Current LLM pricing from every major provider — GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek. Updated every two weeks because prices don't sit still
| Provider↕ | Model↕ | Input $/M↕ | Output $/M↕ | Context↕ | Strengths↕ | Subscription↕ | Free Tier↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | GPT-4o | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | Best all-round; vision, coding, reasoning | ChatGPT Plus $20/mo | ChatGPT Free limited |
| OpenAI | GPT-4.1 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1M | Faster, cheaper than GPT-4o; 1M context; good for production | ChatGPT Plus $20/mo | ChatGPT Free limited |
| OpenAI | o3 (Reasoning) | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K | Best for math, science, complex reasoning; 80% price cut in 2026 | ChatGPT Pro $200/mo | Limited on ChatGPT Free |
| OpenAI | o4-mini | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | Fast reasoning; coding & STEM; cheap | ChatGPT Plus $20/mo | Limited |
| Anthropic | Claude 4 Sonnet | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | Excellent coding, long context, tool use | Claude Pro $20/mo | Claude Free limited |
| Anthropic | Claude 4 Opus | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K | Deep reasoning, complex tasks, analysis | Claude Pro $20/mo | Limited |
| Anthropic | Claude 3.5 Haiku | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | Fastest Claude model; cheap; good for simple tasks | Claude Pro $20/mo | Claude Free limited |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1M | 1M context, multimodal, video understanding | Gemini Advanced $20/mo | Gemini Free limited | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | Cheapest from Big 3; 1M ctx; fast | Gemini Advanced $20/mo | Gemini Free limited | |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1M | CHEAPEST quality model; 1M ctx; 100-150 tok/s | DeepSeek Chat Free | Free with rate limits |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.44 | $0.87 | 1M | Deep reasoning; best value reasoning model | DeepSeek Chat Free | Free with rate limits |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek R1 | $0.55 | $2.19 | 128K | Open-weight reasoning; math, science | DeepSeek Chat Free | Free with rate limits |
| xAI | Grok 3 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 128K | Real-time knowledge; X/Twitter integration | SuperGrok $30/mo | Limited on X |
| Meta | Llama 4 Maverick (via API) | $0.20 | $0.60 | 1M | Open-weight; strong coding via third-party APIs | N/A (open model) | Free to self-host |
| Mistral | Mistral Large 3 | $0.50 | $1.50 | 262K | Multilingual; European data sovereignty; strong agentic tasks | Le Chat $14/mo | Le Chat Free limited |
| Alibaba | Qwen 3.7 Max | $1.25 | $3.75 | 1M | Frontier coding agent; 35h autonomous; Token Plan available | Token Plan discount | 1M free quota |
| Alibaba | Qwen 3.7 Plus | $0.40 | $1.60 | 1M | 6x cheaper than Max; same 1M ctx; vision; ~2pt gap on SWE-Bench | Token Plan discount | 1M free quota |
| ByteDance | Doubao 1.5 Pro | $0.50 | $1.00 | 128K | ByteDance model; competitive pricing | Free | Free tier |
| 01.AI | Yi-Lightning | $0.14 | $0.14 | 128K | Fast Chinese model; ultra-cheap; good for real-time | Free | Free tier |