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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
74 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, 2h agoPhi-4$0.14textSynced from source, 2h agoQwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.40textSynced from source, 2h agoGPT-4o mini$0.60textSynced from source, 2h agoLlama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.79textSynced from source, 2h agoDeepSeek V3$0.89textSynced from source, 2h agoQwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$1codeSynced from source, 2h agoDeepSeek R1$3reasoningSynced from source, 20d agoGemini 3.7 Flash$4textSynced from source, 2h agoClaude Sonnet 5$10textSynced from source, 2h agoGPT-4o$10textSynced from source, 2h agoClaude Opus 5$25textSynced from source, 2h ago
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74 distinct days of readings so far. Every observation is kept; none is overwritten.

  • Gemini 3.7 Flash

    $4 +$2 over 74d

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77 readings, $2 to $4.

  • DeepSeek V3

    $0.89 −$0.14 over 74d

    DeepSeek V3: 78 readings, $1 to $0.89.

  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

    $0.79 +$0.08 over 74d

    Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: 78 readings, $0.71 to $0.79.

  • Claude Opus 5

    $25 +$0.00 over 74d

    Claude Opus 5: 78 readings, $25 to $25.

  • Claude Sonnet 5

    $10 +$0.00 over 74d

    Claude Sonnet 5: 78 readings, $10 to $10.

  • DeepSeek R1

    $3 +$0.00 over 74d

    DeepSeek R1: 58 readings, $3 to $3.

  • GPT-4o

    $10 +$0.00 over 74d

    GPT-4o: 78 readings, $10 to $10.

  • GPT-4o mini

    $0.60 +$0.00 over 74d

    GPT-4o mini: 78 readings, $0.60 to $0.60.

  • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

    $0.08 +$0.00 over 74d

    Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: 78 readings, $0.08 to $0.08.

  • Phi-4

    $0.14 +$0.00 over 74d

    Phi-4: 78 readings, $0.14 to $0.14.

  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

    $0.40 +$0.00 over 74d

    Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 78 readings, $0.40 to $0.40.

  • Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

    $1 +$0.00 over 74d

    Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: 78 readings, $1 to $1.

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