workload

Classify rows at scale

Short input, short label out, huge volume.

Volume is the whole story here. A one-cent-per-thousand delta becomes real money.

Input per request
400
Output per request
20
Requests per month
200,000
Tokens per month
84M
Cheapest today
$1.64
Most expensive
$1,000

Most of the spread comes from output tokens on this workload. Applying a 60% prompt cache to the cheapest row moves it by $0 a month.

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All 21 models at list price, cheapest first.
ModelIn /1MOut /1MPer requestPer monthShareBuy
Mistral NemoMistralcheapestopen weights$0.019$0.030$0.000008$1.64Open
GPT-OSS 20BOpenAIopen weights$0.018$0.090$0.000009$1.80Openaff
Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba$0.030$0.130$0.000015$2.92Open
Llama 3.1 8BMetaopen weights$0.050$0.080$0.000022$4.32Openaff
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek$0.086$0.171$0.000038$7.56Open
Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle$0.100$0.400$0.000048$9.60Open
GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai$0.150$0.500$0.00007$14.00Open
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle$0.750$3.75$0.000375$75.00Open
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$1.00$5.00$0.0005$100Openaff
Grok 4.3xAI$1.25$2.50$0.00055$110Open
GPT-5.1OpenAI$1.25$10.00$0.0007$140Open
Grok 4.6xAI$2.00$6.00$0.00092$184Open
GPT-5.2 CodexOpenAI$1.75$14.00$0.00098$196Open
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic$2.00$10.00$0.001$200Openaff
Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle$2.00$12.00$0.001$208Open
GPT-5.4OpenAI$2.50$15.00$0.0013$260Open
Kimi K3Moonshot$3.00$15.00$0.0015$300Open
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic$4.00$20.00$0.002$400Openaff
GPT-5.5OpenAI$5.00$30.00$0.0026$520Open
Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic$10.00$50.00$0.005$1,000Openaff
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI$10.00$50.00$0.005$1,000Open

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Figures assume no retries, no failed calls, and no tool-use tokens. How the arithmetic works.

Prices read from 6 provider pricing pages on Sep 24, 2026. Some outbound links may be affiliate links. How that works.