Pricing

How billing works

You pay per token. Three rates apply to each request: input for the tokens you send, cached for input tokens served from a prefix cache, and output for the tokens the model generates. Claude and OpenAI models add a fourth, cache write, for input tokens written into the prompt cache; see Cache writes. Every figure in the table below is in USD per 1M tokens. Caching is automatic: Valar matches shared prompt prefixes for you and charges the lower cached rate on the tokens that hit. Prompt Caching explains how to raise your hit rate, but nothing is required to get the cached rate. The rate you pay also depends on the completion window you request. Faster scheduling carries a higher rate: the on-demand Now window costs the most, Priority about 25% less, Standard about 50% less, and Flex the least. The table prices out the windows available for each model; coverage varies, and you can mix windows per request. Completion Windows explains the trade-offs.

Window coverage differs by model, and we keep adding models and widening window support. If a model or window you want isn’t shown, get in touch.

You can also read these rates in code: GET /v1/models returns a pricing array on every model, one entry per window. Those figures are resolved for your organization, so if you’re on negotiated rates the API quotes yours rather than the table below.

Cache writes

When a request writes part of its prompt into the prompt cache, those tokens are counted separately from input and billed at the model’s cache-write rate:

Models	Cache-write rate
Claude	1.25x the input rate for the default 5-minute cache, 2x the input rate for a write cached with the 1-hour TTL
OpenAI	1.25x the input rate
All other models	No cache-write charge

The written tokens are reported apart from input tokens, for example as cache_creation_input_tokens on the Anthropic Messages API and cache_write_tokens in the Usage API. A later request that reuses the cached prefix pays the lower cached rate on those tokens. Organizations on negotiated rates may have a different cache-write rate.

Use pricing from an agent

Read Pricing for agents for a compact Markdown table of the same public rates. Your agent can retrieve it through the docs MCP server, or you can open the Markdown export directly. No API key is required. Both tables are generated from the same public model catalog and update when the docs are published. They show list prices, not organization-specific rates.

Rate table

USDper 1M tokens

Model	Window	Input	Cached	Output
DeepSeek V4 Pro `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro`	Now	1.056	0.0352	3.168
	Priority	0.792	0.0264	2.376
	Standard	0.528	0.0176	1.584
	Flex	0.3696	0.01232	1.1088
Nemotron Ultra `nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4`	Now	0.5	0.1	2.2
	Priority	0.375	0.075	1.65
	Standard	0.25	0.05	1.1
	Flex	0.175	0.035	0.77
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash`	Now	0.255	0.0255	1.02
	Priority	0.19125	0.019125	0.765
	Standard	0.1275	0.01275	0.51
	Flex	0.08925	0.008925	0.357
Kimi K2.7 Code `moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7`	Now	0.75	0.15	3.5
	Priority	0.6	0.12	2.8
	Standard	0.375	0.075	1.75
	Flex	0.2625	0.0525	1.225
Kimi-K3 `moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	Now	2.25	0.225	11.25
	Priority	1.6875	0.16875	8.4375
	Standard	1.125	0.1125	5.625
	Flex	0.7875	0.07875	3.9375
Kimi-K3 Fast `moonshotai/Kimi-K3-fast`	Now	3.375	0.225	16.875
	Priority	2.53125	0.16875	12.65625
	Standard	1.6875	0.1125	8.4375
	Flex	1.18125	0.07875	5.90625
GLM-5.2 `zai-org/GLM-5.2`	Now	0.98	0.112	3.4
	Priority	0.784	0.0896	2.72
	Standard	0.49	0.091	1.54
	Flex	0.343	0.064	1.078
GLM-5.2 Fast `zai-org/GLM-5.2-fast`	Now	1.68	0.168	5.28
	Priority	1.26	0.126	3.96
	Standard	0.84	0.084	2.64
	Flex	0.588	0.0588	1.848
GLM-5.3 `zai-org/GLM-5.3`	Now	1.12	0.208	3.52
	Priority	0.84	0.156	2.64
	Standard	0.56	0.104	1.76
	Flex	0.392	0.0728	1.232
GLM-5.3 Fast `zai-org/GLM-5.3-fast`	Now	1.785	0.3315	5.61
	Priority	1.33875	0.248625	4.2075
	Standard	0.8925	0.16575	2.805
	Flex	0.62475	0.116025	1.9635
GLM-5.3 Flash `zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash`	Now	0.12	0.0232	0.4
	Priority	0.09	0.0174	0.3
	Standard	0.06	0.0116	0.2
	Flex	0.042	0.00812	0.14
gpt-oss-120b `openai/gpt-oss-120b`	Now	0.06	0.03	0.4
	Priority	0.045	0.023	0.3
	Standard	0.04	0.02	0.3
	Flex	0.024	0.012	0.155
Qwen3.5 27B `Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B`	Now	0.27	0.054	2.2
	Priority	0.203	0.041	1.65
	Standard	0.135	0.027	1.1
	Flex	0.0945	0.0189	0.77
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B `Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B`	Now	0.45	0.09	1.35
	Priority	0.338	0.068	1.013
	Standard	0.25	0.05	0.75
	Flex	0.175	0.035	0.525
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B `Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B`	Now	0.225	0.045	0.9
	Priority	0.169	0.0338	0.675
	Standard	0.13	0.026	0.52
	Flex	0.0925	0.0185	0.37
Qwen3.8-Max `qwen/qwen3.8-max`	Now	2	0.25	6
	Priority	2	0.25	6
	Standard	1	0.125	3
	Flex	0.7	0.0875	2.1
Gemma 4 31B IT `google/gemma-4-31B-it`	Now	0.14	0.06	0.4
	Priority	0.105	0.045	0.3
	Standard	0.07	0.03	0.2
	Flex	0.049	0.021	0.14
Gemma 4 26B A4B `google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it`	Now	0.072	0.0144	0.216
	Priority	0.054	0.0108	0.162
	Standard	0.036	0.0072	0.108
	Flex	0.0252	0.00504	0.0756
MiniMax M3 `MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3`	Now	0.2	0.06	1.2
	Priority	0.15	0.045	0.9
	Standard	0.1	0.03	0.6
	Flex	0.07	0.021	0.42

For each model’s capabilities (e.g., image input and reasoning support), see Models.

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