What AI models cost, and where you can actually buy them
Every figure here is one seller's own published price for one unit of output, with the date we last read it. Pick what you are generating.
Video
Clips, priced per second or per generation. The board compares them at one clip.
5 models tracked
$0.2288 / 10s / 720p / t2v / no audio cheapest of the 3 comparable models
- Seedance 2.5 ByteDance
- Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance
Images
Stills, priced per image by resolution tier, or by the token going in and out.
3 models tracked
Quality grades differ by vendor, so no single figure
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image Google
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Google
Music & Audio
Speech, music and sound effects. Sellers bill these by the character, by the second and by the track, so the category lists rather than ranks.
3 models tracked
No shared unit across these, so no single figure
- Chirp 3: HD voices Google
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Google
Text
Tokens, priced separately going in and coming out, with cache and batch rates beside them.
4 models tracked
$0.20 / reference workload: 100K input + 20K output tokens cheapest of the 4 models we track
- Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
- Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic