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LLMap Intelligence Price Index (LIPI)

The lowest price at which anyone can buy a given level of intelligence, daily, from our append-only price history across every tracked provider.

Frontier

$0.12

≤50 Elo off #1

GPT-4-class

$0.065

Elo ≥ 1350

Workhorse

$0.015

Elo ≥ 1250

What this says right now

derived · as of Oct 1

The market moved down across the board over 65 days, with the workhorse tier down 82% and the frontier down 80%, so a given budget now reaches much further up the range. The frontier premium over the GPT-4-class floor fell from 7.1 times to 1.8 times, meaning the tiers have moved closer together. Every floor is now set by an open-weight model, so buyers should look first at open-weight options when stretching a budget.

read from Sep 30 — the series below runs to Oct 1

Direction

Every tier is cheaper than at the start of this window — the workhorse floor fell fastest, down 82% in 66 days. Frontier intelligence costs 1.8× the GPT-4-class floor, down from 7.1× at the start.

Who serves it

Every price floor on this index — workhorse to frontier — is currently set by a model with open weights. To match the open floor's price at the same bar, the cheapest closed-model offer costs 6.3× more at the frontier and 4.6× more at the workhorse tier.

Workhorse$0.084 → $0.015/Mdown 82%in 66 daysfloor: Ling-2.6-flash · open weights

Capable tier$0.084 → $0.015/Mdown 82%in 66 daysfloor: Ling-2.6-flash · open weights · also the workhorse floor

GPT-4-class$0.084 → $0.065/Mdown 23%in 66 daysfloor: gpt-oss-120b · open weights

Strong reasoner$0.11 → $0.086/Mdown 24%in 66 daysfloor: Gemma 4 26B A4B · open weights

Near-frontier$0.18 → $0.12/Mdown 35%in 66 daysfloor: GLM 5.3 Flash · open weights

Frontier$0.60 → $0.12/Mdown 80%in 66 daysfloor: GLM 5.3 Flash · open weights · also the near-frontier floor

6 bars, 4 prices today: Ling-2.6-flash clears both the workhorse and capable tier bars; GLM 5.3 Flash clears both the near-frontier and frontier bars. Where one model clears two bars, nothing cheaper sits between them — so read these as 4 observations, not 6. The histories still differ: each bar reached today's price by its own route.

Changes cover the 66 days of price history the index holds so far. What moved is above; why the market moved is your call to make.

The repricings behind it

largest moves · past 7 days

Sep 30Phala cut Qwen3.6 27B cache-read pricing by 80%

Sep 30Phala cut Qwen3.5-27B cache-read pricing by 80%

Sep 27Relace raised GLM 5.3 Flash input pricing by 75%

Sep 30GLM 5.2 cut across 3 hosts, by up to 72% at Decart (mxfp4) (input)

Sep 28Kimi K3 cut across 2 hosts, by up to 65% at Morph (input)

From our price history — a lab repricing its own list comes first, then the largest moves. The full feed is on News.

Cheapest price today · pick a tier to chart it

moves over the 66 days the index holds

Frontier floor

The cheapest price anyone charged each day for a model within 50 Elo of the top-rated model that day. Per million tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output.

Also held the floorGemini 3.5 Flash Lite Aug 6–9 · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Sep 26–29 · GLM 5.3 Flash Sep 30–Oct 1

Cheapest price that day A different model became the cheapest Set by: the model holding the floor, day by day Point at any day to read it

How to read it

Each line is the lowest price anyone charged that day for a model clearing that tier's intelligence bar, per million tokens, counting three input tokens for every output token. A falling line means that level of intelligence got cheaper to buy. A step is a repricing, or a new model taking over as the cheapest way to reach the bar; the largest repricings are listed above.

Tier	Bar	Today	Cheapest via
Workhorse	Elo ≥ 1250	$0.015/M	Ling-2.6-flash on OpenRouter
Capable tier	Elo ≥ 1300	$0.015/M	Ling-2.6-flash on OpenRouter
GPT-4-class	Elo ≥ 1350	$0.065/M	gpt-oss-120b on CoreWeave
Strong reasoner	Elo ≥ 1400	$0.086/M	Gemma 4 26B A4B on Darkbloom
Near-frontier	Elo ≥ 1450	$0.12/M	GLM 5.3 Flash on DeepInfra
Frontier	≤50 Elo off #1 · Elo ≥ 1459 today	$0.12/M	GLM 5.3 Flash on DeepInfra

LIPI v1 · blended price, 3:1 input:output (Epoch convention) · cheapest eligible public offer per day among models clearing the tier bar · fixed Elo bars + moving Frontier tier (within 50 Elo of #1) · eligibility: paid public offers listed ≥ 7 days (first sightings at tracking start grandfathered) · intelligence: LMArena text Elo · computed daily from LLMap's append-only offer history · current frontier bar: Elo 1459

Cite thisSource: LLMap Intelligence Price Index (LIPI v1), llmap.ai/insights/lipi, as of 2026-10-01

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