LLM API pricing · updated twice daily

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TokensWatch tracks list prices across the major LLM APIs, diffs them against the community dataset every morning, and publishes the delta with a source attached. Right now the cheapest blended price is GPT-5 nano.

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Current API pricing

LLM API pricing per 1 million tokens, cheapest blended price first
Model Provider Input / MTok Output / MTok Blended* Context Class
GPT-5 nano OpenAI $0.05 $0.40 $0.14 400K fast
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google $0.10 $0.40 $0.18 1M fast
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek $0.28 $0.42 $0.32 128K workhorse
GPT-5 mini OpenAI $0.25 $2 $0.69 400K workhorse
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google $0.30 $2.50 $0.85 1M workhorse
Grok 4 xAI $1.25 $2.50 $1.56 256K frontier
Grok 4 Fast xAI $1.25 $2.50 $1.56 2M fast
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic $1 $5 $2 200K fast
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral $1.50 $7.50 $3 128K workhorse
GPT-5.1 OpenAI $1.25 $10 $3.44 400K frontier
Gemini 3 Pro Google $2 $12 $4.50 1M frontier
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic $3 $15 $6 200K workhorse
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic $5 $25 $10 200K frontier

*Blended assumes a 3:1 input-to-output token ratio, typical for chat and RAG workloads. USD per 1M tokens, first-party API, standard tier — no caching or batch discounts.

Every price is read back against the provider's own page, then diffed against the community pricing dataset twice daily (06:17 & 18:17 UTC).

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Latest price movements

  1. Grok 4 pricing changed: input $3 → $1.25, output $15 → $2.5 per MTok.

    xAI · Grok 4

  2. Grok 4 Fast pricing changed: input $0.2 → $1.25, output $0.5 → $2.5 per MTok.

    xAI · Grok 4 Fast

  3. Mistral replaced Medium 3 with Mistral Medium 3.5 at $1.50/$7.50 per MTok — a 3.75× price increase on the Medium line (Medium 3 was $0.40/$2.00). Verified against mistral.ai/pricing/api.

    Mistral · Mistral Medium 3.5

  4. Claude Opus 4.5 launched at $5/$25 per MTok — a 67% cut versus Opus 4.1's $15/$75.

    Anthropic · Claude Opus 4.5

  5. DeepSeek V3.2 cut API prices by 50%+ to $0.28/$0.42 per MTok (cache miss).

    DeepSeek · DeepSeek V3.2

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