Budget-friendly
Great for structured tasks, support FAQs, and high-volume use cases.
Lowest costExample models
Compare model pricing, providers, context windows, and cost characteristics. Find the right model for your use case and budget.
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AI Model Guide
Different models for different needs. Compare pricing, context, capabilities, and task fit to find the best match for your use case and budget.
Same task. Different costs.
Output pricing alone ranges from $2.50 to $25.00 per million tokens across our tiers — model choice can change what the exact same task costs by roughly 10×.
Great for structured tasks, support FAQs, and high-volume use cases.
Lowest costExample models
Stronger reasoning, longer context, and more detailed answers.
Best valueExample models
Most capable models for the hardest reasoning and complex tasks.
Highest capabilityExample models
A quick comparison of one example model from each tier. See all 37 models in the pricing reference.
| Tier | Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budget-friendly | GPT-5.4 Mini | OpenAI | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400K | 2026-08-06 |
| Balanced | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1000K | 2026-09-06 |
| Frontier | Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1000K | 2026-08-06 |
Three key factors that influence your total cost.
Detailed explanations for how we calculate, compare, and verify model pricing.
Every model on this site is priced the same way: USD per one million tokens, shown separately for input and output. Providers don't all quote prices in that same unit on their own pages — some use per-thousand-token pricing, some show monthly tiers — so every price used here is converted to the same per-million-token basis before it reaches a calculator. That makes models comparable to each other, but it does not change what the provider actually charges.
AI provider prices change more often than most reference pages get updated. The prices behind every calculator on this site were manually checked against each provider's own pricing page as of 2026-09-08 — see the pricing reference for the verification date and caveats. Before committing a budget, re-check the number against your provider's current, official pricing page.
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