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Intelligence 125 first arrived in Mar 2023 with GPT-4 (OpenAI), at $37.50 per million tokens. Today 130 models from 14 labs reach it, 56 of them open-weight. The cheapest, gpt-oss-20b, costs $0.058: 650× cheaper.
First reached
Mar 2023
GPT-4, OpenAI · launch price $37.50
Available today
130 models
from 14 labs · 56 open-weight · 179 have ever reached it
Cheapest today
$0.058
gpt-oss-20b · 650× cheaper than at debut
Open-weight lag
14.8 months
Qwen2-72B (Alibaba) was the first downloadable model here
| Model | Lab | Weights | ECI | Cheapest $ / M tokens | Via |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-20b2025-08 | OpenAI · US | open | 137.8 | $0.058 | DeepInfra |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B2025-01 | DeepSeek · China | open | 135.4 | $0.070 | Nscale |
| gpt-oss-120b2025-08 | OpenAI · US | open | 139.9 | $0.070 | DeepInfra |
| Phi-42024-12 | Microsoft Research · US | open | 130.4 | $0.087 | DeepInfra |
| Qwen2.5-32B2024-09 | Alibaba · China | open | 128.5 | $0.095 | Nebius |
| Gemma 3 27B2025-03 | Google DeepMind · US | open | 130.0 | $0.10 | DeepInfra |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 07312026-07 | DeepSeek · China | open | 154.5 | $0.10 | DeepInfra |
| Qwen3.5-9B2026-02 | Alibaba · China | open | 139.5 | $0.11 | DeepInfra |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash2026-04 | DeepSeek · China | open | 146.1 | $0.11 | DeepInfra |
| Qwen3-32B2025-04 | Alibaba · China | open | 138.5 | $0.12 | OVHcloud |
| Qwen3-14B2025-04 | Alibaba · China | open | 138.2 | $0.12 | Nebius |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025)2025-06 | Google DeepMind · US | closed | 133.9 | $0.13 | Oracle Cloud |
Showing the 12 cheapest of 130 available models.
Source: Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY), LiteLLM price map, launch pricing pages; blended 3:1 input to output per million tokens · data updated Oct 2, 2026howfastis.ai ↗