workload
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Long input, short structured output.
The cheapest workload to move down-market, because input tokens carry it.
- Input per request
- 8k
- Output per request
- 600
- Requests per month
- 2,000
- Tokens per month
- 17.2M
- Cheapest today
- $0.340
- Most expensive
- $220
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.
| Model | In /1M | Out /1M | Per request | Per month | Share | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral NemoMistralcheapestopen weights | $0.019 | $0.030 | $0.00017 | $0.340 | Open | |
| GPT-OSS 20BOpenAIopen weights | $0.018 | $0.090 | $0.000198 | $0.396 | Openaff | |
| Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.000318 | $0.636 | Open | |
| Llama 3.1 8BMetaopen weights | $0.050 | $0.080 | $0.000448 | $0.896 | Openaff | |
| DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek | $0.086 | $0.171 | $0.000791 | $1.58 | Open | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.001 | $2.08 | Open | |
| GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | $0.150 | $0.500 | $0.0015 | $3.00 | Open | |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.750 | $3.75 | $0.0083 | $16.50 | Open | |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.011 | $22.00 | Openaff | |
| Grok 4.3xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.0115 | $23.00 | Open | |
| GPT-5.1OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.016 | $32.00 | Open | |
| Grok 4.6xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.0196 | $39.20 | Open | |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.022 | $44.00 | Openaff | |
| GPT-5.2 CodexOpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 | $0.0224 | $44.80 | Open | |
| Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.0232 | $46.40 | Open | |
| GPT-5.4OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 | $0.029 | $58.00 | Open | |
| Kimi K3Moonshot | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.033 | $66.00 | Open | |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.044 | $88.00 | Openaff | |
| GPT-5.5OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.058 | $116 | Open | |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.110 | $220 | Openaff | |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.110 | $220 | Open |
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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.