Models

Which AI model should you use?

186 models with live API prices, independent benchmarks and real usage. Filter by what you're building and see your monthly cost.

Prices tracked from the official pages of

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google
  • xAI
  • Mistral
  • DeepSeek
  • Perplexity
  • Groq

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Every model, ranked for your use case

Pick a use case, set your volume, and compare quality against what you'll actually pay.

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Agents & automation: Tool calling, multi-step workflows and autonomous task execution.

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Every token-priced card shows its cost for this workload.

Our picks for agents & automation

Based on Artificial Analysis scores and your workload estimate

Top performer

Agentic
57.9top 1%
Est. / month
$1,708

Highest Agentic score among the models in view.

Best value

Agentic
40.2top 28%
Est. / month
$129.75

Most Agentic per dollar — about 13× cheaper than the top performer.

Budget pick

Agentic
29top 42%
Est. / month
$129.75

Cheapest model that still scores above the median on Agentic.

74 models · sorted by best fit

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Frontier

Agentic

57.9

top 1%

Intelligence

49.7

top 23%

Coding

81.6

top 1%

Input

$10

Cached input

$0.25

Output

$50

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$1,708

80× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Frontier

Agentic

56.5

top 2%

Coding

78

top 2%

Web design

1309 Elo

#11 of 172

Input

$5

Cached input

$0.50

Output

$25

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$865

40× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast mode +100%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Frontier

Agentic

53

top 6%

Coding

76.8

top 6%

Web design

1288 Elo

#23 of 172

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.50

Output

$6

per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens

Est. monthly cost$275

13× the cheapest in view

500K context
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Frontier

Agentic

51

top 9%

Intelligence

56.9

top 4%

Coding

77.1

top 5%

Input

$10

Cached input

$1

Output

$50

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$1,730

81× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast +100%Ultrafast +500%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Balanced

Agentic

50.2

top 13%

Coding

78.3

top 3%

Input

$4

Cached input

$0.40

Output

$20

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$692

32× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast +100%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Balanced

Agentic

43.6

top 21%

Coding

71.5

top 21%

Web design

1273 Elo

#30 of 172

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.20

Output

$10

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$346

16× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Balanced

Agentic

43.2

top 23%

Coding

76.7

top 7%

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.20

Output

$12

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$386

18× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast +100%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Frontier

Agentic

41.9

top 24%

Coding

74.3

top 15%

Web design

1258 Elo

#42 of 172

Input

$5

Cached input

$0.50

Output

$25

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$865

40× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast mode +100%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Frontier

Agentic

41.2

top 26%

Coding

72.4

top 17%

Web design

1280 Elo

#27 of 172

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.30

Output

$6

per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens

Est. monthly cost$269

13× the cheapest in view

500K context
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Googlefree tier

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Balanced

Our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows.

Agentic

40.2

top 28%

Intelligence

30.5

top 49%

Coding

76.3

top 9%

Input

$0.75

Cached input

$0.075

Output

$3.75

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$129.75

6.1× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Flex −50%Priority +80%Contributor −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Frontier

Agentic

38.6

top 32%

Coding

73.6

top 16%

Input

$5

Cached input

$0.50

Output

$25

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$865

40× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
OpenAI

gpt-5.5

Frontier

Agentic

36.4

top 34%

Coding

74.9

top 13%

Web design

1256 Elo

#43 of 172

Input

$5

Cached input

$0.50

Output

$30

per 1M tokens · Standard · <272K context length

Est. monthly cost$965

45× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Fast +150%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Googlefree tier

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Balanced

Our previous generation Flash model, balancing speed and multimodal capabilities across general agentic and everyday tasks.

Agentic

29

top 42%

Coding

69.2

top 25%

Web design

1300 Elo

#17 of 172

Input

$0.75

Cached input

$0.075

Output

$3.75

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$129.75

6.1× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Flex −50%Priority +80%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Frontier

Agentic

50.7

Coding

76.5

Web design

1294 Elo

#19 of 172

Input

$10

Cached input

$1

Output

$50

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$1,730

81× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Frontier

Agentic

41.3

Intelligence

23.1

Coding

68.8

Input

$1.32

Cached input

$0.044

Output

$3.96

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$172.92

8.1× the cheapest in view

1M contextOff-peak −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Balanced

Agentic

15.8

top 62%

Coding

52.1

top 47%

Web design

1188 Elo

#79 of 172

Input

$3

Cached input

$0.30

Output

$15

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$519

24× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Googlefree tier

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Efficient

A cost-efficient model, optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, translation, and simple data processing.

Agentic

14.3

top 64%

Intelligence

11.7

top 92%

Coding

49.3

top 51%

Input

$0.30

Cached input

$0.03

Output

$2.50

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$71.90

3.4× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Flex −50%Priority +80%Contributor −50%
Agents & automationChatbots & supportHigh-volume tasks
Balanced

Agentic

31.8

Coding

63

Web design

1283 Elo

#25 of 172

Input

$3

Cached input

$0.30

Output

$15

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$519

24× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Googlepreview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Frontier

Our 3rd generation Pro model, built for multimodal understanding, agentic capabilities, and vibe-coding.

Agentic

8.2

top 70%

Coding

68.8

top 27%

Web design

1251 Elo

#46 of 172

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.20

Output

$12

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$386

18× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Flex −50%Priority +80%Contributor −50%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Groq

GPT OSS 120B

Balanced

Agentic

3.7

top 75%

Coding

30.4

top 70%

Web design

966 Elo

#160 of 172

Input

$0.15

Cached input

—

Output

$0.60

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$27

1.3× the cheapest in view

131K context500 tokens/s
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Googlefree tier

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Frontier

A Pro model which excels at coding and complex reasoning tasks.

Agentic

1.6

top 81%

Coding

33.3

top 68%

Web design

1165 Elo

#100 of 172

Input

$1.25

Cached input

$0.125

Output

$10

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$291.25

14× the cheapest in view

Batch −50%Flex −50%Priority +80%
Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation
Balanced

Agentic

15.5

Coding

42.2

Web design

1194 Elo

#75 of 172

Input

$1.25

Cached input

$0.20

Output

$2.50

per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens

Est. monthly cost$143.50

6.7× the cheapest in view

1M context
Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Mistral

Mistral Small 4

Balanced

Agentic

1.2

top 85%

Intelligence

4.3

top 100%

Coding

26.6

top 73%

Input

$0.15

Cached input

—

Output

$0.60

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$27

1.3× the cheapest in view

Backend developmentFrontend developmentAgents & automationChatbots & support
Mistral

Mistral Large 3

Frontier

Agentic

1

top 90%

Coding

20.1

top 83%

Web design

1162 Elo

#103 of 172

Input

$0.50

Cached input

—

Output

$1.50

per 1M tokens · Standard

Est. monthly cost$80

3.7× the cheapest in view

Backend developmentFrontend developmentUI / UX designPlanning & reasoningAgents & automation

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What are you building?

AI 101

New to AI? Six words that explain everything here

No jargon. Read this once and every page on AgentCost will make sense.

AI model

The “brain”. You send it text (or images, audio) and it sends back an answer. GPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek are model families.

“Summarize this email” → a summary.

AI agent

A model plus tools and a loop: it plans, takes actions (edit files, browse, call APIs), checks results and keeps going until the task is done.

“Add a login page” → it writes code, runs it, fixes errors.

API

How your app talks to a model. You pay per use instead of a monthly seat, which is why your volume decides the bill.

Your support page sends each question to the model's API.

Tokens

The unit models are billed in — roughly ¾ of a word. Prices are “per 1M tokens”, with input (what you send) and output (what it writes) priced separately.

A 750-word article ≈ 1,000 tokens.

Context window

How much the model can read at once — its short-term memory. Bigger windows fit whole codebases or long documents in one request.

1M tokens ≈ several novels at once.

Benchmark

A standardized test that scores models on the same tasks, so you can compare quality fairly instead of trusting marketing.

Coding Index: how well a model solves real coding tasks.

Model or agent? The quick rule

You want an answer, text or a classification

→ A model

Call its API, or chat with it

You want a task done end-to-end

→ An agent

Use a ready agent or build one with a framework

You don't code and want a working app

→ An app-builder agent

Describe it, iterate by chatting

You want to cut cost

→ A smaller model

Use the “Best value” sort and test on real data

Usage trends

What developers are actually running

Real token volume across apps routed through OpenRouter (2026-10-29 – 2026-10-29). Not a survey — what production traffic is choosing right now.

Most-used models right now

Tokens processed in the latest ranking window.

  1. 158.3T
  2. 2
    glm-5.3-flashz-ai
    15.6T
  3. 311.4T
  4. 4
    hy4-previewtencent
    9.2T
  5. 57.8T
  6. 6
    deepseek-v4-flashdeepseek
    6.8T
  7. 7
    step-5-previewstepfun
    5.9T
  8. 8
    glm-5.3z-ai
    4.9T
  9. 9
    minimax-m3.1-flashminimax
    4.1T
  10. 10
    nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55bnvidia
    3.9T

Top AI apps by tokens this week

The tools developers build with every day.

  • H
    Hermes Agent14T tokens

    Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

  • C
    Claude Code12.4T tokens

    Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your entire codebase, plans and executes changes across files, runs tests, and iterates on failures, all from natural language prompts.

  • P
    pi6.3T tokens

    There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.

  • C
    Codex5.6T tokens

    A coding agent that helps you build and ship with AI

  • K
    Kilo Code5T tokens

    Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI to help developers ship code faster with agentic workflows.

  • O
    OpenClaw3.2T tokens

    OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

  • D
    DeepSeek Harness2.2T tokens
  • O
    omp2.1T tokens

Methodology

Sources, not opinions

Where do the prices come from?+

Straight from each provider's official pricing page, re-checked every few hours. Every model's “All prices” panel links the exact page it came from. If a page changes and our reader breaks, we keep showing the last verified prices and mark the provider below.

Where do the scores come from?+

We don't run benchmarks and never make up numbers. Intelligence, Coding and Agentic scores are Artificial Analysis's independent indexes; web and UI design scores are Design Arena's crowd-voted Elo ratings; “most used” ranks are real token volume from OpenRouter. Each is linked below.

How are “Our picks” chosen?+

From the models currently in view: the top performer has the highest score on the benchmark that fits your use case; best value has the most score per dollar among above-median models; the budget pick is the cheapest model that still scores above the median. Change filters or your workload and the picks update.

What do Frontier, Balanced and Efficient mean?+

A model's position in its own provider's lineup, read from the model family (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku, Pro/Flash/Lite, -mini…) and its price. It's a quick orientation aid — for actual quality, use the benchmark scores.

How is the monthly cost estimated?+

Your monthly input and output tokens × the model's per-million-token prices, with the cached share of input charged at the cache-read rate. It excludes tool fees, search grounding, images and taxes — always confirm on the provider's page before committing budget.

Is AgentCost affiliated with any AI provider?+

No. It's independent and free to use. No provider pays for placement or rankings.

Benchmark & usage sources

  • Artificial Analysis

    Independent Intelligence, Coding and Agentic indexes

  • Design Arena

    Crowd-voted Elo for websites, UI components and other design tasks

  • OpenRouter

    Real token usage across apps routed through OpenRouter

Pricing data status

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