Data

LLM API pricing, compared

Every row links back to the provider's own pricing page. No estimates, no numbers pulled from memory - if we couldn't verify it, it says so instead of guessing.

Long prompts cost more on some models: the cheapest APIs for a 300,000-token prompt, tiers applied. Every recorded change: price changes. By release date: new models.

Data verified between September 11 and October 1, 2026 against each provider's official pricing page; 4 of 72 models still carry the oldest date. Each row shows its own. "Verified" also covers rows where we confirmed the provider publishes no per-token price. Methodology

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Methodology

The table covers models charged per token with text output and a price published by the maker. Audio, image, video and embedding models, and anything priced per minute, are left out even when the same page prices them. For Alibaba, whose catalog keeps many older Qwen generations on sale, the table covers the current generations, Qwen3.7 and Qwen3.8. Every price above was read directly from the provider's own pricing documentation on the verification date shown - not estimated, not carried over from a previous check, not sourced from a third-party aggregator. "Verified" means one of two things, and the row says which: the price was read on the provider's official page, or we confirmed that the provider publishes no per-token price at all, in which case the row shows "no published price" with the date that absence was checked. A row we could not check either way says "no data". No row ever shows a guessed or third-party number. Where a provider prices by region, the row names the region it shows and the other level is published next to it. List prices are taken without promotions: Alibaba's pages, for example, state that "this page only shows the original pricing for model API calls, excluding any limited-time promotions", and that is the figure we record.

The current rows are also available as files, in JSON and CSV, together with the record of price changes, under a CC BY 4.0 licence: see the dataset page for the fields and how to cite them.