Interactive tool
Which AI tokens are the cheapest?
This tool compares per-token API pricing for seven leading models — GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Mistral Large 3 — plus a Muse reference row. Enter your monthly input and output tokens to see each provider’s estimated monthly bill, ranked cheapest to priciest, with prices verified on October 3, 2026.
Your monthly usage
Prompts, documents, and context you send.
2M tokens / month
Answers, code, and drafts the model writes.
500K tokens / month
Cost dashboard
Estimated monthly spend at 2M input / 500K output tokens — move the sliders above and watch the bars move.
Jev TypeSafeCheapest
$0.08/mo
Mistral Large 3 Mistral
$1.75/mo
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google
$3.38/mo
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek
$4.62/mo
Grok 4.7 xAI
$7.00/mo
GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI
$9.00/mo
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic
$9.00/mo
Ranked cheapest → priciest
Prices verified October 03, 2026
At this volume
Jev saves you $8.92/mo vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
Same 2M in / 500K out — the price of the model is the only thing changing.
| Model | $ / 1M in | $ / 1M out | Context | Your monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jev TypeSafe · official pricing → Early-access pricing from the official launch post; output tokens are free ("too cheap to meter"). | $0.04 | $0.00 | — | Cheapest$0.08 |
| Mistral Large 3 Mistral · official pricing → | $0.50 | $1.50 | 256K | $1.75 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash Google · official pricing → Introductory rate through Dec 31, 2026; $1.50 / $7.50 from Jan 1, 2027. | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1M | $3.38 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek · official pricing → Peak hours; off-peak (nights & weekends UTC) is half. | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1M | $4.62 |
| Grok 4.7 xAI · official pricing → Standard rate below 200K prompt tokens; long-context requests bill at 2×. | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | $7.00 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI · official pricing → Standard short-context rate; requests over 272K prompt tokens bill at 2× input / 1.5× output. | $2.00 | $10.00 | ≈1M | $9.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · official pricing → | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | $9.00 |
Muse — consumer app, no public per-token API pricing Muse bills in tokens inside the app, but Meta publishes no per-token API rate for it — so it can’t be ranked here. Included for context only. | — | |||
Honest notes
- Token price is not task price: a model that needs fewer tokens per answer can cost less overall even with a higher per-token rate. Test with your own workload, not just this table.
- This table ignores prompt-caching discounts, batch rates, and tool-call charges — all of which move the real invoice, especially for agentic workloads.
- API prices change often. We re-check this page against official pricing pages; always confirm the live rate before signing a budget to it.
- Interactive cost dashboard (charts) → · What is Jev? →
- Muse vs ChatGPT vs Claude comparison →
- Estimate your token usage → · How long will your Muse tokens last? → · What the “1 billion tokens” offer means →
How it works
Cheapest to priciest, at your exact volume
This tool answers a concrete buying question: at your actual monthly volume, which AI API costs the least? It compares per-token API pricing for seven models — GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI, Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic, Grok 4.7 from xAI, Gemini 3.8 Flash from Google, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Mistral Large 3 — plus a Muse reference row for context.
Enter your monthly input tokens (prompts, documents, and context you send) and output tokens (answers, code, and drafts the model writes), or jump in with a Light, Medium, or Heavy volume preset. Every change recalculates instantly: the cost dashboard ranks the models cheapest to priciest with proportional bars, and the detail table shows each model’s per-million-token rates, context window, and your cost at the chosen volume.
The Monthly/Annual toggle switches the whole page between monthly bills and yearly projections (annual is simply monthly × 12), and a summary banner names the cheapest model and how much it saves versus the priciest option at your volume. Each model name links to its provider’s official pricing page, since API rates move often and those pages are the only authoritative numbers.
What each part does
- Volume presets — Light (0.5M input / 0.1M output), Medium (2M / 0.5M, the default), and Heavy (10M / 3M) buttons that fill both volume fields at once.
- Input tokens per month — a number field paired with a slider (0–50M, in 0.5M steps) for tokens you send: prompts, documents, and context.
- Output tokens per month — a number field paired with a slider (0–20M, in 0.25M steps) for tokens the model writes: answers, code, and drafts.
- Monthly / Annual toggle — switches every figure on the page between monthly bills and annual projections; changing either volume clears the active preset.
- Cost dashboard — the ranked bar list from cheapest to priciest, with a “Cheapest” badge on the winner and each bar’s width proportional to the priciest option.
- Prices-verified pill — states when the per-token rates were last checked against official pricing pages: October 3, 2026.
- Savings summary box — names the cheapest model and states how much it saves versus the priciest option at your exact volume, since only the model changes.
- Ranked table — full detail for each model: $/1M input, $/1M output, context window, and your cost; each row links to the provider’s official pricing page.
- Muse reference row — an unranked row noting that Muse is a consumer app with no public per-token API rate, so it cannot be ranked; included for context only.
- Planning-estimate note — the disclaimer that this is a planning estimate, not a quote: it ignores prompt-caching discounts, batch rates, tool-call charges, and regional premiums.
FAQ
Token price questions, answered
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