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6.5 $/1M
Cheapest
$0.01
Models
537
- Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systemsnow
- OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May3 hours ago
- How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs4 hours ago
- OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems4 hours ago
- Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data5 hours ago
- So you want to use OpenRouter?5 hours ago
- Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons5 hours ago
- Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize5 hours ago
- GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts6 hours ago
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Models Tracked
537
Providers Covered
79
Global Token Price Index
6.47
Model Efficiency Index
88.2
Live marketModels537Providers79Avg price$6.47/1MCheapest$0.01/1MMultimodal183Token Price Index6.47Data updated Sep 12, 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
58%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MINIMAX-M2.7 MiniMax | CN | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1000K |
| DEEPSEEK Novita AI | US | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1049K |
| QWEN3-CODER-FL Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | CN | $0.20 | $0.98 | 1000K |
| GEMINI-2.0-FLA Google | US | $0.08 | $0.30 | 1049K |
| GEMINI-2.5-FLA Google | US | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1049K |
| QWEN-PLUS-2025 Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | CN | $0.26 | $0.78 | 1000K |
| GPT-4.1-MINI-2 OpenAI | US | $0.40 | $1.60 | 1048K |
| GEMINI-3.1-FLA Google | US | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1049K |
| GROK-4-FAST xAI | US | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2000K |
| LLAMA-4-MAVERI Meta | US | $0.15 | $0.60 | 1049K |
| MINIMAX-01 MiniMax | CN | $0.20 | $1.10 | 1000K |
| MINIMAX-M2 MiniMax | CN | $0.26 | $1.00 | 1000K |
| GEMINI-2.5-FLA Google | US | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1049K |
| MINIMAX-M2.1 MiniMax | CN | $0.29 | $0.95 | 1000K |
Token Cost Calculator
DEMOCost / request
$0.001
Est. cost / month
$792.00
Cheapest for this workload: BAAI — $15.60/mo (save $776.40)
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 | MINIMAX-M2.7 MiniMax | $0.001 | 1000K | — | 96 |
| 02 | DEEPSEEK Novita AI | $0.000 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 03 | QWEN3-CODER-FL Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | $0.001 | 1000K | — | 96 |
| 04 | GEMINI-2.0-FLA Google | $0.000 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 05 | GEMINI-2.5-FLA Google | $0.000 | 1049K | — | 96 |
| 06 | QWEN-PLUS-2025 Alibaba Cloud · Qwen | $0.001 | 1000K | — | 96 |
| 07 | GPT-4.1-MINI-2 OpenAI | $0.002 | 1048K | — | 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· OpenAI· now
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Model Launches· Simon Willison· 3 hours ago
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
Model Launches· Hacker News· 4 hours ago
How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
Model Launches· Hacker News· 4 hours ago
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Pricing· TechCrunch· 5 hours ago
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Model Launches· Simon Willison· 5 hours ago
So you want to use OpenRouter?
Model Launches· Hacker News· 5 hours ago
Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons
Model Launches· MarkTechPost· 5 hours ago
Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize
Model Launches· Hacker News· 6 hours ago
GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts
Model Launches· Hacker News· 6 hours ago
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Model Launches· MarkTechPost· 6 hours ago
Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills
Open Source· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Model Launches· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Pricing· The Verge· 7 hours ago
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
Model Launches· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Model Launches· TechCrunch· 7 hours ago
Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
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 537 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 Sep 12, 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.