Models and pricing
Prefer high-quality models. Better models produce better work — fewer iterations, fewer mistakes, less time spent reviewing. The cost difference is usually worth it. Recommended models are marked below.
Effective costs are lower than they look. Most tokens are cached input, not fresh input or output. Our Claude usage has a ~90% cache hit rate, and output is less than 1% of total tokens. At those ratios, Claude Opus 4.6 costs roughly $1/M tokens — not the $5.00 input price.
Prices are in US dollars per million tokens.
| Model | Standard price | Long context | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Input cache | Output | Input | Input cache | Output | |
| OpenAI | ||||||
| GPT-4.1 | ||||||
gpt-4.1 (gpt-4.1-2025-04-14) |
$2.00 | $0.50 | $8.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-4.1-mini (gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14) |
$0.40 | $0.10 | $1.60 | — | — | — |
gpt-4.1-nano (gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14) |
$0.10 | $0.03 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5 | ||||||
gpt-5 (gpt-5-2025-08-07) |
$1.25 | $0.12 | $10.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-5-mini (gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07) |
$0.25 | $0.03 | $2.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-5-codex |
$1.25 | $0.12 | $10.00 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.1 | ||||||
gpt-5.1 (gpt-5.1-2025-11-13) |
$1.25 | $0.12 | $10.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-5.1-codex |
$1.25 | $0.12 | $10.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-5.1-codex-mini |
$0.25 | $0.03 | $2.00 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.2 | ||||||
gpt-5.2 (gpt-5.2-2025-12-11) |
$1.75 | $0.17 | $14.00 | — | — | — |
gpt-5.2-codex |
$1.75 | $0.17 | $14.00 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.3 | ||||||
gpt-5.3-codex |
$1.75 | $0.17 | $14.00 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.4 | ||||||
gpt-5.4 (gpt-5.4-2026-03-05)Over 272K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$2.50 | $0.25 | $15.00 | $5.00 | $0.50 | $22.50 |
gpt-5.4-mini (gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17) |
$0.75 | $0.07 | $4.50 | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.5 | ||||||
gpt-5.5 (gpt-5.5-2026-04-23)Over 272K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$5.00 | $0.50 | $30.00 | $10.00 | $1.00 | $45.00 |
| GPT-5.6 | ||||||
gpt-5.6-solPromotional pricing through at least 2026-11-21. Over 272K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$4.00 | $0.40 read, $5.00 write | $20.00 | $8.00 | $0.80 read, $10.00 write | $30.00 |
gpt-5.6-terra RecommendedOver 272K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$2.00 | $0.20 read, $2.50 write | $12.00 | $4.00 | $0.40 read, $5.00 write | $18.00 |
gpt-5.6-lunaOver 272K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$0.20 | $0.02 read, $0.25 write | $1.20 | $0.40 | $0.04 read, $0.50 write | $1.80 |
| Mistral | ||||||
| Devstral 2 | ||||||
devstral-latest Recommended |
$0.40 | — | $2.00 | — | — | — |
labs-devstral-small-2512 |
$0.10 | — | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| Mistral (Vertex) | ||||||
codestral-2 |
$0.30 | — | $0.90 | — | — | — |
mistral-medium-3 |
$0.40 | — | $2.00 | — | — | — |
mistral-small-2503 |
$0.10 | — | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| Vertex AI | ||||||
| Claude | ||||||
claude-haiku-4-5 |
$1.00 | $0.10 read, $1.25 write | $5.00 | — | — | — |
claude-sonnet-4-5 |
$3.00 | $0.30 read, $3.75 write | $15.00 | — | — | — |
claude-sonnet-4-6 |
$3.00 | $0.30 read, $3.75 write | $15.00 | — | — | — |
claude-sonnet-5 Recommended |
$2.00 | $0.20 read, $2.50 write | $10.00 | — | — | — |
claude-opus-4-5 |
$5.00 | $0.50 read, $6.25 write | $25.00 | — | — | — |
claude-opus-4-6 |
$5.00 | $0.50 read, $6.25 write | $25.00 | — | — | — |
claude-opus-4-7 |
$5.00 | $0.50 read, $6.25 write | $25.00 | — | — | — |
claude-opus-4-8 |
$5.00 | $0.50 read, $6.25 write | $25.00 | — | — | — |
claude-opus-5 Recommended |
$5.00 | $0.50 read, $6.25 write | $25.00 | — | — | — |
| Gemini 2.5 | ||||||
gemini-2.5-proOver 200K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$1.25 | $0.12 | $10.00 | $2.50 | $0.25 | $15.00 |
gemini-2.5-flash |
$0.30 | — | $2.50 | — | — | — |
| Gemini 3 | ||||||
gemini-3-flash-preview |
$0.50 | $0.05 | $3.00 | — | — | — |
| Gemini 3.1 | ||||||
gemini-3.1-pro-preview RecommendedOver 200K input tokens: input and cache costs double, output ×1.5. |
$2.00 | $0.20 | $12.00 | $4.00 | $0.40 | $18.00 |
gemini-3.1-flash-lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview) |
$0.10 | $0.01 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| Gemini 3.5 | ||||||
gemini-3.5-flash |
$1.50 | $0.15 | $9.00 | — | — | — |
| Gemini 3.7 | ||||||
gemini-3.7-flashIntroductory pricing until December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027: $1.50 input, $7.50 output, $0.15 cached input. |
$0.75 | $0.07 | $3.75 | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek | ||||||
deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-0528-maas |
$1.35 | — | $5.40 | — | — | — |
deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3.1-maas |
$0.60 | — | $1.70 | — | — | — |
deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3.2-maas |
$0.56 | $0.06 | $1.68 | — | — | — |
| Llama | ||||||
meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-maas |
$0.72 | — | $0.72 | — | — | — |
meta/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-maas |
$0.35 | — | $1.15 | — | — | — |
| Qwen | ||||||
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas |
$0.25 | — | $1.00 | — | — | — |
qwen/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-maas |
$1.00 | — | $4.00 | — | — | — |
| Kimi | ||||||
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-maas |
$0.60 | — | $2.50 | — | — | — |
| MiniMax | ||||||
minimaxai/minimax-m2-maas |
$0.30 | — | $1.20 | — | — | — |
| OpenAI OSS | ||||||
openai/gpt-oss-120b-maas |
$0.09 | — | $0.36 | — | — | — |
openai/gpt-oss-20b-maas |
$0.07 | — | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| GLM | ||||||
zai-org/glm-4.7-maas |
$0.60 | — | $2.20 | — | — | — |
zai-org/glm-5-maas Recommended |
$1.00 | $0.10 | $3.20 | — | — | — |