Which AI Platform Should I Use?

GPT-5

Fast

Exceptional

Approximately $1.25 input / $10 output per 1M tokens

GPT-5 Mini

Very Fast

Very High

$0.25 input / $2 output per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4.1

Moderate

Exceptional

Approximately $15 input / $75 output per 1M tokens

Claude Sonnet 4

Fast

Exceptional

$3 input / $15 output per 1M tokens

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Fast

Exceptional

Approximately $1.25 input / $10 output per 1M tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Very Fast

Very High

Approximately $0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens

Grok 4

Fast

Exceptional

Approximately $3 input / $15 output per 1M tokens

DeepSeek R1

Moderate

Exceptional

Approximately $0.55 input / $2.19 output per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3

Very Fast

Very High

Approximately $0.14 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens

Llama 4 Maverick

Fast

Very High

Open weights; API price varies by provider, or pay your own hosting costs

Llama 4 Scout

Very Fast

High

Open weights; API price varies by provider, or pay your own hosting costs

Mistral Medium 3

Very Fast

Very High

Approximately $0.40 input / $2 output per 1M tokens

Mistral Large

Fast

Very High

Approximately $2 input / $6 output per 1M tokens

Qwen 3 235B

Fast

Exceptional

Open weights; commonly around $0.20–$1 input and $0.80–$4 output per 1M tokens through hosted providers

Qwen 3 32B

Very Fast

Very High

Open weights; commonly around $0.10–$0.30 input and $0.30–$1 output per 1M tokens through hosted providers

Cohere Command A

Fast

Very High

Approximately $2.50 input / $10 output per 1M tokens

Microsoft Phi-4

Very Fast

High

Open weights; free to download, with hosting or provider costs

Google Gemma 3 27B

Very Fast

High

Open weights; free to download, with hosting or provider costs

Mixtral 8x22B

Fast

High

Open weights; API price varies by provider, or pay your own hosting costs