190 …AI Monetization…Foundation Models = Developer API Fees Driving Monetization OpenAI ChatGPT, xAI Grok, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude & Perplexity Developer API Pricing – 5/25, per Companies OpenAI ChatGPT From $0.40 (GPT-4.1 nano) to $40 (o3) per 1MM Output Tokens xAI Grok $0.50 (grok-3-mini-beta) to $25 (grok-3-fast) per 1MM Output Tokens Google Gemini $0.15 (1.5 Flash-8B) to $15 (2.5 Pro Preview) per 1MM Output Tokens1 1. Gemini prices by prompt size. Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B = $0.15 per 1MM tokens for prompts ≤128K tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview = $15 per 1MM tokens for prompts >200K tokens. Source: OpenAI, X, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity websites (5/25) Anthropic Claude From $1.25 (Claude 3 Haiku) to $75 (Claude 3 Opus) per 1MM Output Tokens Perplexity $1 (Sonar) to $15 (Sonar Pro) per 1MM Output Tokens AI – New Entrants = Rapidly Laying Groundwork