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6.4 $/1M
Cheapest
$0.01
Models
535
- Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI4 hours ago
- Quoting Greg Brockman5 hours ago
- AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions5 hours ago
- datasette-apps 0.2a06 hours ago
- AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says6 hours ago
- Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science7 hours ago
- Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps7 hours ago
- YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’7 hours ago
- AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs8 hours ago
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Models Tracked
535
Providers Covered
79
Global Token Price Index
6.42
Model Efficiency Index
88.2
Live marketModels535Providers79Avg price$6.42/1MCheapest$0.01/1MMultimodal182Token Price Index6.42Data updated Aug 2, 2026
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00Why HotON
AI is becoming a global market.
HotON.ai helps you read it.
Models are changing. Prices are moving. Compute costs are shifting. HotON.ai turns fragmented AI signals into structured market intelligence.
01The AI Market Dashboard
Today's view of the global AI market
From model prices and usage trends to availability, latency and market heat — the whole AI economy on one screen.
Top Rated
Arena EloModelProviderEloOut / 1M
Cheapest Models
Blended $/1MLargest Context
K tokensMost Multimodal
ModalitiesTop Providers
ModelsCategory Distribution
Share of catalogText
59%
Multimodal
29%
Reasoning
8%
Code
5%
02Model Prices
Track the price of intelligence
AI pricing is no longer simple. HotON.ai helps builders, enterprises and investors understand how model costs move across providers and categories.
Input Token PriceOutput Token PriceContext Window CostMultimodal PricingEnterprise API Pricing
Model Price Board
$ / 1M tokens| Model | Region | Input | Output | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GROK-4.1-FAST xAI | US | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2000K |
| GROK-4-FAST xAI | US | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2000K |
| GEMINI-2.0-FLA Google | US | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1049K |
| GROK-4-1-FAST- xAI | US | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2000K |
| DEEPSEEK Novita AI | US | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1049K |
| LLAMA-4-MAVERI Meta | US | $0.15 | $0.60 | 1049K |
| GROK-4-FAST-RE xAI | US | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2000K |
| GEMINI-2.5-FLA Google | US | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1049K |
| MINIMAX-M3 MiniMax | CN | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1000K |
| GEMINI-2.5-FLA Google | US | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1049K |
| GEMINI-2.0-FLA Google | US | $0.08 | $0.30 | 1049K |
| QWEN3.5-FLASH- Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | CN | $0.07 | $0.26 | 1000K |
| QWEN-PLUS-2025 Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | CN | $0.26 | $0.78 | 1000K |
| GEMINI-3.1-FLA Google | US | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1049K |
Token Cost Calculator
DEMOCost / request
$0.001
Est. cost / month
$420.00
Cheapest for this workload: BAAI — $15.60/mo (save $404.40)
03AI Market Indexes
AI indexes for a new computing economy
Structured benchmarks for AI model prices, efficiency, inference cost and market momentum. News gets copied — indexes don't.
04Efficiency Ranking
Price is only one part of the story.
Efficiency tells the truth.
The cheapest model is not always the most efficient. HotON.ai compares models by total task cost, success rate, speed, stability and output quality.
| # | Model | Cost / Task | Context | Arena Elo | Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | GROK-4.1-FAST xAI | $0.001 | 2000K | — | 96 |
| 02 | GROK-4-FAST xAI | $0.001 | 2000K | — | 96 |
| 03 | GEMINI-2.0-FLA Google | $0.000 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 04 | GROK-4-1-FAST- xAI | $0.001 | 2000K | — | 96 |
| 05 | DEEPSEEK Novita AI | $0.000 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 06 | LLAMA-4-MAVERI Meta | $0.001 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 07 | GROK-4-FAST-RE xAI | $0.001 | 2000K | — | 96 |
Find the model that actually delivers the best result for the cost. See the full price-vs-intelligence frontier →
05Inference Cost Map
Where is AI cheaper to run?
AI costs are shaped by more than model prices. Region, compute supply, energy cost, latency and availability all matter.
Global Compute Network
Provider regionsIllustrative map of provider regions — not a live feed.
Regional Cost Signals
Compare inference cost patterns across global regions.
Compute Availability
Understand where AI infrastructure capacity is becoming more attractive.
Energy-Aware AI
Track how energy conditions may influence compute and inference pricing.
Time-Based Cost Windows
Discover when certain regions may become more cost-efficient for AI workloads.
HotON.ai helps the market understand the geography of AI cost.
06AI Market Radar
The signals that actually matter
Model launches, pricing changes, infrastructure shifts, policy updates, funding events and market movements — filtered from the noise.
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Model Launches· Hacker News· 4 hours ago
Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI
Model Launches· Simon Willison· 5 hours ago
Quoting Greg Brockman
Model Launches· Hacker News· 5 hours ago
AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Model Launches· Simon Willison· 6 hours ago
datasette-apps 0.2a0
Model Launches· Hacker News· 6 hours ago
AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says
Model Launches· Simon Willison· 7 hours ago
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Policy· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps
Model Launches· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Pricing· MarkTechPost· 8 hours ago
AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs
Model Launches· Hacker News· 8 hours ago
Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders
Infrastructure· MarkTechPost· 9 hours ago
Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking
Model Launches· The Verge· 9 hours ago
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
Model Launches· Hacker News· 9 hours ago
Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth
Model Launches· TechCrunch· 10 hours ago
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
Model Launches· Hacker News· 10 hours ago
I Fired My AI Assitant
Model Launches· The Decoder· 11 hours ago
AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings
HotON.ai Radar filters noise from the AI market and highlights the changes that may affect cost, access, capability and competition.
View all →07Market Media
Video, visuals and briefings — every format, one feed
HotON.ai delivers market intelligence as video, visuals and text. Choose how you consume the AI economy — the platform handles every format.
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Video
Weekly AI Market Pulse
A 90-second video recap of the week's biggest moves in AI prices, models and infrastructure.
Watch recap
VisualInfographic
Global token price heatmap
Where input and output costs are rising and falling, at a glance.
Text Brief
Inference costs fall as new capacity comes online
Regional compute supply loosened this week, pushing the Inference Cost Index to a new monthly low across three major regions…
Video reports
Showreels, recaps and explainers with adaptive playback.
Visual & images
Charts, infographics and covers, responsive and crisp.
Text & briefings
Structured articles, summaries and data notes.
08HotON Reports
Reports built for AI decision makers
Structured intelligence on model pricing, AI infrastructure, inference cost, market heat and global AI supply-chain trends.
Briefings
Subscribe to HotON Reports
AI market briefings, pricing reports and index updates — in your inbox.
09HotON Data API
AI market data for builders and institutions
Access structured AI market data through HotON.ai APIs, feeds and custom intelligence products.
Model pricing feedsToken cost dataModel metadataIndex dataMarket heat rankingsLatency & availabilityReport feedsCustom intelligence
- Developers building AI tools
- Enterprises optimizing AI costs
- Model providers tracking position
- Investors following AI infrastructure
- Analysts researching the AI economy
api.hoton.ai
> GET /v1/models/OPUS-4.8/price { "symbol": "OPUS-4.8", "provider": "Anthropic", "input_per_1m": 6.00, "output_per_1m": 22.50, "context_k": 500, "efficiency": 96, "arena_elo": 1432, "modalities": ["text", "image"] }
Frequently asked questions
What is HotON.ai?+
HotON.ai is an AI market-intelligence platform tracking current prices (updated daily), token costs, quality (Arena Elo) and version price trends for 535 AI models across 79 providers worldwide.
Where does the pricing data come from, and how often is it updated?+
Prices come from each provider's official pricing (via the TestKey catalog), cross-checked against OpenRouter, and refreshed daily. Every model page shows the price's source and 'as of' date.
Is the data real?+
Yes. Model prices, context windows, modalities and Arena Elo scores are real and sourced; efficiency and cost-per-task are computed from those real inputs and labeled as such.
What is the cheapest AI model right now?+
As of Aug 2, 2026, the lowest blended price we track is $0.01 per 1M tokens. See the full 'cheapest models' ranking for the current list.
Which AI model is rated highest?+
By LMArena human-preference Elo, the top-rated model we track is claude-opus-4.6 (1505). See the quality ranking for the full leaderboard.
How is the efficiency / value score calculated?+
It is a composite of a model's real price and context window, normalized to 0-100 so cheaper, larger-context models score higher. Full details are on our Methodology page.
HotON.ai
Understand the AI market before everyone else.
HotON.ai gives you the data, indexes and intelligence to understand where the AI economy is moving next.