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61 reviewed offers · 11 providers · price review: Monday 19th October 2026
Model news
Recent stories about AI models, from public sources.
The Inference
2026-10-30
Mistral published the weights for Mistral Large 4 (nicknamed “Le Chonk”), a trillion‑parameter natively multimodal model, under its Ecosystem Open‑Weight License, making the model available for organizations to self‑host and customize.
Read the source ↗The Observability Layer
2026-10-30
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon as a frontier model aimed at cybersecurity and long‑horizon agentic workflows, and said it will use a phased rollout that grants early access to selected cyber defenders through its Fairwind program.
Read the source ↗AgentBreaking
2026-10-30
OpenAI reorganized its public Model Spec around five core values—faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care—and described new defaults for context and agency while noting production models are being refined toward those priorities.
Read the source ↗Find your starting point
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Highest general Intelligence Index scores among models with both chart measurements. This is not a task-specific ranking. 167 of 686 benchmark variants have both chart measurements. Scores are Intelligence Index v4.3, not percentages. Missing measurements are excluded; this is not the entire API market.
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Source: Artificial Analysis · snapshot 2026-09-30 · General scores do not guarantee results on your task. Explore the full benchmark dataset →
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Sources
Pricing uses dated provider snapshots and validation sources. Intelligence and performance use Artificial Analysis benchmarks. Missing evidence stays marked as unavailable; token estimates do not include every service fee.
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Compare reviewed API offers on the same workload. Coverage is incomplete; unreviewed legacy rows remain in the downloadable audit data. Primary-source review dated Monday 19th October 2026. Use the calculator above for monthly estimates; browse the reference rates below for details.
Structured dataset: ai-provider-pricing-validated.json · Methodology: AI API pricing validation pipeline · Long-form article
Reference rates
Official-style input, cached-input, and output rates used by the calculator. Monthly spend depends on your message volume, average tokens per message, and cache hit rate — not headline list prices alone.
| Model | Provider | Input / MTok | Cached / MTok | Output / MTok |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 (standard) | Anthropic | $10.00 | $1.00 | $50.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (standard) | Anthropic | $10.00 | $0.25 | $50.00 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 (standard) | Anthropic | $1.00 | $0.10 | $5.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 (standard) | Anthropic | $5.00 | $0.50 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 (standard) | Anthropic | $5.00 | $0.50 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 (standard) | Anthropic | $5.00 | $0.50 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 5 (standard) | Anthropic | $5.00 | $0.50 | $25.00 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 (standard) | Anthropic | $4.00 | $0.20 | $20.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 (standard) | Anthropic | $3.00 | $0.30 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (standard) | Anthropic | $3.00 | $0.30 | $15.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (standard) | Anthropic | $2.00 | $0.20 | $10.00 |
| Amazon Nova Lite (standard) | AWS Bedrock | $0.06 | $0.01 | $0.24 |
| Amazon Nova Micro (standard) | AWS Bedrock | $0.04 | $0.01 | $0.14 |
| Amazon Nova Pro (Latency Optimized) (latency optimized) | AWS Bedrock | $1.00 | — | $4.00 |
| Amazon Nova Pro (standard) | AWS Bedrock | $0.80 | $0.20 | $3.20 |
| Nova 2 Lite (standard) | AWS Bedrock | $0.33 | $0.08 | $2.75 |
| GPT-5 Codex Global (standard) | Azure OpenAI | $1.25 | $0.13 | $10.00 |
| GPT-5-mini Global (standard) | Azure OpenAI | $0.25 | $0.03 | $2.00 |
| Command R (standard) | Cohere | $0.15 | — | $0.60 |
| Command R+ (standard) | Cohere | $2.50 | — | $10.00 |
| DeepSeek V4-1-FLASH (off-peak) | DeepSeek | $0.15 | $0.00 | $0.60 |
| DeepSeek V4-1-FLASH (peak) | DeepSeek | $0.30 | $0.01 | $1.20 |
| DeepSeek V4-PRO-0813 (off-peak) | DeepSeek | $0.66 | $0.02 | $1.98 |
| DeepSeek V4-PRO-0813 (peak) | DeepSeek | $1.32 | $0.04 | $3.96 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (standard) | Google Gemini | $0.30 | $0.03 | $2.50 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (batch) | Google Gemini | $0.05 | $0.01 | $0.20 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (standard) | Google Gemini | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.40 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) | Google Gemini | $0.63 | $0.13 | $5.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (standard) | Google Gemini | $1.25 | $0.13 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash (standard) | Google Gemini | $0.75 | $0.07 | $3.75 |
| MiniMax M2.5 (standard) | MiniMax | $0.30 | $0.03 | $1.20 |
| MiniMax M3 (standard) | MiniMax | $0.30 | $0.06 | $1.20 |
| Ministral 3 14B (standard) | Mistral | $0.20 | $0.02 | $0.20 |
| Ministral 3 3B (standard) | Mistral | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.10 |
| Mistral Large 3 (standard) | Mistral | $0.50 | $0.05 | $1.50 |
| GPT-5.4 (standard) | OpenAI | $2.50 | $0.25 | $15.00 |
| GPT-5.4 mini (standard) | OpenAI | $0.75 | $0.07 | $4.50 |
| GPT-5.4 nano (standard) | OpenAI | $0.20 | $0.02 | $1.25 |
| GPT-5.5 (standard) | OpenAI | $5.00 | $0.50 | $30.00 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro (standard) | OpenAI | $30.00 | — | $180.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (standard) | OpenAI | $0.20 | $0.02 | $1.20 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol (standard) | OpenAI | $4.00 | $0.40 | $20.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (standard) | OpenAI | $2.00 | $0.20 | $12.00 |
| GPT-6 Astra (standard) | OpenAI | $10.00 | $1.00 | $50.00 |
| GPT-6 Luna (standard) | OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.50 |
| GPT-6 Sol (standard) | OpenAI | $2.00 | $0.20 | $10.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (flex batch) | Vertex AI | $0.15 | — | $1.25 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (priority) | Vertex AI | $0.54 | $0.05 | $4.50 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (standard) | Vertex AI | $0.30 | $0.03 | $2.50 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (priority) | Vertex AI | $0.18 | $0.02 | $0.72 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (standard) | Vertex AI | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.40 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (flex batch) | Vertex AI | $0.63 | — | $5.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (priority) | Vertex AI | $2.25 | $0.23 | $18.00 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (standard) | Vertex AI | $1.25 | $0.13 | $10.00 |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent (standard) | xAI | $1.25 | $0.20 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning (standard) | xAI | $1.25 | $0.20 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.20 Reasoning (standard) | xAI | $1.25 | $0.20 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.3 (standard) | xAI | $1.25 | $0.20 | $2.50 |
| Grok 4.5 (standard) | xAI | $2.00 | $0.30 | $6.00 |
| Grok 4.6 (standard) | xAI | $2.00 | $0.50 | $6.00 |
| Grok 4.7 (standard) | xAI | $2.00 | $0.50 | $6.00 |
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