API prices fell ~80% in a year — see what re-shopping models saves.
With prices down ~80% year over year, re-shopping models quarterly is one of the highest-ROI things an AI product can do. Plan the switch cost on the model migration cost calculator and find the floor on the cheapest LLM API guide.
Free LLM price-drop savings calculator — old vs new per-token price and your volume to the money re-shopping models saves.
Roughly 80% between early 2025 and early 2026. Frontier-quality output that cost $10–15 per million tokens is now available for a few dollars, and budget models have fallen below $0.20 per million input tokens. Staying on a year-old model often means paying several times the current rate for the same quality.
Quarterly at least. New models and price cuts land constantly, so re-benchmark your actual prompts against current options every few months. Often a newer or smaller model matches your quality bar at a fraction of the cost — the switch is a pure margin win.