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Yi Lightning API Pricing

Yi Lightning is 01.AI's low-cost text model. The official 01.AI pricing row is a unified 0.99 CNY/M tokens, stored here as $0.147/M input and $0.147/M output at the project's dated CNY/USD reference rate. Checked by hand against platform.lingyiwanwu.com.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.147/M
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Output - per 1M tokens
$0.147/M
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Cached input
Not published
Cache no public row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.147/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Yi Lightning API cost calculator.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Yi Lightning rates. Tweak workload split, then share the URL to share the calculation.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Yi Lightning cost on real workloads.

SUPPORT

Customer support turn

$0.00074/turn
4k in / 1k out~135,777 units/$100
CLASSIFY

Bulk ticket classification

$0.00309/batch
20k in / 1k out~32,327 units/$100
TRANSLATE

Short document translation

$0.00236/doc
8k in / 8k out~42,430 units/$100
ROUTING

Intent router call

$0.00044/call
2k in / 1k out~226,295 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Yi Lightning token counter and cost.

What's a token →
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 434
Words 65
Tokens (estimated) 86 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00001 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00001 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Yi Lightning vs similar models.

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Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Yi Lightning Current $0.147 $0.147 $0.147 agentic 92/8 16K Low-cost Chinese text routing
Hunyuan TurboS $0.119 $0.298 $0.133 legacy · −10% documented elsewhere Tencent Cloud budget chat
Baichuan4 Air $0.146 $0.146 $0.146 same 32K Low-cost Chinese text workloads
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30 cache $0.03 $2.50 $0.272 +85% 1M Global multimodal low-cost work
MiniMax M3.1 Flash $0.15 cache $0.015 $0.60 $0.0842 −43% 1M MiniMax agent loops

Yi Lightning API pricing FAQ.

Practical Yi Lightning pricing questions, with source prices separated from workload assumptions.

Q · 01 What is the Yi Lightning API price? +
01.AI's pricing row is a unified 0.99 CNY/M tokens. AI//COST converts that to $0.1473/M input and $0.1473/M output using the reference rate of 6.7209 CNY/USD.
Q · 02 Why are input and output the same? +
The official Yi Lightning row is presented as a unified token price rather than separate prompt and completion prices. The page therefore stores the same USD value for input and output.
Q · 03 Does Yi Lightning have prompt caching? +
No public cached-input price is listed for Yi Lightning. The effective blend uses the normal $0.1473/M token price for all input tokens.
Q · 04 What context window does it support? +
The current snapshot and model directories track Yi Lightning at 16K context. That makes it a budget short-context model rather than a 1M-context archive option.
Q · 05 When was this checked? +
The 01.AI docs pricing section was opened on May 23, 2026. The source URL is stored exactly as the official docs route used for this page.
Q · 06 Are regional or enterprise discounts published? +
No public enterprise ladder is stored for this row. Standard users should plan around the published 0.99 CNY/M unified price unless they have a private 01.AI agreement.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against platform.lingyiwanwu.com · Last verified Jul 11, 2026
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