How often is the pricing trends report updated?

The report is generated quarterly from VePrompts pricing history snapshots, which are captured by the monthly pricing update pipeline.

What data sources power this report?

Pricing snapshots are sourced from the OpenRouter API and normalized into a consistent schema covering input price, output price, context window, and provider.

LLM Pricing Trends

A quarterly look at how LLM API pricing moves across providers. Compare snapshots, spot price cuts, and find the cheapest new models.

Current models

328

vs 294 on 2026-06-12

Providers

vs 53 on 2026-06-12

New models

+34

since 2026-06-12

Price changes

since 2026-06-12

Average prices

Average input / 1M tokens $-12193.0149

Average output / 1M tokens $-12185.7300

Snapshots available

2026-06-06
2026-06-12
2026-06-13

Cheapest models right now

Model	Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash	Inclusionai	$0.0100	$0.0300	262k
IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro	Ibm Granite	$0.0170	$0.1120	131k
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Meta	$0.0200	$0.0300	131k
Mistral: Mistral Nemo	Mistral AI	$0.0200	$0.0300	131k
Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	Meta	$0.0270	$0.2010	131k
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	OpenAI	$0.0290	$0.1400	131k
LiquidAI: LFM2-24B-A2B	Liquid	$0.0300	$0.1200	128k
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0	Amazon	$0.0350	$0.1400	128k
Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024)	Cohere	$0.0375	$0.1500	128k
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b	OpenAI	$0.0390	$0.1800	131k

Recent price changes

Model	Provider	Input change	Output change
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5	Moonshotai	-0.0250 ($0.4000 → $0.3750)	+0.1250 ($1.90 → $2.02)

Newly added models

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic · in $5.00 / out $25.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic · in $5.00 / out $25.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

Anthropic · in $30.00 / out $150.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic · in $5.00 / out $25.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)

Anthropic · in $30.00 / out $150.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic · in $5.00 / out $25.00

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Anthropic · in $10.00 / out $50.00

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google · in $1.50 / out $9.00

OpenAI: GPT-5

OpenAI · in $1.25 / out $10.00

OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat

OpenAI · in $1.25 / out $10.00

OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex

OpenAI · in $1.25 / out $10.00

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image

OpenAI · in $10.00 / out $10.00

Published 2026-06-13

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