workload
Draft docs and changelogs
Medium input, long output.
Output-heavy work is where cheap output tokens matter most.
- Input per request
- 1.5k
- Output per request
- 1.2k
- Requests per month
- 3,000
- Tokens per month
- 8.1M
- Cheapest today
- $0.1935
- Most expensive
- $225
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 | $0.000065 | $0.1935 | Open | |
| GPT-OSS 20BOpenAIopen weights | $0.018 | $0.090 | $0.000135 | $0.405 | Openaff | |
| Llama 3.1 8BMetaopen weights | $0.050 | $0.080 | $0.000171 | $0.513 | Openaff | |
| Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.000201 | $0.603 | Open | |
| DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek | $0.086 | $0.171 | $0.000334 | $1.00 | Open | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.00063 | $1.89 | Open | |
| GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | $0.150 | $0.500 | $0.000825 | $2.47 | Open | |
| Grok 4.3xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.0049 | $14.62 | Open | |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.750 | $3.75 | $0.0056 | $16.88 | Open | |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.0075 | $22.50 | Openaff | |
| Grok 4.6xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.0102 | $30.60 | Open | |
| GPT-5.1OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.0139 | $41.62 | Open | |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.015 | $45.00 | Openaff | |
| Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.0174 | $52.20 | Open | |
| GPT-5.2 CodexOpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 | $0.0194 | $58.28 | Open | |
| GPT-5.4OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 | $0.0218 | $65.25 | Open | |
| Kimi K3Moonshot | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.0225 | $67.50 | Open | |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.030 | $90.00 | Openaff | |
| GPT-5.5OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.0435 | $131 | Open | |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.075 | $225 | Openaff | |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.075 | $225 | Open |
Other workloads
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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.