# Model Price & Release Tracker — 2026-10-22

_Monthly intelligence for teams running inference in production_

Generated 2026-10-22 02:55 UTC from 468 priced models across 232 model families, plus 156 open-weight releases.

7 router/synthetic endpoints with no list price are excluded from the tables below.

> **Baseline issue.** This is the first snapshot, so it establishes the reference point. Price movements appear from the next issue onward, when the tracker has two points to compare.
## What changed this month

No prior snapshot to compare against yet.

### Newly listed models

| Model | Prompt /1M | Completion /1M | Context |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| `recursive/flint-v1.0:free` | free | free | 262,144 |
| `minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free` | free | free | 1,000,000 |
| `deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017` | $0.3 | $1.2 | 1,048,576 |
| `elorian/glimpse` | $0.6 | $3 | 262,144 |
| `xingchen-agi/xing4.0-29b-a4b:free` | free | free | 262,144 |
| `reflection/beam-1.0-501b-a23b` | $0.3 | $1 | 1,048,576 |
| `inception/mercury-3` | $0.1 | $0.35 | 1,000,000 |
| `moondream/moondream3-preview` | $0.3 | $2.5 | 32,000 |
| `moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b` | $0.3 | $2.5 | 32,000 |
| `meta/muse-spark-open` | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1,048,576 |
| `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl` | $0.15 | $0.5 | 1,048,576 |
| `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free` | free | free | 1,000,000 |
| `unbiased/pareto-26.10` | $0.8 | $3.2 | 1,048,576 |
| `~unbiased/pareto-latest` | $0.8 | $3.2 | 1,048,576 |
| `unbiased/pareto-26.9` | $2.5 | $7.5 | 262,144 |

## Cheapest models by prompt price

| Model | Prompt /1M | Completion /1M | Context |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| `ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro` | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131,000 |
| `openai/gpt-oss-20b` | $0.018 | $0.09 | 131,072 |
| `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash` | $0.02 | $0.121 | 1,048,576 |
| `~z-ai/glm-flash-latest` | $0.02 | $0.121 | 1,048,576 |
| `inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash` | $0.021 | $0.063 | 262,144 |
| `openai/gpt-oss-20b:batch` | $0.024 | $0.112 | 131,072 |
| `nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini` | $0.025 | $0.1 | 262,144 |
| `openai/gpt-5-nano:batch` | $0.025 | $0.2 | 400,000 |
| `meta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct` | $0.027 | $0.201 | 60,000 |
| `mistralai/mistral-nemo` | $0.029 | $0.03 | 131,072 |

## Cheapest models for a mixed 3:1 workload

Cost of 1M tokens where 750k are prompt and 250k are completion — the shape of most chat and RAG traffic.

| Model | Blended /1M |
|---|---:|
| `mistralai/mistral-nemo` | $0.029 |
| `scaledown/extract` | $0.03 |
| `scaledown/summarize` | $0.03 |
| `inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash` | $0.032 |
| `openai/gpt-oss-20b` | $0.036 |
| `ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro` | $0.041 |
| `google/gemma-3-4b-it` | $0.043 |
| `sao10k/l3-lunaris-8b` | $0.043 |
| `nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini` | $0.044 |
| `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash` | $0.045 |

## Largest context windows

| Model | Context | Prompt /1M |
|---|---:|---:|
| `x-ai/grok-4.20` | 2,000,000 | $1.25 |
| `x-ai/grok-4.20-multi-agent` | 2,000,000 | $1.25 |
| `meta-llama/llama-4-scout` | 1,310,720 | $0.1 |
| `openai/gpt-5.4` | 1,050,000 | $2.5 |
| `openai/gpt-5.4-pro` | 1,050,000 | $30 |
| `openai/gpt-5.4-pro:batch` | 1,050,000 | $15 |
| `openai/gpt-5.4:batch` | 1,050,000 | $1.25 |
| `openai/gpt-5.5` | 1,050,000 | $5 |
| `openai/gpt-5.5-pro` | 1,050,000 | $30 |
| `openai/gpt-5.5-pro:batch` | 1,050,000 | $15 |

## New open-weight releases

| Model | Released | Downloads | Likes |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| `RecursiveSI/flint` | 2026-10-21 | 0 | 269 |
| `InternScience/Sage-A1.5-Q4_K_M-GGUF` | 2026-10-21 | 10 | 32 |
| `ATH-MaaS/OvisOCR3` | 2026-10-21 | 7 | 40 |
| `KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview` | 2026-10-21 | 25 | 107 |
| `KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview-gguf` | 2026-10-20 | 9 | 26 |
| `unsloth/Ornith-1.5-122B-GGUF` | 2026-10-20 | 7,758 | 64 |
| `unsloth/flint-GGUF` | 2026-10-20 | 11 | 73 |
| `ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-122B-GGUF` | 2026-10-20 | 7,699 | 37 |
| `AtomicChat/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-Uncensored-GGUF` | 2026-10-19 | 132 | 30 |
| `baselabs/mammoth-1` | 2026-10-19 | 21 | 25 |
| `briaai/Fibo-2.0-edit-turbo` | 2026-10-19 | 310 | 87 |
| `gradium/phonon-31m-en` | 2026-10-19 | 3,590 | 68 |
| `gradium/phonon-40m-multilingual` | 2026-10-19 | 349 | 34 |
| `gradium/phonon-40m-en` | 2026-10-19 | 562 | 54 |
| `XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-GGUF` | 2026-10-19 | 1,359 | 60 |

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### How to read this

Prompt and completion prices are per million tokens, taken from the OpenRouter model catalogue. Open-weight entries are Hugging Face releases with real download traction, so the list is filtered to things people actually use rather than every upload.

A price cut on a model you already depend on is the highest-signal event here: it is a direct margin change, and the window to renegotiate or re-route traffic is usually weeks, not months. A new open-weight release matters if it is cheap enough to self-host at your volume — at that point the per-token price is a GPU-hour question instead of an API question.

_Prices captured 2026-10-22. Verify against vendor pricing before committing._