# What a million tokens has cost since the ChatGPT moment

> Every landmark LLM list price from the November 2022 ChatGPT launch to today: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral and xAI, per million tokens.

Source: https://tokenomy.ai/price-timeline
Last updated: 2026-09-21
Publisher: Tokenomy — FinOps for AI
License: free to quote with attribution and a link to the source URL.

Published list prices dated to the day each model was announced or re-priced, from 30 November 2022 onward — the long-run record behind today's daily price feed.

## Overview

Published list prices dated to the day each model was announced or re-priced, from 30 November 2022 onward — the long-run record behind today's daily price feed.

- GPT-3 at $20 per million tokens in November 2022
- GPT-4's $30/$60 frontier re-pricing in March 2023
- GPT-4o halving to $2.50/$10 within three months
- DeepSeek R1 resetting the reasoning floor at $0.55/$2.19

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