AI API prices in October 2026: from $0.50 to $50 for output
As of Oct. 6, 2026, the price of one million output tokens ranges from $0.50 (GPT-6 Luna) to $50 (GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1) across the 18 offers compared by ActuIA.
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