LLM API Price Trends — The Race to Zero
Track how LLM API prices are evolving across quality tiers. The chart below shows the cheapest available blended price per million tokens over the last 90 days.
How fast are LLM API prices falling?
The cheapest LLM API currently costs Free per million tokens (Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507). Prices have been dropping steadily as providers compete on cost and new efficient models launch.
90-Day Price Frontier
Shows the cheapest blended price per million tokens within each quality tier over time.
Current Tier Leaders
good
Free
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
budget
$0.0063
Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
frontier
$0.068
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
strong
$0.100
accounts/fireworks/models/llama-v3p1-70b-instruct-1b
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. LLM API prices have been falling consistently across all quality tiers. Competition between providers like DeepInfra, Together AI, Groq, and OpenRouter drives prices lower as new models launch and inference infrastructure improves.