The State of LLM Pricing
A live snapshot of large language model pricing across 18 providers and 219 models, rebuilt every day. Blended price weights input and output tokens 3:1 — a realistic mix for most applications. Free to cite and embed.
Updated 2 November 2026.
The headline
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive models is now roughly 5,000×. At the cheap end, GPT OSS 20B costs $0.00750 per million blended tokens; at the top, GPT-4 costs $37.50. For most production workloads the interesting question isn't “what's cheapest” but “what's the cheapest model that's smart enough” — which is exactly what our value leaderboard answers.
Price momentum
See every price change →Since we began tracking, we’ve recorded 436 price changes — 239 drops vs 197 increases across 13 providers, plus 422 new models. The single biggest drop: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input down 89% on 1 October 2026.
The 10 cheapest models
| GPT OSS 20B | OpenAI | $0.00750 | 1,287 |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Meta | $0.0100 | 1,055 |
| GPT OSS 120B | OpenAI | $0.0168 | 1,365 |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Meta | $0.0200 | 1,110 |
| Llama 3.1 8b Instruct | Meta | $0.0250 | 1,187 |
| gemma-3-4b-it | $0.0425 | 1,291 | |
| Gemma 3 4B IT (Bedrock) | AWS Bedrock | $0.0500 | 1,291 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.0525 | 1,465 |
| Gemma 3 12B IT | $0.0600 | 1,334 | |
| Amazon Nova Micro | AWS Bedrock | $0.0613 | 1,268 |
The 5 most expensive models
| GPT-4 | OpenAI | $37.50 | 1,186 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 (latest) | Anthropic | $30.00 | 1,419 |
| o1 | OpenAI | $26.25 | 1,353 |
| GPT-6 Astra (Bedrock) | AWS Bedrock | $22.00 | 1,441 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock) | AWS Bedrock | $22.00 | 1,514 |
Best value: intelligence per dollar
| GPT OSS 20B | OpenAI | $0.00750 | 1,287 | 171,600 |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Meta | $0.0100 | 1,055 | 105,500 |
| GPT OSS 120B | OpenAI | $0.0168 | 1,365 | 81,493 |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Meta | $0.0200 | 1,110 | 55,500 |
| Llama 3.1 8b Instruct | Meta | $0.0250 | 1,187 | 47,480 |
| gemma-3-4b-it | $0.0425 | 1,291 | 30,376 | |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.0525 | 1,465 | 27,905 |
| Gemma 3 4B IT (Bedrock) | AWS Bedrock | $0.0500 | 1,291 | 25,820 |
| Gemma 3 12B IT | $0.0600 | 1,334 | 22,233 | |
| Amazon Nova Micro | AWS Bedrock | $0.0613 | 1,268 | 20,702 |
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Prices from AI Calculator Pro, blended 3:1 input:output. Arena scores from LMArena / arena.ai. Rebuilt daily — last updated 2 November 2026.