ModelsPrice vs value
Price vs value
A current snapshot of frontier list prices next to what you get for each tier — context, modalities, reasoning notes, and the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index already used on Models. Grouped by lab so Flash / Pro / Opus / Sol / Luna (and the rest) scan as a lineup, not a history chart.
For chat and product subscription tiers (Free / Plus / Pro / Enterprise), use Plan tiers. For price over time, use Pricing history. Figures as of Sep 1, 2026. Missing cells are dashes, not guesses. Cached and batch rates appear only when publicly listed.
Disclaimer: List prices change. This is a sourced comparison for readers, not investment or purchasing advice. Prefer each lab's official pricing link over the summary cell.
Showing 23 of 23 tiers · snapshot Sep 1, 2026
Alibaba / Qwen
Official pricing →Qwen3.5 397B A17B Int4
3.5 Int4
—/—per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 262k
- AA Index
- 34
- Reasoning: reasoning (base model AA score)
- Text
- AA Index 34
Cheaper local serving of Qwen3.5 397B via GPTQ Int4 weights.
Self-host GPTQ Int4. Alibaba Cloud API for the base family is $0.60/$3.60 per 1M.
AA Index is base reasoning model, not a separate int4 eval. No first-party int4 token price.
Anthropic
Official pricing →Claude Fable 5.1
Fable
$10/$50per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1M
- AA Index
- 66
- Reasoning: adaptive reasoning, max effort
- Text
- Vision
- Tools
- AA Index 66
- Cache $0.25/1M
Top-tier coding and research when you want the current AA leader.
Cache reads $0.25 per 1M (0.025× input). List unchanged from Fable 5.
Sep 2026 flagship; identical weights to Mythos 5.1.
Claude Mythos 5.1
Mythos
$10/$50per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1M
- AA Index
- 66
- Reasoning: adaptive reasoning, max effort (scored via Fable 5.1 weights)
- Text
- Vision
- Tools
- AA Index 66
- Cache $0.25/1M
Same quality as Fable with more permissive cyber/life-sciences safeguards — if invited.
Invite-only — Project Glasswing / trusted access
Cache reads $0.25 per 1M where invited.
Not public API access. AA Index from shared Fable 5.1 weights.
DeepSeek
Official pricing →DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Pro
$1.32/$3.96per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1M
- AA Index
- 53
- Reasoning: max effort
- Text
- Tools
- AA Index 53
Open-weight quality cut (1.6T MoE / 49B active) on MIT weights.
First-party API as measured by Artificial Analysis (may differ from off-peak list).
AA-measured first-party list.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Flash
$0.44/$1.32per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1M
- AA Index
- 52
- Reasoning: max effort
- Text
- Tools
- AA Index 52
Cheaper DeepSeek V4 that still clears 50 on the Index.
First-party API as measured by Artificial Analysis.
AA-measured first-party list.
Google
Official pricing →Gemini 3.7 Flash
Flash
$0.75/$3.75per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1M
- AA Index
- 56
- Reasoning: high
- Text
- Vision
- AA Index 56
High-throughput Gemini — currently outscores 3.1 Pro Preview on AA.
AA Google API listing; Google’s own Gemini 3.7 pricing page did not load when Models was last refreshed.
Confirm on Google pricing; Models page notes first-party page gaps.
Mistral
Official pricing →Moonshot / Kimi
Official pricing →OpenAI
Official pricing →GPT-5.6 Sol
Sol
$4/$20per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1.05M
- AA Index
- 61
- Reasoning: max effort
- Text
- Vision
- Tools
- AA Index 61
OpenAI flagship quality; gpt-5.6 alias routes here.
Promotional list through at least 21 Nov 2026. Prompts over 272k input bill 2× input / 1.5× output.
GPT-5.6 Terra
Terra
$2/$12per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1.05M
- AA Index
- 57
- Reasoning: max effort
- Text
- Vision
- Tools
- AA Index 57
Mid GPT-5.6 tier — most of Sol’s window at half the input price.
GPT-5.6 Luna
Luna
$0.20/$1.20per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 1.05M
- AA Index
- 52
- Reasoning: max effort
- Text
- Vision
- Tools
- AA Index 52
Volume GPT-5.6 — same 1.05M window, priced for throughput.
Grok 4.6
Flagship
$2/$6per 1M
in / out
- Context
- 500k
- AA Index
- 61
- Reasoning: high effort
- Text
- Tools
- AA Index 61
xAI coding and agent work on a 500k window at a mid list price.
Standard band under 200k prompt tokens, per xAI docs.
Zhipu / Z.AI
Official pricing →
Alibaba / Qwen
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B 3.8 Flagship | $2/$6per 1M in / out | 984k | Alibaba’s 2.4T MoE open-weight flagship (95B active).
| Source |
Qwen3.5 397B A17B Int4 3.5 Int4 | —/—per 1M in / out Self-host GPTQ Int4. Alibaba Cloud API for the base family is $0.60/$3.60 per 1M. | 262k | Cheaper local serving of Qwen3.5 397B via GPTQ Int4 weights.
AA Index is base reasoning model, not a separate int4 eval. No first-party int4 token price. | Source |
Anthropic
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Claude Fable 5.1 Fable | $10/$50per 1M in / out Cache reads $0.25 per 1M (0.025× input). List unchanged from Fable 5. | 1M | Top-tier coding and research when you want the current AA leader.
Sep 2026 flagship; identical weights to Mythos 5.1. | Source |
Claude Mythos 5.1 Mythos | $10/$50per 1M in / out Cache reads $0.25 per 1M where invited. | 1M | Same quality as Fable with more permissive cyber/life-sciences safeguards — if invited.
Invite-only — Project Glasswing / trusted access Not public API access. AA Index from shared Fable 5.1 weights. | Source |
Claude Fable 5 Fable (prior) | $10/$50per 1M in / out | 1M | Prior Fable cut; still listed for heaviest agent jobs at the top price band.
Superseded on quality by Fable 5.1; same list band. | Source |
Claude Opus 5 Opus | $5/$25per 1M in / out | 1M | Long-horizon agents and deep reasoning at half Fable’s list price.
| Source |
Claude Sonnet 5 Sonnet | $2/$10per 1M in / out | 1M | Default Claude workhorse — 1M context at mid-tier dollars.
| Source |
Claude Haiku 4.5 Haiku | $1/$5per 1M in / out | 200k | Fast, cheap Claude for lighter classification and short jobs.
Still on the current Anthropic price card; smaller window than the 5.x line. | Source |
DeepSeek
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Pro | $1.32/$3.96per 1M in / out First-party API as measured by Artificial Analysis (may differ from off-peak list). | 1M | Open-weight quality cut (1.6T MoE / 49B active) on MIT weights.
AA-measured first-party list. | Source |
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Flash | $0.44/$1.32per 1M in / out First-party API as measured by Artificial Analysis. | 1M | Cheaper DeepSeek V4 that still clears 50 on the Index.
AA-measured first-party list. | Source |
| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gemini 3.7 Flash Flash | $0.75/$3.75per 1M in / out AA Google API listing; Google’s own Gemini 3.7 pricing page did not load when Models was last refreshed. | 1M | High-throughput Gemini — currently outscores 3.1 Pro Preview on AA.
Confirm on Google pricing; Models page notes first-party page gaps. | Source |
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Pro | —/—per 1M in / out No clean input/output pair independently confirmed on Google’s pricing page. | 1M | Pro-class preview; Flash 3.7 now leads it on this Index.
List $/1M unknown on this table. | Source |
Gemma 4 31B Gemma | —/—per 1M in / out Self-host / no first-party list price (AA lists $0/$0). | 256k | Apache-2 dense open weights when you self-host.
Not a Google API list-price tier. | Source |
| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Muse Spark 1.2 Muse Spark | $1.25/$4.25per 1M in / out | 1.05M | Meta’s API quality line (not Llama weights) for coding-heavy work.
AA labels proprietary; not downloadable Llama. | Source |
Llama 4 Maverick Llama 4 | $0.26/$0.91per 1M in / out Median provider price on AA — not a first-party Meta API list. | 1M | Downloadable Llama-branded open weights; far behind Muse Spark on AA.
Hosted $/1M is third-party median. | Source |
Mistral
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral Medium 3.5 Medium | $1.50/$7.50per 1M in / out | 256k | Mistral’s current mid-size open-weight sweet spot on this Index.
Large 3 scores well below Medium 3.5 on AA. | Source |
Moonshot / Kimi
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kimi K3 K3 | $3/$15per 1M in / out | 1.05M | Highest-ranked open-weight on the current Index (2.8T MoE / 104B active).
Kimi K3 License (commercial with restrictions). | Source |
OpenAI
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GPT-5.6 Sol Sol | $4/$20per 1M in / out Promotional list through at least 21 Nov 2026. Prompts over 272k input bill 2× input / 1.5× output. | 1.05M | OpenAI flagship quality; gpt-5.6 alias routes here.
| Source |
GPT-5.6 Terra Terra | $2/$12per 1M in / out | 1.05M | Mid GPT-5.6 tier — most of Sol’s window at half the input price.
| Source |
GPT-5.6 Luna Luna | $0.20/$1.20per 1M in / out | 1.05M | Volume GPT-5.6 — same 1.05M window, priced for throughput.
| Source |
| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Grok 4.6 Flagship | $2/$6per 1M in / out Standard band under 200k prompt tokens, per xAI docs. | 500k | xAI coding and agent work on a 500k window at a mid list price.
| Source |
Zhipu / Z.AI
Official pricing →| Tier | $/1M in · out | Context | What you get | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GLM-5.3 Pro | $1.40/$4.40per 1M in / out | 1M | Zhipu open-weight frontier; ties Kimi K3 at 60 on AA.
| Source |
GLM-5.3-Flash Flash | $0.15/$0.50per 1M in / out Native text+image input. ~10× cheaper list than GLM-5.3. | 1M | Multimodal Flash cut — ties Terra / Muse Spark quality at much lower $/1M.
MIT weights; 320B MoE / 18B active. | Source |