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Price of a fixed capability over time

A GPT-4-class answer costs roughly 100× less than it did at launch — and frontier-class is following the same slope.

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Price of capability — GPT-4-class

USD per 1M output tokens · log scale

Illustrative data

Log-scale price of GPT-4-class capability from 2023-03-01 to 2026-09-01.

$0.1$1$10$1002023202420262023-03-01: $60 — GPT-4 launch2023-07-01: $602023-11-01: $30 — GPT-4 Turbo2024-05-01: $152024-08-01: $7.52024-12-01: $32025-04-01: $1.52025-09-01: $0.82026-03-01: $0.42026-09-01: $0.25

Sources: OpenAI API pricing (archive) · Anthropic pricing · Artificial Analysis

Methodology & sources

Illustrative composite of public list prices for models that roughly matched each capability tier at the time. Not a quality-matched hedonic index.

Text summary: Log-scale line chart of list API price for a fixed capability tier (GPT-4-class vs frontier-class) from 2023 through 2026. Download CSV as a data fallback.

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