Hunterson Standard Inference, Europe, 5 November 2026
Thursday 5 November 2026, published 14:37 UTC
Input
$0.1924
Output
$0.8241
per million tokens, input and output
Input up $0.0021, or 1.10%; output up $0.0387, or 4.93%, since 4 November
Hunterson Standard Inference, Europe, 5 November 2026: input $0.1924, output $0.8241 per million tokens. https://hunterson.org/standard/2026-11-05/
- Blended
- $0.229616 input tokens to 1 output token
- Contributors
- 15 of 16providers tested
- Model
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flashthe reference, as the lab published it
- Bought
- 14:05 to 14:36 UTCthrough OpenRouter, from London
- Before discounts
- $0.2483 input, $1.0188 outputdiscounts take off 19.11% of the output price
The price of AI inference, measured by buying it. Each weekday between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC, from London, Hunterson buys the same test job from every provider serving DeepSeek V4.1-Flash through one marketplace, and keeps the receipts. The figures are the averages of what the middle half of qualifying providers charged, per million input and per million output tokens. Standard covers models that use 30 billion active parameters or fewer for each token. A token is about three quarters of a word.
How the price is assessedThe providers behind this figureThe evidence
The leading challenger
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 has the most providers after the reference. Assessed in the same way today: input $0.1833, output $0.7433 per million tokens, from 12 of 18 contributors; its output price is 0.90 times the reference's. Shown for information: it is not an assessment of the grade, and it does not change the figures above.
History
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The providers behind this figure
16 providers were tested. 15 passed every test and contributed; the price is the average of the middle 9, leaving out the lowest 3 and the highest 3. 1 was excluded, for the reason shown.
| Provider | Input | Output | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| MorphLeft out: lowest quarter | $0.0220 | $0.4000 | Left out of the averageLowest quarter of prices |
| DeepInfraLeft out: lowest quarter | $0.1400 | $0.4200 | Left out of the averageLowest quarter of prices |
| BaiduLeft out: lowest quarter | $0.1299 | $0.5196 | Left out of the averageLowest quarter of prices |
| AtlasCloudIn the average | $0.1350 | $0.5400 | In the average |
| StreamLakeIn the average | $0.1470 | $0.5880 | In the average |
| InferenceNetIn the average | $0.1030 | $0.6000 | In the average |
| CoreWeaveIn the average | $0.1300 | $0.6500 | In the average |
| GMICloudIn the average | $0.1800 | $0.7200 | In the average |
| Mancer 2In the average | $0.1498 | $0.7490 | In the average |
| MakoraIn the average | $0.2600 | $1.1700 | In the average |
| CrusoeIn the average | $0.2900 | $1.2000 | In the average |
| NebiusIn the average | $0.3000 | $1.2000 | In the average |
| ParasailLeft out: highest quarter | $0.3000 | $1.2000 | Left out of the averageHighest quarter of prices |
| SiliconFlowLeft out: highest quarter | $0.3000 | $1.2000 | Left out of the averageHighest quarter of prices |
| VeniceLeft out: highest quarter | $0.3000 | $1.2000 | Left out of the averageHighest quarter of prices |
| NovitaExcluded: Correct: no answer, only reasoning text | ExcludedCorrect: no answer, only reasoning text |
Prices are what each provider's receipts show was paid, in US dollars per million tokens.
Recent assessments
| Date | Input | Output | Blended | Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 November 2026 | $0.1924 | $0.8241 | $0.2296 | 15 of 16 |
| 4 November 2026 | $0.1903 | $0.7854 | $0.2253 | 11 of 16 |
| 3 November 2026 | $0.2246 | $0.9283 | $0.2660 | 11 of 16 |