LLM Price Index
Official LLM API prices as a trackable index: US vs Chinese price trends, the cheapest model at a given benchmark score, and GPU rental prices. Updated daily; data downloadable.
Data updated: 2026-11-05Chinese modelsUS modelsAll models
Base 2026-07-13 = 100 · updated 2026-11-05 · The median US model costs 2.6× the median Chinese model.
MethodologyChain-linked geometric mean · base 2026-07-13 = 100
Data is a daily snapshot of each model’s official API list price; the price used is the blended price = (3 × input + 1 × output) / 4, in USD per 1M tokens. The index is a chain-linked geometric mean: each day it takes only models listed on both that day and the previous one, computes the geometric mean of their price ratios and multiplies it onto the previous day’s index, so adding or retiring models never moves it; only price changes of listed models do. For models quoted in CNY the USD figure is converted at the daily rate; on days their CNY price is unchanged the ratio counts as 1, so FX moves do not enter the index. A falling index means the same thing got cheaper; it says nothing about quality. For quality, see the cost-vs-benchmark section below.
COST VS QUALITY
Cost vs. quality: who is cheapest at a given scoreGreen dots are the frontier: no cheaper model scores higher; grey dots are the rest
Cheapest model reaching a score level (AA Intelligence Index)
- At least 95% of the top score: Claude Opus 5.5 · $8.00
- At least 90% of the top score: GPT-6.1 Sol · $4.00
- At least 80% of the top score: GPT-6.1 Terra · $2.00
- At least 70% of the top score: GPT-6.1 Terra · $2.00
- At least 60% of the top score: Claude Haiku 5.5 · $0.20
Price-score frontier · AA Intelligence Index
| Model | Blended / 1M tokens | AA Intelligence Index | % of top score |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | $0.17 | 26.7 | 45% |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.20 | 36.5 | 62% |
| GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI | $2.00 | 51.3 | 87% |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $4.00 | 54.6 | 92% |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $8.00 | 59.1 | 100% |
Price-score frontier · LiveBench
| Model | Blended / 1M tokens | LiveBench | % of top score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.20 | 71.6 | 83% |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.53 | 75.8 | 88% |
| GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI | $2.00 | 80.5 | 93% |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $4.00 | 85.6 | 99% |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $8.00 | 86.0 | 99% |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $20.00 | 86.5 | 100% |
GPU RENTAL
GPU cloud rentalPer hour, per GPU
| GPU | Hourly rate | Samples | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| B300 288GB288 GB | $7.88 | 1 | 2026-11-04 |
| B200 180GB180 GB | $7.45–$12.51 | 4 | 2026-11-05 |
| H200 141GB141 GB | $2.99–$4.61 | 3 | 2026-11-05 |
| H100 SXM5 80GB80 GB | $1.93–$4.11 | 8 | 2026-11-05 |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB96 GB | $1.20–$2.27 | 26 | 2026-11-05 |
| RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB48 GB | $0.56–$1.07 | 20 | 2026-11-05 |
| L40S 48GB48 GB | $0.60–$0.91 | 10 | 2026-11-05 |
| RTX 5090 32GB32 GB | $0.44–$0.53 | 30 | 2026-11-05 |
| RTX 5090D 24GB24 GB | $0.44–$0.53 | 30 | 2026-11-05 |
| RTX 4090D 24GB24 GB | $0.34–$0.44 | 30 | 2026-11-05 |
Prices come from the public vast.ai market API (international cloud GPUs), not China-market or domestic cloud prices. Same chain-linked method as above, using the midpoint of each GPU’s hourly range.
PRICE CHANGES
Token price changesOfficial list-price moves, newly tracked models, channel price moves
Official list-price changesblended USD; input / output per 1M tokens
| Date | Model | Before | After | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-04 | Mistral Large 4 PreviewMistral | $1.36 / $4.18 | $0.700 / $2.10 | -49% |
| 2026-10-29 | Mistral Large 4 PreviewMistral | $0.680 / $2.09 | $1.36 / $4.18 | +100% |
| 2026-10-20 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | $0.090 / $0.360 | $0.150 / $0.600 | +67% |
| 2026-09-13 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.440 / $1.32 | $0.300 / $1.20 | -20% |
| 2026-08-23 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $5.00 / $30.00 | $4.00 / $20.00 | -29% |
| 2026-08-21 | DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | $0.435 / $0.870 | $1.32 / $3.96 | +264% |
| 2026-08-21 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.140 / $0.280 | $0.440 / $1.32 | +277% |
These are changes observed in our daily snapshots of official list prices. An observed change may lag a vendor announcement, and a few early ones may be source corrections rather than vendor price moves.
New models
- 2026-10-27GPT-6.1 Terra1 added
- 2026-10-24Kimi K3.1 Pro1 added
- 2026-10-20MiniMax M3.1 Flash1 added
- 2026-10-14Gemini 4 Argon1 added
- 2026-10-13Muse Wonder1 added
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- 2026-10-08Claude Haiku 5.51 added
- 2026-10-07Mistral Large 4 Preview1 added
- 2026-10-01GLM-5.3-Flash1 added
- 2026-09-30GPT-6.1 Sol1 added
- 2026-09-29Claude Sonnet 5.51 added
- 2026-09-28MiMo-V2.6-Flash1 added
- 2026-09-27MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, Qwen3.8 27B, Solar Pro 4, Step 5 Preview5 added
- 2026-09-23Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6 Sol3 added
- 2026-09-22Grok 4.71 added
- 2026-09-21GPT-5.3 Codex, Muse Spark 1.32 added
- 2026-09-13Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.20, Qwen3.8-Max5 added
- 2026-08-21GLM-5.3, Gemini 3.7 Flash2 added
- 2026-08-14GLM-5-Turbo, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-5.6 Cyber … +1117 added
- 2026-08-06Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 53 added
- 2026-07-17GLM-5.2, Kimi K32 added
Dates are when tracking began, not release dates.
Channel price changes (40) · show
| Date | Type | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB Factory Price: ¥267232–626325 → ¥249,889–416,481 (Auto-retrieved 2026-10-22 public report (original $53,000–53,000): "a single B300 costs roughly $53,000 to purchase" Source https://akash.network/the-bid/b300-rental-price-2026-cost-per-hour/) |
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU B200 180GB Factory Price: ¥200424–459305 → ¥249,889–416,481 (Auto-retrieved 2026-10-28 public report (original $300,000–500,000): "Complete system quote: The DGX B200 is Nvidia's branded complete server system containing eight B200 GPUs, NVSwitch fabric, dual Xeon CPUs, 4 T" Source https://www.runpod.io/articles/guides/nvidia-b200) |
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU A800 PCIe 80GB Market Price: ¥145000–145000 → ¥108,000–120,000 (Auto-retrieved 2026-11-02 public report: "Page current price: Sale price: ¥ 108000.00." Source http://www.jhaxshop.cn/index.php?s=/index/goods/index/id/363) |
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB Market Price: ¥—–— → ¥117,560–117,560 (Auto-retrieved 2026-10-30 public report: "retail price approximately $16499.99 (about ¥117,000)" Source https://original.ifeng.com/c/8xdbmwld0aM) |
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU L20 48GB Market Price: ¥25000–35000 → ¥35,000–35,000 (Auto-retrieved 2026-10-26 public report: "NVIDIA Tesla L20 48G, recently on special promotion at "Chengdu Qiangchuan Technology Co., Ltd.", with a discounted price of ¥35000" Source https://price.zol.com.cn/1265/12653181.html) |
| 2026-11-02 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090 32GB Market Price: ¥50000–55000 → ¥44,999–44,999 (Auto-retrieved 2026-11-01 public report: "RTX 5090D 32G experienced a rollercoaster, dropping ¥6000 the day before and then rebounding ¥6000, effectively staying put, with the lowest price across the network that day being ¥44999." Source https://c.m.163.com/news/a/LAM8L7FH0511CPVM.html?spss=backflow-index-hotlist) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB Factory Price: ¥415631–415631 → ¥267,232–626,325 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-21 (original $40,000–50,000): "B300 GPUs list in the $40,000-$50,000 range per card" Source https://www.spheron.network/gpu-rental/b300/) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU B200 180GB Factory Price: ¥201012–470832 → ¥200,424–459,305 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-23 (original $450,000–550,000): "System quote: 8-GPU HGX B200 system, $450,000-$550,0001, Integrated platform with NVLink fabric, NICs, and CPUs." Source https://www.thundercompute.com/blog/nvidia-b200-pricing) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU H200 141GB Factory Price: ¥207548–376599 → ¥233,828–417,550 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-22 (original $35,000–45,000): "H200 NVL cards sell for approximately $35,000-$45,000 through authorized resellers." Source https://www.runpod.io/articles/guides/nvidia-h200-gpu) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU H100 SXM5 80GB Factory Price: ¥180768–696290 → ¥200,424–694,803 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-22 (original $250,000–400,000): "System quote: Complete DGX H100 systems (8x SXM H100) are priced at approximately $250,000-$400,000 to buy outright." Source https://www.runpod.io/articles/guides/nvidia-h100) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU H100 SXM5 80GB Market Price: ¥337500–350000 → ¥268,000–268,000 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-26: "Page current price: ¥268,000.00. Current price is: ¥268,000.00. Hopper · 80GB HBM3 · 3.35TB/s · NVLink 900GB/s · 700W. Stock 6 units." Source https://www.uaige.com/product/nvidia-h100-sxm5/) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU Ascend 910C 128GB Market Price: ¥—–— → ¥80,000–200,000 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-08-27: "Reported pricing fell sharply from ~$28,000 amid scarcity to roughly 80,000-200,000+ CNY per card in Chinese channels." Source https://chips.techbuzzchina.com/chips/ascend-910c) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell 84GB Factory Price: ¥—–— → ¥76,161–76,161 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-23 (original $11,400–11,400): "It is reported that the single card price of RTX PRO 5500 is as high as $11,400." Source https://tech.ifeng.com/c/8xNKug2OH87) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell 84GB Market Price: ¥85000–95000 → ¥85,000–90,000 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-21: "As previously reported by The Information, RTX PRO 5500 is priced at around RMB 85,000–90,000 in China, comparable to Hu" Source https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/10/21/news-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-reportedly-draws-35b-in-china-orders-with-supply-seen-at-just-5-10/) |
| 2026-10-26 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090 32GB Market Price: ¥35000–54000 → ¥50,000–55,000 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-25: "RTX 5090 spot prices are generally in the ¥51,000-¥55,000 range." Source https://www.163.com/dy/article/LA46PAPN0512B07B.html) |
| 2026-10-20 | Channel price | Upstage Solar Pro 4: Input $0.09→$0.15, Output $0.36→$0.6 /million tokens |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB factory price: ¥251,265–293,142 → ¥415,631–415,631 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-19 (original $496,639–496,639): "Page current price: System quote: Starting at $496,639." Source https://bizon-tech.com/bizon-x9000-g5.html) |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU H200 141GB factory price: ¥234,563–301,581 → ¥207,548–376,599 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-16 (original $293,000–450,000): "System quote: A single H200 (SXM) runs $31,000–$40,000 through OEM resellers, and a full 8-GPU HGX H200 system runs $350,000–$450,000." Source https://www.thundercompute.com/blog/nvidia-h200-pricing) |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU H100 SXM5 80GB factory price: ¥207,712–268,016 → ¥180,768–696,290 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-19 (original $350,000–350,000): "Page current price: System quote: For enterprise buyers, full multi-GPU HGX H100 systems — such as 8-GPU servers — routinely exceed $350,000" Source https://electronics.alibaba.com/question/nvidia-h100-price-guide-buy-vs-rent-in-2026) |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB factory price: ¥100,000–110,000 → ¥107,122–107,122 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-13 (original $16,000–16,000): "Official price is $16,000 (approx. RMB¥100,000 (approx. HK$109,000))." Source https://www.techritual.com/2026/10/13/591596/) |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090 32GB market price: ¥40,870–63,730 → ¥35,000–54,000 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-18: "The 32GB RTX 5090, which was around ¥35,000 in early September, had risen to about ¥54,000 by October 14, an increase of over 50% in just over a month." Source https://post.smzdm.com/p/a95662xo/) |
| 2026-10-19 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090D 24GB market price: ¥30,000–40,000 → ¥28,000–40,000 (Automatically retrieved from public report on 2026-10-18: "The China-exclusive 5090D v2 also climbed from ¥28,000 to ¥36,000, nearing ¥40,000." Source https://post.smzdm.com/p/a95662xo/) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB market price: ¥—–— → ¥54,000–54,000 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-14: "Current page price: NVIDIA RTXPRO 5000 Blackwell 48G graphics card for modeling, rendering, editing, professional card. ¥ 54000.00.") Source https://guangtao.taobao.com/product-c21a36bb70e703d13c60ac1d11cd9d489d510cb0adaf90e4d1d175c8081eac38.html |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell 84GB market price: ¥—–— → ¥85,000–95,000 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-13: "SMM has learned that some suppliers in mainland China have already quoted a pre-sale price of 95,000 yuan per unit.") Source https://news.metal.com/newscontent/104154899-smm-analysis-price-hikes-reach-desktop-devices-computing-power-shortage-shows-no-sign-of-peaking |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB factory price: ¥—–— → ¥100,000–110,000 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-08-26 (original $16,000–16,000): "The higher-end RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses a full GB202 core, with 24064 CUDA cores, 96GB VRAM, and an official price of $16000 (approx. ¥100,000).") Source https://m.sohu.com/a/1087195681_115831?scm=10001.325_13-325_13.0.0-0-0-0-0.5_1334 |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090 32GB market price: ¥—–— → ¥40,870–63,730 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-09-15: "Newegg and Amazon only have third-party sellers shipping, with prices ranging from $6395 to $9500 (Kuai Technology note: currently approx. ¥42900-63730).") Source https://news.mydrivers.com/1/1151/1151149.htm |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB Market Price: ¥875,000–1,000,000 → ¥875,000–875,000 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-09-17: "8-card server price ÷ 8 for single card: The price of a B300 server in the Chinese market is approximately RMB 7 million per unit." Source https://idc-index.com/columns/b300-china-supply-chain) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB Factory Price: ¥251,265–355,121 → ¥251,265–293,142 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-14 (original $300,000–350,000): "8-card server price ÷ 8 for single card: DGX B300 system (8 GPUs): $300,000–$350,000 OEM anchor – holding since Q1 2026 and still the center of gravity in Octobe" Source https://tech-insider.org/nvidia-blackwell-gpu-pricing/) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU H100 SXM5 80GB Factory Price: ¥234,563–268,072 → ¥207,712–268,016 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-09 (original $31,000–31,000): "Single H100 80GB card, new, ~$31,000 (live retail listings)." Source https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/h100-gpu-cost/) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU B200 180GB Factory Price: ¥—–— → ¥201,012–470,832 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-12 (original $390,704–390,704): "8-card server price ÷ 8 for single card: One concrete example is the Exxact TensorEX HGX B200 server: its Essential configuration costs $390,703.50, including ei" Source https://northflank.com/blog/how-much-do-an-nvidia-b200-gpu-cost) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | GPU B300 288GB Factory Price: ¥360,000–432,000 → ¥251,265–355,121 (Auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-11 (original $300,000–350,000): "8-card server price ÷ 8 for single card: DGX B300's $300,000–$350,000 ($37,500–$43,750 per GPU) as of Q1 2026, an anchor still holding as of October 2026." Source https://tech-insider.org/nvidia-blackwell-gpu-pricing/) |
| 2026-10-14 | Channel price | StepFun Step 5 Preview: Input ¥7→¥7.0, Output ¥20→¥20.0 /million tokens (Official website automatic pricing; Based on: Step 5 Preview's cache-hit input price adjusted from ¥0.35/million tokens to ¥0.70/million tokens starting from Beijing Time 2026-10-14 00:30. | Model ID | Input Price (cache miss) ) |
| 2026-10-12 | Channel price | GPU H200 141GB factory price: ¥201600–324000 → ¥234,563–301,581 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-01 (original $35,000–45,000): "Indicative pricing: H200 NVL (standalone): Approximately $35,000-$45,000 per card through authorized resellers." Source https://www.runpod.io/articles/guides/nvidia-h200-gpu) |
| 2026-10-12 | Channel price | GPU H100 SXM5 80GB factory price: ¥252000–288000 → ¥234,563–268,072 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-09-20 (original $35,000–40,000): "While prices have moderated from their 2023-2024 peaks, new units still command $25,000 to $40,000 depending on the form" Source https://electronics.alibaba.com/product/nvidia-h100-graphics-card) |
| 2026-10-12 | Channel price | GPU A800 PCIe 80GB market price: ¥70000–85000 → ¥145,000–145,000 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-08: "ZOL Sichuan Market: NVIDIA Tesla A800 80G is currently on special promotion at "Chengdu Qiangchuan Technology Co., Ltd." for ¥145,000, a great deal worth buying!" Source https://price.zol.com.cn/1257/12573075.html) |
| 2026-10-08 | Channel price | GPU L20 48GB factory price: ¥24000–32000 → ¥23,347–23,481 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-09-29 (original $3,480–3,500): "NVIDIA L20 48g Tensor Core GPU HPC PC GPU graphics card NVIDIA L20 new factory price. US$3,480-3,500." Source https://zh.accio.com/plp/nvidial20%E4%BB%B7%E6%A0%BC) |
| 2026-10-08 | Channel price | GPU RTX 5090D 24GB factory price: ¥20500–20999 → ¥16,499–16,499 (auto-retrieved public report on 2026-10-08: "Page current price: GeForce RTX 5090 D v2. From ¥16,499." Source https://www.nvidia.cn/geforce/graphics-cards/50-series/rtx-5090-d-v2/) |
| 2026-09-28 | Channel price | deepseek-v4-flash channel price (official peak hours): 0.44/1.32 0.3/1.2 |
| 2026-09-28 | Channel price | deepseek-v4-flash channel price (official off-peak hours): 0.22/0.66 0.15/0.6 |
| 2026-09-28 | Channel price | SiliconFlow Kimi-K3 channel price: 3.0/15.0 2.7/13.5 |