How to read a token price page

Most pages quote a price per million tokens. A few quote per thousand. Convert everything to one unit before you compare. A price per thousand looks small beside a price per million until you multiply.

Check the currency as well, and whether tax is included.

Find the input price and the output price. If only one figure is shown, look for the other before you go further. Then look for a cached input price. If the page has tiers, where the price rises for very long prompts, note where the tier begins.

Read the full model name and version. Makers release dated updates, and hosts may serve one or another under a similar name. Check any note on precision. A lower-precision version of a model is priced lower for a reason.

Find the context window and the output limit for this host. Then find the rate limits for a new account. A price you cannot use at your volume is not your price. These are often on a separate page from the prices.

Some APIs bill extra for image input, for tools the host runs for you, or for a faster service tier. Some offer a lower price for batch work that can wait. Read the footnotes. They are where the page says what the headline leaves out.

Token prices are cut and raised often, and a page may not say when it last changed. Write down the day you read it. The tables on this site print the date beside every price for that reason.

Runcrate’s 125 models are listed with an input price and an output price per million tokens and a context length, behind one OpenAI-compatible API. Runcrate serves DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.147 per million input tokens.

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