Underclassic / model board

Public list prices and open-weight rows. Verified 2026-08-19. Blank $ cells mean there is no single official API price.

Model board (20) (USD per 1M tokens; verified 2026-08-19; blended = (3*input + 1*output) / 4; -- = open/self-host or no single public list)

#ModelOrgCCWeightsTierInOutBlend
1 Claude Fable 5 Anthropic US closed
undisclosed
flagship $10.00 $50.00 $20.00
Base input/output MTok list.
2 Claude Opus 5 Anthropic US closed
undisclosed
flagship $5.00 $25.00 $10.00
3 Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic US closed
undisclosed
workhorse $2.00 $10.00 $4.00
Introductory list through 2026-08-31; standard later $3/$15 on vendor page history.
4 Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic US closed
undisclosed
fast $1.00 $5.00 $2.00
5 GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI US closed
undisclosed
flagship $5.00 $30.00 $11.25
Short-context standard tier.
6 GPT-5.5 OpenAI US closed
undisclosed
flagship $5.00 $30.00 $11.25
Short-context (<272K) list.
7 GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI US closed
undisclosed
workhorse $2.00 $12.00 $4.50
8 GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI US closed
undisclosed
fast $0.75 $4.50 $1.69
9 GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI US closed
undisclosed
commodity $0.20 $1.20 $0.45
10 Grok 4.6 xAI US closed
undisclosed
flagship $2.00 $6.00 $3.00
Prompt <200k list tier.
11 Grok 4.3 xAI US closed
undisclosed
workhorse $1.25 $2.50 $1.56
Prompt <200k list tier.
12 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek CN open
~284B total / ~13B active (MoE)
commodity $0.44 $1.32 $0.66
Peak cache-miss list. Off-peak is half; cache-hit far lower. MIT weights.
13 DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek CN open
~1.6T total / ~49B active (MoE)
workhorse $1.32 $3.96 $1.98
Peak cache-miss list. Off-peak half.
14 Gemini 3.1 Pro Google US closed
undisclosed
workhorse $2.00 $12.00 $4.50
Vendor page is JS-rendered; treat as check-against-source. Long-context tiers higher.
15 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba CN open
397B total / 17B active
open-flagship -- -- --
Apache-class open weights. API $ varies by hoster -- not a single list price.
16 Llama 4 Maverick Meta US open
~400B total / ~17B active
open-flagship -- -- --
Community license. Hoster list rates vary; EU multimodal caveats apply.
17 Llama 4 Scout Meta US open
~109B total / ~17B active
open-longctx -- -- --
Long-context open path. Hoster $ varies.
18 Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral FR closed
undisclosed
workhorse -- -- --
EU frontier multimodal. Confirm current API list in Mistral console -- page not scraped to a stable public table here.
19 Mistral Small 4 Mistral FR open
~119B total / ~6B active (MoE)
open-efficient -- -- --
Hybrid instruct/reason/code. Hoster $ varies.
20 Gemma 4 31B Google US open
31B
local-desk -- -- --
Desk-side class open weights. Self-host cost is silicon+power, not a metered list.

These are public list prices from vendor pages where linked. Blank cells mean open weights or hoster menus with no single official API price. This table is not a claim about how much electricity or chips cost the lab. Useful signal: how far cheap API tiers sit from flagship list rates, and which models ship weights you can run yourself.

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