Cloud and AI prices,
read from the source.
Every list price that a cloud or AI bill is built from, read off the provider’s own page and stamped with when. What moved, who moved it, and what it was before.
Latest move1 Sept
-75%Anthropic cut the cached input price on Claude Fable 5.1.
What a million tokens costs, by model.
The dearest output token on the board is GPT-6 Astra at $50.00 and the cheapest is Llama 4 Scout at $0.59, a spread of 85 times.
| Model | Output / 1M | 90 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OA GPT-6 Astra OpenAI · flagship new 3 Sept | $50.00 | new | new 3 Sept | |
| A Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic · flagship cached $1.00 → $0.25 | $50.00 | -75% | cached $1.00 → $0.25 | |
| G Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google · flagship | $12.00 | 0% | ||
| M Mistral Large 3 Mistral | $1.50 | 0% | ||
| DS DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek output $0.87 → $1.98 | $1.98 | +128% | output $0.87 → $1.98 | |
| X Grok 4.6 xAI new 12 Aug | $6.00 | new | new 12 Aug | |
| L Llama 4 Maverick Llama via Together AI | $0.85 | 0% |
US dollars per million tokens, standard tier, as each provider publishes it. Grok and DeepSeek charge more for long prompts or at peak hours; the row shows the standard or off-peak rate.
What an hour of hardware and a unit of warehouse cost.
GPU hours, on demand
| Instance | Per hour |
|---|---|
| Az NVIDIA H100 NVL Azure · Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5 · 1 GPU East US · provider price list | $6.98/ h |
| Az NVIDIA A100 80GB Azure · Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 · 1 GPU East US · provider price list | $3.67/ h |
| Az General purpose Azure · Standard_D4s_v5 East US · provider price list | $0.192/ h |
| AW NVIDIA H100 80GB AWS · p5.48xlarge · 8 GPU us-east-1 · provider price list | $55.04/ h |
| AW NVIDIA L4 AWS · g6.xlarge · 1 GPU us-east-1 · provider price list | $0.805/ h |
| AW General purpose AWS · m6i.xlarge us-east-1 · provider price list | $0.192/ h |
| G NVIDIA H100 80GB GCP · a3-highgpu-8g · 8 GPU us-central1 · provider price list | $87.83/ h |
| G NVIDIA L4 GCP · g2-standard-4 · 1 GPU us-central1 · provider price list | $0.707/ h |
| G General purpose GCP · n2-standard-4 us-central1 · provider price list | $0.194/ h |
Data platforms and storage
| Platform | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| S Snowflake Snowflake credit, Standard edition, on-demand provider price list | $2.00 | USD per credit |
| D Databricks DBU price, All-Purpose Compute, Premium tier provider price list | $0.55 | USD per DBU |
| M Microsoft Fabric F64 capacity (64 Capacity Units), pay-as-you-go provider price list | $11.52 | USD per hour (64 CU x $0.18/CU-hour) |
| A Azure Blob Hot tier, LRS, general purpose v2, first 51,200 GB/month provider price list | $0.0208 | USD per GB per month |
| S S3 S3 Standard storage, first 50 TB/month provider price list | $0.0230 | USD per GB per month |
Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake and Databricks are read from the provider’s own price list.
The latest price changes, newest first.
3 Sept
newOpenAI · Launched GPT-6 Astra, its new top-tier flagship model, at $10 input / $50 output per 1M tokens
2 Sept
newGoogle · Launched Gemini 3.8 Flash at introductory pricing of $0.75 input / $3.75 output per 1M tokens, scheduled to double to $1.50/$7.50 on 2027-01-01
1 Sept
-75%Anthropic · Launched Claude Fable 5.1 at the same $10/$50 per 1M input/output price as Fable 5, but cut the prompt-cache read price 75% from $1.00 to $0.25 per 1M tokens
31 Aug
-33%Anthropic · Cancelled a scheduled price rise for Claude Sonnet 5, making the $2/$10 per 1M introductory rate permanent instead of raising it to $3/$15 on 2026-09-01
26 Aug
newMeta Llama (via Groq) · Groq moved its two most popular Llama models off self-serve pricing entirely, pulling them from the public rate card.