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Show HN: LLM API prices with full price history and a cloud vs. local calculator

Token Barometer now tracks list prices for 1,302 models across 3,592 hosted offerings, normalized to USD per 1M tokens, with full price history and a cloud-vs-local cost calculator refreshed daily from vendor pricing pages, official APIs and aggregators. The tracker's latest changes for 2026-10-05 through 2026-10-07 include a 50% increase for deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash on wafer (in $0.0600 to $0.0900), a 54% cut for mistral/mistral-nemo on io-net ($0.0533 to $0.0248), and a 30% rise for zhipu/glm-5-2 on inferencenet (0.10 to 0.13).

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Show HN: LLM API prices with full price history and a cloud vs. local calculator
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Token Barometer tracks list prices for 1,302 models across 3,592 hosted offerings, normalised to USD per 1M tokens, with full price history and a cloud-vs-local cost calculator. Data is refreshed daily from vendor pricing pages, official APIs and aggregators; see methodology for sourcing and confidence.

Frontier and strong tier, priced by the vendor's own API (how tiers are set) #

Badge shows where the price was read from.

Latest changes #

| Date | Model | Host | Kind | Change |

|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | [zhipu/glm-5-2](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/zhipu/glm-5-2) | inferencenet | β€’ Price changed | 0.10 β†’ 0.13 (+30.0%) | 
| 2026-10-07 | [thinkingmachines/inkling](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/thinkingmachines/inkling) | openrouter | ↑ Price increase | in $0.95 β†’ $1.00 (+5.3%) | 
| 2026-10-07 | [moonshot/kimi-k3](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/moonshot/kimi-k3) | relace | ↓ Price cut | in $0.68 β†’ $0.62 (βˆ’9.6%) | 
| 2026-10-07 | [deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash) | wafer | ↑ Price increase | in $0.0600 β†’ $0.0900 (+50%) | 
| 2026-10-06 | [alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b) | openrouter | ↕ Mixed | $0.80 β†’ $0.75 (βˆ’6.1%) Β· in ↓49.5% Β· out ↑26.4% | 
| 2026-10-06 | [google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it) | io-net | ↓ Price cut | $0.24 β†’ $0.13 (βˆ’47%) | 
| 2026-10-06 | [mistral/mistral-nemo](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/mistral/mistral-nemo) | io-net | ↓ Price cut | $0.0533 β†’ $0.0248 (βˆ’54%) | 
| 2026-10-06 | [meta/muse-glimmer-30b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/meta/muse-glimmer-30b) | openrouter | ↓ Price cut | $0.64 β†’ $0.53 (βˆ’18%) | 
| 2026-10-06 | [openai/gpt-oss-120b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/openai/gpt-oss-120b) | mancer-2 | ↓ Price cut | out $0.28 β†’ $0.25 (βˆ’9.1%) | 
| 2026-10-05 | [nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning) | openrouter | ↕ Mixed | $0.0871 β†’ $0.0850 (βˆ’2.4%) Β· in ↑0.8% Β· out ↓5.9% |
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