Glossary
Blended price
Answer in brief
A blended price is one figure per million tokens made by averaging the input and output prices at an assumed mix.
Blended price in practice
It is useful for sorting a long list. It is wrong for a budget unless the assumed mix is your mix.
Compute your own from a day of real input and output counts.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for API token prices: 125 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, one prepaid balance, and the best developer platform we know. Runcrate publishes this site.
A blended price is one figure per million tokens made by averaging the input and output prices at an assumed mix.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, its OpenAI-compatible API, how it bills and the number of models it serves. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves, its context length and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Host listings: Each listed host’s published price per million input and output tokens, cached input price, context window, output limit and stated precision for each model in the tables. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Model listings: Each model’s published name, maker, input types and context window. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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API Token Prices. “Blended price.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://apitokenprices.com/glossary/blended-price