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186 models with live API prices, independent benchmarks and real usage. Filter by what you're building and see your monthly cost.
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Build software
Create media
Run in production
Backend development: APIs, services, databases, debugging and refactors across large codebases.
Every token-priced card shows its cost for this workload.
Based on Artificial Analysis scores and your workload estimate
Top performer
Highest Coding score among the models in view.
Best value
Most Coding per dollar — about 13× cheaper than the top performer.
Budget pick
Cheapest model that still scores above the median on Coding.
70 models · sorted by best fit
Coding
81.6
top 1%
Intelligence
49.7
top 23%
Agentic
57.9
top 1%
Input
$10
Cached input
$0.25
Output
$50
per 1M tokens · Standard
80× the cheapest in view
Coding
78
top 2%
Agentic
56.5
top 2%
Web design
1309 Elo
#11 of 172
Input
$5
Cached input
$0.50
Output
$25
per 1M tokens · Standard
40× the cheapest in view
Coding
78.3
top 3%
Agentic
50.2
top 13%
Input
$4
Cached input
$0.40
Output
$20
per 1M tokens · Standard
32× the cheapest in view
Coding
77.1
top 5%
Intelligence
56.9
top 4%
Agentic
51
top 9%
Input
$10
Cached input
$1
Output
$50
per 1M tokens · Standard
81× the cheapest in view
Coding
76.8
top 6%
Agentic
53
top 6%
Web design
1288 Elo
#23 of 172
Input
$2
Cached input
$0.50
Output
$6
per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens
13× the cheapest in view
Coding
76.7
top 7%
Agentic
43.2
top 23%
Input
$2
Cached input
$0.20
Output
$12
per 1M tokens · Standard
18× the cheapest in view
Our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows.
Coding
76.3
top 9%
Intelligence
30.5
top 49%
Agentic
40.2
top 28%
Input
$0.75
Cached input
$0.075
Output
$3.75
per 1M tokens · Standard
6.1× the cheapest in view
Coding
74.9
top 13%
Agentic
36.4
top 34%
Web design
1256 Elo
#43 of 172
Input
$5
Cached input
$0.50
Output
$30
per 1M tokens · Standard · <272K context length
45× the cheapest in view
Coding
74.3
top 15%
Agentic
41.9
top 24%
Web design
1258 Elo
#42 of 172
Input
$5
Cached input
$0.50
Output
$25
per 1M tokens · Standard
40× the cheapest in view
Coding
73.6
top 16%
Agentic
38.6
top 32%
Input
$5
Cached input
$0.50
Output
$25
per 1M tokens · Standard
40× the cheapest in view
Coding
72.4
top 17%
Agentic
41.2
top 26%
Web design
1280 Elo
#27 of 172
Input
$2
Cached input
$0.30
Output
$6
per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens
13× the cheapest in view
Coding
71.5
top 21%
Agentic
43.6
top 21%
Web design
1273 Elo
#30 of 172
Input
$2
Cached input
$0.20
Output
$10
per 1M tokens · Standard
16× the cheapest in view
Coding
71.1
top 22%
Web design
1218 Elo
#66 of 172
UI components
1234 Elo
#48 of 157
Input
$2.50
Cached input
$0.25
Output
$15
per 1M tokens · Standard · <272K context length
23× the cheapest in view
Coding
76.5
Agentic
50.7
Web design
1294 Elo
#19 of 172
Input
$10
Cached input
$1
Output
$50
per 1M tokens · Standard
81× the cheapest in view
Our previous generation Flash model, balancing speed and multimodal capabilities across general agentic and everyday tasks.
Coding
69.2
top 25%
Agentic
29
top 42%
Web design
1300 Elo
#17 of 172
Input
$0.75
Cached input
$0.075
Output
$3.75
per 1M tokens · Standard
6.1× the cheapest in view
Our 3rd generation Pro model, built for multimodal understanding, agentic capabilities, and vibe-coding.
Coding
68.8
top 27%
Agentic
8.2
top 70%
Web design
1251 Elo
#46 of 172
Input
$2
Cached input
$0.20
Output
$12
per 1M tokens · Standard
18× the cheapest in view
Coding
68.8
Intelligence
23.1
Agentic
41.3
Input
$1.32
Cached input
$0.044
Output
$3.96
per 1M tokens · Standard
8.1× the cheapest in view
Coding
63
Agentic
31.8
Web design
1283 Elo
#25 of 172
Input
$3
Cached input
$0.30
Output
$15
per 1M tokens · Standard
24× the cheapest in view
Coding
52.1
top 47%
Agentic
15.8
top 62%
Web design
1188 Elo
#79 of 172
Input
$3
Cached input
$0.30
Output
$15
per 1M tokens · Standard
24× the cheapest in view
Coding
51.5
Input
$1
Cached input
$0.20
Output
$2
per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens
5.4× the cheapest in view
Coding
49.4
top 50%
Web design
1185 Elo
#83 of 172
UI components
1161 Elo
#83 of 157
Input
$1.25
Cached input
$0.125
Output
$10
per 1M tokens · Standard
14× the cheapest in view
Coding
46.9
Agentic
7
Input
$1.50
Cached input
—
Output
$7.50
per 1M tokens · Standard
14× the cheapest in view
Coding
42.2
Agentic
15.5
Web design
1194 Elo
#75 of 172
Input
$1.25
Cached input
$0.20
Output
$2.50
per 1M tokens · Standard · < 200k prompt tokens
6.7× the cheapest in view
Coding
39.7
top 62%
Input
$15
Cached input
$7.50
Output
$60
per 1M tokens · Standard
116× the cheapest in view
Not sure where to begin?
What you want to build, how much you code and your budget: you'll get the exact tools and the model to use.
Step 1 of 3
AI 101
No jargon. Read this once and every page on AgentCost will make sense.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Real token volume across apps routed through OpenRouter (2026-10-29 – 2026-10-29). Not a survey — what production traffic is choosing right now.
Tokens processed in the latest ranking window.
The tools developers build with every day.
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.
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.
There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.
A coding agent that helps you build and ship with AI
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.
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.
Methodology
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No. It's independent and free to use. No provider pays for placement or rankings.
Independent Intelligence, Coding and Agentic indexes
Crowd-voted Elo for websites, UI components and other design tasks
Real token usage across apps routed through OpenRouter
Community
Every testimonial is verified by hand before it's published.
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