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How far apart are model output prices?

Output tokens are the expensive half of an API bill and the prices span two orders of magnitude. Ranked cheapest to dearest, from the figures we sync from OpenRouter.
Every dot is a row in Language and embedding models, with the source that reported it and the moment it was read.12 tracked →
Output price, $ per million tokens
28 days of readings

Claude Opus 5 leads on output price per million tokens with $25, 25.0x the median of $1.

HighestClaude Opus 5 · $25MedianQwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct · $1LowestLlama 3.1 8B Instruct · $0.08Tracked12

Dot height = dollars per million output tokens, dot colour = modality. Left to right is rank, cheapest first.

  • text10
  • code1
  • reasoning1
$0.00$6$13$19$25Output price, $ per million tokensLowestHighestLlama 3.1 8B Instruct$0.08Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$1Claude Opus 5$25Llama 3.1 8B Instruct$0.08textSynced from source, 22h agoPhi-4$0.14textSynced from source, 22h agoLlama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.32textSynced from source, 22h agoQwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.40textSynced from source, 22h agoGPT-4o mini$0.60textSynced from source, 22h agoDeepSeek V3$0.89textSynced from source, 22h agoQwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$1codeSynced from source, 22h agoDeepSeek R1$3reasoningSynced from source, 22h agoGemini 3.7 Flash$4textSynced from source, 22h agoClaude Sonnet 5$10textSynced from source, 22h agoGPT-4o$10textSynced from source, 22h agoClaude Opus 5$25textSynced from source, 22h ago
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What has moved since we started watching

28 distinct days of readings so far. Every observation is kept; none is overwritten.

  • Gemini 3.7 Flash

    $4 +$2 over 28d

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: 31 readings, $2 to $4.

  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

    $0.32 −$0.39 over 28d

    Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: 32 readings, $0.71 to $0.32.

  • DeepSeek V3

    $0.89 −$0.14 over 28d

    DeepSeek V3: 32 readings, $1 to $0.89.

  • Claude Opus 5

    $25 +$0.00 over 28d

    Claude Opus 5: 32 readings, $25 to $25.

  • Claude Sonnet 5

    $10 +$0.00 over 28d

    Claude Sonnet 5: 32 readings, $10 to $10.

  • DeepSeek R1

    $3 +$0.00 over 28d

    DeepSeek R1: 32 readings, $3 to $3.

  • GPT-4o

    $10 +$0.00 over 28d

    GPT-4o: 32 readings, $10 to $10.

  • GPT-4o mini

    $0.60 +$0.00 over 28d

    GPT-4o mini: 32 readings, $0.60 to $0.60.

  • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

    $0.08 +$0.00 over 28d

    Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: 32 readings, $0.08 to $0.08.

  • Phi-4

    $0.14 +$0.00 over 28d

    Phi-4: 32 readings, $0.14 to $0.14.

  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

    $0.40 +$0.00 over 28d

    Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32 readings, $0.40 to $0.40.

  • Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

    $1 +$0.00 over 28d

    Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: 32 readings, $1 to $1.

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