
The Best AI Coding Models Right Now, By Job
Coding models run from $0.07 to $5.00 per million input tokens — a 70× spread. A shortlist by task, with verified prices and context lengths.

Coding models run from $0.07 to $5.00 per million input tokens — a 70× spread. A shortlist by task, with verified prices and context lengths.

A shortlist by task, not a ranking. Prices run from $0.002 to $0.357 per second — a 178× spread. What each tier is actually for.

Not a ranking — a shortlist by task. The cheapest model that will do each job, from $0.003 bulk generation to precision editing. Verified prices.

Resolution is the biggest lever on an AI video bill — and the cheapest provider changes depending on which tier you pick. Verified prices.

What one generated image actually costs, from $0.003 to $0.045 — across fal.ai, Replicate and Atlas Cloud, with the rounding trap that doubles bills.

What AI really costs for 10,000 product images, a chat feature at 50,000 messages a month, and 200 short videos — with the unit maths shown.

The same AI model is often listed at three different prices. Here is what actually varies — billing units, resolution tiers, run-time billing and discounts.

Multimodal quer dizer duas coisas. Um modelo que lê vários tipos de entrada não é o mesmo que os produz — e quase nenhum faz as duas coisas.

O comprimento de contexto é um orçamento, não uma funcionalidade. O que conta para ele, quais são os limites reais hoje, e o que acontece quando o espaço acaba.

Os tokens explicados em linguagem simples: o que conta como um, porque é que um chat de 10 turnos fatura 22 vezes o texto que escreveste, e porque é que os tokens de saída são os mais caros.