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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
$0.43
LIPI-Frontier · ≤50 Elo off #1
GPT-4-class
$0.065
LIPI-1350 · Elo ≥ 1350
Workhorse
$0.015
LIPI-1250 · Elo ≥ 1250
Who is serving
LIPI-1250 · ELO ≥ 1250LIPI-1300 · ELO ≥ 1300LIPI-1350 · ELO ≥ 1350LIPI-1400 · ELO ≥ 1400LIPI-1450 · ELO ≥ 1450LIPI-FRONTIER · ≤50 ELO OFF #1
$/1M tokens, blended 3:1 · log scale · daily
$0.01$0.1$1$10Jul 27Jul 28Jul 29Jul 30Jul 31Aug 1Aug 2Aug 3LIPI-1250 · $0.015 — Ling-2.6-flashLIPI-1300 · $0.015 — Ling-2.6-flashLIPI-1350 · $0.065 — gpt-oss-120bLIPI-1400 · $0.1 — Hy3 previewLIPI-1450 · $0.16 — Gemma 4 31BLIPI-Frontier · $0.43 — MiMo-V2.5-ProLIPI V1 · LLMAP.AI/INSIGHTS/LIPI · DATA AS OF 2026-08-03
LIPI-1250 · ELO ≥ 1250LIPI-1300 · ELO ≥ 1300LIPI-1350 · ELO ≥ 1350LIPI-1400 · ELO ≥ 1400LIPI-1450 · ELO ≥ 1450LIPI-FRONTIER · ≤50 ELO OFF #1
$/1M tokens, blended 3:1 · log scale · daily
$0.01$0.1$1$10Jul 27Jul 28Jul 29Jul 30Jul 31Aug 1Aug 2Aug 3LIPI-1250 · $0.015 — Ling-2.6-flashLIPI-1300 · $0.015 — Ling-2.6-flashLIPI-1350 · $0.065 — gpt-oss-120bLIPI-1400 · $0.1 — Hy3 previewLIPI-1450 · $0.16 — Gemma 4 31BLIPI-Frontier · $0.43 — MiMo-V2.5-ProLIPI V1 · LLMAP.AI/INSIGHTS/LIPI · DATA AS OF 2026-08-03

The cheapest open-weight model clearing each bar — the bars themselves are still set by the best model anyone has.

LIPI-1250 · ELO ≥ 1250LIPI-1300 · ELO ≥ 1300LIPI-1350 · ELO ≥ 1350LIPI-1400 · ELO ≥ 1400LIPI-1450 · ELO ≥ 1450LIPI-FRONTIER · ≤50 ELO OFF #1
$/1M tokens, blended 3:1 · log scale · daily
$0.1$1$10Jul 27Jul 28Jul 29Jul 30Jul 31Aug 1Aug 2Aug 3LIPI-1250 · $0.1 — Nova Lite 1.0LIPI-1300 · $0.11 — Qwen3.5-FlashLIPI-1350 · $0.11 — Qwen3.5-FlashLIPI-1400 · $0.28 — Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewLIPI-1450 · $0.56 — Qwen3.7 PlusLIPI-Frontier · $0.56 — Qwen3.7 PlusLIPI V1 · LLMAP.AI/INSIGHTS/LIPI · DATA AS OF 2026-08-03

The cheapest proprietary model clearing each bar — what the closed labs charge for the same level of intelligence, wherever their models are sold.

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. A falling line means that level of intelligence got cheaper to buy. A sudden step means a repricing, or a new model taking over as the cheapest way to reach the bar — the biggest moves are listed below.

What this says right now

derived from the series above
Direction

Every tier is cheaper than at the start of this window — the workhorse floor fell fastest, down 82% in 7 days. Frontier intelligence costs 6.7× 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 proprietary offer costs 1.3× more at the frontier and 7× more at the workhorse tier.

Workhorse$0.084 → $0.015/Mdown 82%in 7 daysfloor: Ling-2.6-flash · open weights
Capable tier$0.084 → $0.015/Mdown 82%in 7 daysfloor: Ling-2.6-flash · open weights
GPT-4-class$0.084 → $0.065/Mdown 23%in 7 daysfloor: gpt-oss-120b · open weights
Strong reasoner$0.11 → $0.1/Mdown 12%in 7 daysfloor: Hy3 preview · open weights
Near-frontier$0.18 → $0.16/Mdown 12%in 7 daysfloor: Gemma 4 31B · open weights
Frontier$0.6 → $0.43/Mdown 27%in 7 daysfloor: MiMo-V2.5-Pro · open weights

Changes cover the 7 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

past 7 days
Jul 29OpenAI raised GPT-5.5 Pro pricing by 100%
Jul 29OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 50%
Jul 29OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna Pro pricing by 50%
Jul 29Moonshot AI cut Kimi K2.7 Code pricing by 50%
Jul 29Minimax cut MiniMax M2.5 pricing by 50%

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

TierBarTodayCheapest via
LIPI-1250 · workhorseElo ≥ 1250$0.015/MLing-2.6-flash on OpenRouter
LIPI-1300 · capable tierElo ≥ 1300$0.015/MLing-2.6-flash on OpenRouter
LIPI-1350 · GPT-4-classElo ≥ 1350$0.065/Mgpt-oss-120b on CoreWeave
LIPI-1400 · strong reasonerElo ≥ 1400$0.1/MHy3 preview on OpenRouter
LIPI-1450 · near-frontierElo ≥ 1450$0.16/MGemma 4 31B on CoreWeave
LIPI-Frontier · ≤50 Elo off #1Elo ≥ 1459$0.43/MMiMo-V2.5-Pro on GMICloud
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 2026-08-03
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