{"slug": "show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator", "title": "Show HN: LLM API prices with full price history and a cloud vs. local calculator", "summary": "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).", "body_md": "# LLM API prices, tracked daily\n\nToken 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](https://tokenbarometer.com/methodology) for sourcing and confidence.\n\n## Frontier and strong tier, priced by the vendor's own API [(how tiers are set)](https://tokenbarometer.com/methodology#tiers)\n\nBadge shows where the price was read from.\n\n## Latest changes\n\n| Date | Model | Host | Kind | Change | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 2026-10-07 | [zhipu/glm-5-2](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/zhipu/glm-5-2) | inferencenet | • Price changed | 0.10 → 0.13 (+30.0%) | \n| 2026-10-07 | [thinkingmachines/inkling](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/thinkingmachines/inkling) | openrouter | ↑ Price increase | in $0.95 → $1.00 (+5.3%) | \n| 2026-10-07 | [moonshot/kimi-k3](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/moonshot/kimi-k3) | relace | ↓ Price cut | in $0.68 → $0.62 (−9.6%) | \n| 2026-10-07 | [deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash) | wafer | ↑ Price increase | in $0.0600 → $0.0900 (+50%) | \n| 2026-10-06 | [alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b) | openrouter | ↕ Mixed | $0.80 → $0.75 (−6.1%) · in ↓49.5% · out ↑26.4% | \n| 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 → $0.13 (−47%) | \n| 2026-10-06 | [mistral/mistral-nemo](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/mistral/mistral-nemo) | io-net | ↓ Price cut | $0.0533 → $0.0248 (−54%) | \n| 2026-10-06 | [meta/muse-glimmer-30b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/meta/muse-glimmer-30b) | openrouter | ↓ Price cut | $0.64 → $0.53 (−18%) | \n| 2026-10-06 | [openai/gpt-oss-120b](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/openai/gpt-oss-120b) | mancer-2 | ↓ Price cut | out $0.28 → $0.25 (−9.1%) | \n| 2026-10-05 | [nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning](https://tokenbarometer.com/model/nvidia/nemotron-3-5-lightning) | openrouter | ↕ Mixed | $0.0871 → $0.0850 (−2.4%) · in ↑0.8% · out ↓5.9% |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator", "canonical_source": "https://tokenbarometer.com", "published_at": "2026-10-07 11:36:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-07 11:49:30.613301+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Token Barometer", "zhipu/glm-5-2", "thinkingmachines/inkling", "moonshot/kimi-k3", "deepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash", "alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b", "google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "mistral/mistral-nemo"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-llm-api-prices-with-full-price-history-and-a-cloud-vs-local-calculator.jsonld"}}