The market today

Data as of Jul 19, 2026 · prices checked daily · scores are aggregates of published results · change log · CSV

Frontier output price, median
$12.5
per 1M tokens
Workhorse output price, median
$3.5
per 1M tokens
Price events this quarter
4 cuts · 0 up
from the change log
Context windows at 1M or more
23
17 models released in 90 days

Price against capability

OpenAI Anthropic Google Other providers
405060708090100$0.25$0.5$1$2.5$5$10$25output price per 1M tokens, log scalepublished benchmark aggregateGPT-5.1 · $10 per 1M out · score 91GPT-5 mini · $2 per 1M out · score 76Claude Opus 4.6 · $25 per 1M out · score 93Claude Sonnet 4.6 · $15 per 1M out · score 86Claude Haiku 4.5 · $5 per 1M out · score 68Mistral Large 3 · $1.5 per 1M out · score 80Mistral Medium 3.1 · $2 per 1M out · score 73Mistral Small 3.2 · $0.30 per 1M out · score 64Command A · $10 per 1M out · score 77GPT-4o · $10 per 1M out · score 82GPT-4o mini · $0.60 per 1M out · score 68o3 · $8 per 1M out · score 94o4-mini · $4.4 per 1M out · score 88Codestral · $0.90 per 1M out · score 76Pixtral Large · $6 per 1M out · score 78Command R+ · $10 per 1M out · score 73Command R · $0.60 per 1M out · score 62Nova Pro · $3.2 per 1M out · score 74Nova Lite · $0.24 per 1M out · score 61Nova Micro · $0.14 per 1M out · score 50Sonar · $1 per 1M out · score 62Jamba 1.5 Large · $8 per 1M out · score 71Jamba 1.5 Mini · $0.40 per 1M out · score 60Mistral Large 3Mistral Small 3.2GPT-4o minio3o4-miniCodestralNova LiteNova Micro

One dot per model with both a listed API price and published benchmark results (23 of 78 tracked). Labeled models sit on the frontier: no model is both cheaper and higher-scoring. Dots link to model pages; benchmark method is described on each.

Price changes on record

DateModelSideChange%Source
Jul 19, 2026 o3 output $40 $8 -80% OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026 o3 input $10 $2 -80% OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026 GLM 5.2 output $0.823 $0.814 -1% OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026 GLM 5.2 input $0.262 $0.259 -1% OpenRouter directory