Prices are USD per 1M tokens, standard pay-as-you-go tier. Benchmark is LMArena Elo unless labeled otherwise. “—” means not publicly verified — never guessed.
ByteDance's Seedream 5.5 image API costs about ¥0.28 per 2K edit — under half of Seedream 5.0 Pro — with faster generation and more stable multi-round editing.
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Gemini 4 Argon is at intro pricing of $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens until Nov 30, 2026 — then $4 / $20. Budget now or plan for the step-up.
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DeepSeek made its V4 Pro 75% price reduction permanent: $0.435 input / $0.87 output per 1M tokens as the floor rate.
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Grok is free with limited daily queries on X and grok.com, and the API offers $25 in free credits for new users plus $150/mo through the data-sharing program.
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Free tier with limited GPT-5.1 access; Plus $20/mo.
Free tier with Sonnet access; Pro $20/mo.
Free with Google account; Advanced via Google One AI Premium.
Free with limits on X; SuperGrok $30/mo.
Free chat and API trial credits; V4 Flash from $0.14/$0.28 per 1M.
Free tier; Pro available in the EU and US.
Free with Meta account; Llama weights free to download.