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

ModelPrompt /1MCompletion /1MContext
recursive/flint-v1.0:freefreefree262,144
minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:freefreefree1,000,000
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017$0.3$1.21,048,576
elorian/glimpse$0.6$3262,144
xingchen-agi/xing4.0-29b-a4b:freefreefree262,144
reflection/beam-1.0-501b-a23b$0.3$11,048,576
inception/mercury-3$0.1$0.351,000,000
moondream/moondream3-preview$0.3$2.532,000
moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b$0.3$2.532,000
meta/muse-spark-open$1.25$4.251,048,576
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl$0.15$0.51,048,576
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:freefreefree1,000,000
unbiased/pareto-26.10$0.8$3.21,048,576
~unbiased/pareto-latest$0.8$3.21,048,576
unbiased/pareto-26.9$2.5$7.5262,144

Cheapest models by prompt price

ModelPrompt /1MCompletion /1MContext
ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro$0.017$0.112131,000
openai/gpt-oss-20b$0.018$0.09131,072
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash$0.02$0.1211,048,576
~z-ai/glm-flash-latest$0.02$0.1211,048,576
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash$0.021$0.063262,144
openai/gpt-oss-20b:batch$0.024$0.112131,072
nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini$0.025$0.1262,144
openai/gpt-5-nano:batch$0.025$0.2400,000
meta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct$0.027$0.20160,000
mistralai/mistral-nemo$0.029$0.03131,072

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.

ModelBlended /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

ModelContextPrompt /1M
x-ai/grok-4.202,000,000$1.25
x-ai/grok-4.20-multi-agent2,000,000$1.25
meta-llama/llama-4-scout1,310,720$0.1
openai/gpt-5.41,050,000$2.5
openai/gpt-5.4-pro1,050,000$30
openai/gpt-5.4-pro:batch1,050,000$15
openai/gpt-5.4:batch1,050,000$1.25
openai/gpt-5.51,050,000$5
openai/gpt-5.5-pro1,050,000$30
openai/gpt-5.5-pro:batch1,050,000$15

New open-weight releases

ModelReleasedDownloadsLikes
RecursiveSI/flint2026-10-210269
InternScience/Sage-A1.5-Q4KM-GGUF2026-10-211032
ATH-MaaS/OvisOCR32026-10-21740
KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview2026-10-2125107
KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview-gguf2026-10-20926
unsloth/Ornith-1.5-122B-GGUF2026-10-207,75864
unsloth/flint-GGUF2026-10-201173
ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-122B-GGUF2026-10-207,69937
AtomicChat/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-Uncensored-GGUF2026-10-1913230
baselabs/mammoth-12026-10-192125
briaai/Fibo-2.0-edit-turbo2026-10-1931087
gradium/phonon-31m-en2026-10-193,59068
gradium/phonon-40m-multilingual2026-10-1934934
gradium/phonon-40m-en2026-10-1956254
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-GGUF2026-10-191,35960

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.