$0.0488
Kimi K2.6Available17 providers
$0.1036
xAI3 models
Grok 4.6Flagship18 providers
$0.0552
Grok 4.5Available19 providers
$0.0331
$0.0375
DeepSeek3 models
DeepSeek V4 ProFlagshipPreview19 providers
$0.1428
$0.0094
$0.0029
Alibaba5 models
Qwen3.7 MaxFlagship17 providers
$0.1204
Qwen3.7 PlusRecommended16 providers
$0.0315
$0.0315
$0.0166
$0.0124
Zhipu AI3 models
GLM-5.2Flagship20 providers
$0.0341
GLM-5.320 providers
$0.0174
GLM-5.115 providers
$0.1182
MiniMax3 models
MiniMax M3Flagship13 providers
$0.0197
$0.0414
$0.0414
Meta3 models
Official flagship identified (Preview), but no pricing entry is currently available
$0.0993
$0.0690
$0.0041
Mistral3 models
$0.4000
$0.0500
$0.2000
Cohere3 models
Official flagship identified (Available), but no pricing entry is currently available
CommandRecommended2 providers
$0.1379
$0.0207
$0.3448

Video generation: 10 featured vendors

Ordered by the Artificial Analysis 2026-09-09 snapshot; 10 featured vendors appear first and the rest stay folded.

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fal / MiniMax

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #1
MiniMax H3 MaxModel details →
AA #1 · I2V with audioElo 12001 price sources
$0.050 / second
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Google

4 ranked modelsVendor best AA #1
Gemini Omni FlashModel details →
AA #1Elo 12391 price sources
$0.100 / per_second
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Veo 3.1Model details →
AA #11Elo 10893 price sources
$0.041 / per_call
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Veo 3.1 FastModel details →
AA #12Elo 10892 price sources
$0.011 / per_call
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MiniMax

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #2
MiniMax H3Model details →
AA #2Elo 12371 price sources
$0.130 / second
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ByteDance Seed

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #3
Seedance 2.0Model details →
AA #3Elo 12224 price sources
$0.017 / per_call
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Seedance 1.5 Pro
AA #21Elo 10000 price sources
No matched quote
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Alibaba

3 ranked modelsVendor best AA #4
Wan 2.7 260612
AA #4Elo 11580 price sources
No matched quote
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Wan 2.7Model details →
AA #7Elo 11093 price sources
$0.100 / second
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Wan 2.6
AA #20Elo 10250 price sources
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Alibaba-ATH

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #5
HappyHorse 1.1Model details →
AA #5Elo 11463 price sources
$0.062 / per_call
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HappyHorse 1.0Model details →
AA #6Elo 11204 price sources
$0.093 / per_call
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xAI

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #5
Grok Imagine Video 1.5Model details →
AA #5 · I2V with audioElo 11101 price sources
$0.140 / second
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Grok Imagine VideoModel details →
AA #18Elo 10622 price sources
$0.0069 / per_call
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KlingAI

5 ranked modelsVendor best AA #8
Kling 3.0Model details →
AA #8Elo 11072 price sources
$0.019 / per_call
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Kling 3.0 Standard
AA #10Elo 10990 price sources
No matched quote
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Kling 3.0 Omni Standard
AA #13Elo 10880 price sources
No matched quote
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Skywork AI

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #9
SkyReels V4
AA #9Elo 11030 price sources
No matched quote
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Vidu

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #16
Vidu Q3 Pro
AA #16Elo 10760 price sources
No matched quote
Leaderboard data only

External Elo is advisory; scores from different task leaderboards are not directly comparable. Each detail page identifies its board and date. Verify price source and update time there. View leaderboard source

Image generation: 10 featured vendors

Ordered by the Artificial Analysis 2026-08-17 snapshot; 10 featured vendors appear first and the rest stay folded.

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OpenAI

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #1
GPT Image 2Model details →
AA #1Elo 137213 price sources
$0.00081 / per_call
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GPT Image 1.5Model details →
AA #4Elo 13138 price sources
$0.0069 / per_call
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Reve

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #2
Reve 2.1Model details →
AA #2Elo 13251 price sources
$0.200 / per_image
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Microsoft AI

3 ranked modelsVendor best AA #3
MAI-Image-2.5
AA #3Elo 12680 price sources
No matched quote
Leaderboard data only
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash
AA #10Elo 12060 price sources
No matched quote
Leaderboard data only
MAI-Image-2
AA #18Elo 11870 price sources
No matched quote
Leaderboard data only

Google

3 ranked modelsVendor best AA #3
Nano Banana 2Model details →
AA #3Elo 132315 price sources
$0.0076 / per_call
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Nano Banana ProModel details →
AA #6Elo 129914 price sources
$0.012 / per_call
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Nano Banana 2 LiteModel details →
AA #7Elo 12939 price sources
$0.0034 / per_call
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HiDream

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #4
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5
AA #4Elo 12630 price sources
No matched quote
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HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604
AA #20Elo 11840 price sources
No matched quote
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NVIDIA

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #8
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image
AA #8Elo 12200 price sources
No matched quote
Leaderboard data only

ByteDance Seed

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #8
Seedream 5.0 ProModel details →
AA #8Elo 12832 price sources
$0.017 / per_call
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Seedream 4.0Model details →
AA #17Elo 11882 price sources
$0.0048 / per_call
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xAI

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #9
Grok Imagine Image QualityModel details →
AA #9Elo 12373 price sources
$0.0062 / per_call
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Recraft

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #11
Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro
AA #11Elo 12060 price sources
No matched quote
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Recraft V4.1 Utility
AA #14Elo 11950 price sources
No matched quote
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Krea

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #13
Krea 2 Medium
AA #13Elo 11960 price sources
No matched quote
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Krea 2 Large
AA #16Elo 11880 price sources
No matched quote
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External Elo is advisory; scores from different task leaderboards are not directly comparable. Each detail page identifies its board and date. Verify price source and update time there. View leaderboard source

Audio and speech: 5 featured vendors

Ordered by the Artificial Analysis 2026-08-17 snapshot; 5 featured vendors appear first and the rest stay folded.

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SpeechifyAI

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #1
Simba 3.2Model details →
AA #1Elo 12391 price sources
$10.000 / 1M characters
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Alibaba

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #2
Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS PlusModel details →
AA #2Elo 12371 price sources
$19.253 / per_1m_chars
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Google

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #4
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSModel details →
AA #4Elo 12124 price sources
$0.828 / per_token
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StepFun

2 ranked modelsVendor best AA #5
StepAudio 2.5 TTS
AA #5Elo 11990 price sources
No matched quote
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Step TTS 2
AA #15Elo 11420 price sources
No matched quote
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Cartesia

1 ranked modelsVendor best AA #6
Sonic 3.5Model details →
AA #6Elo 12021 price sources
$49.000 / 1M characters
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External Elo is advisory; scores from different task leaderboards are not directly comparable. Each detail page identifies its board and date. Verify price source and update time there. View leaderboard source

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FAQ

What AI API types does ComputeUnion cover?

Four categories: LLMs (language models), video generation, image generation, and audio & speech (TTS/ASR). Use the tabs above to browse each category, or visit the dedicated hub pages for per-model detail comparisons.

How often are prices updated?

For relay platforms with live API access (such as OpenRouter), LLM prices auto-scrape every ~6 hours. Official providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and the Video/Audio/Image categories are manually maintained from official pricing pages and updated when providers announce changes.

What is the difference between official and relay API providers?

Official providers are the model developers themselves (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.). Relay services resell API access — often at a discount, but with different latency, SLA, and support terms. ComputeUnion lists both so you can choose based on your priorities.

Which AI API provider is cheapest?

No provider is cheapest for every model. The lowest current input quote is $0.00055/1M tokens; compare output cost, latency, and SLA before buying.