Cheapest LLM API
738 text models sorted by the lowest output price per 1M tokens across every provider, with their quality score beside it.
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 Llama3 Groq 8B 8192 Tool Use PreviewMeta | $0.00019/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.00019/1M | $0.00019/1M | — | — | |
| Llama3 Groq 70B 8192 Tool Use PreviewMeta | $0.00089/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.00089/1M | $0.00089/1M | — | — | |
 DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BDeepSeekMIT | $0.01/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.01/1M | $0.01/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BDeepSeekMIT | $0.01/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.01/1M | $0.01/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BDeepSeekMIT | $0.01/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.01/1M | $0.01/1M | — | 3K | |
| DeepSeek R1t ChimeraDeepSeek | $0.02/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek-OCRDeepSeekMITVision | $0.02/1Mvia AIHubMix | 8K | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — | |
 PaddleOCR VLPaddlepaddleApache 2.0 | $0.02/1Mvia Novita AI | — | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — | |
 GLM OCRZhipu AIMITVision | $0.028/1Mvia AIHubMix | 32K | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | — | 10K | |
| DeepSeek OCR 2DeepSeekApache 2.0 | $0.03/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | — | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.03/1Mvia UnoRouter | 1.05M | $0.007/1M | $0.03/1M | 1664 | 138K | |
 Gemma 2 9B ItGoogleGemma | $0.03/1Mvia Helicone | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | 1207 | — | |
| GLM ASR 2512Zhipu AI | $0.03/1Mvia Z.AI | — | — | $0.03/1M | — | — | |
 Mistral NemoMistralJSONTool calling | $0.03/1Mvia Deep Infra | 131K | $0.029/1M | $0.03/1M | — | 4K | |
 Qwen2.5-Coder-7BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.03/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | — | 6K | |
| Qwen2p5 Coder 3BAlibabaNon-commercial | $0.03/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3-4BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.03/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | — | 10K | |
 Ling-2.6-flashInclusionaiMITPrompt caching+1 | $0.039/1Mvia AI/ML API | 262K | $0.013/1M | $0.039/1M | — | — | |
| Gemma 3 4B ITGoogleGemmaPrompt caching+2 | $0.05/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.04/1M | $0.05/1M | 1291 | 4K | |
| GLM 4 9B 0414Zhipu AIMIT | $0.05/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
| GLM Z1 9B 0414Zhipu AIMIT | $0.05/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
| SL3-8B-Lunaris-v1Sao10K | $0.05/1Mvia Deep Infra | 8K | $0.04/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
| SLlama 3 8B LunarisSao10KJSON | $0.05/1Mvia OpenRouter | 8K | $0.04/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
| Llama 3.1 8B InstructMetaLlama 3.1JSON+1 | $0.05/1Mvia Helicone | 131K | $0.02/1M | $0.05/1M | 1187 | 3K | |
| Llama 3.2 3B InstructMetaLlama 3.2JSON | $0.05/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 131K | $0.03/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen2.5-7B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.05/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 33K | $0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | — | 3K | |
| SSao10K Stheno 8bSao10KCC BY-NC 4.0Reasoning | $0.05/1Mvia Hugging Face | 8K | $0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — | |
 ERNIE 4.5 0.3bBaiduJSONTool calling+1 | $0.054/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.014/1M | $0.054/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral 7B InstructMistral | $0.059/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | — | $0.029/1M | $0.059/1M | 1023 | 8K | |
| Qwen3 8BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.06/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.06/1M | $0.06/1M | — | 12K | |
| Ling 3.0 Flash (free)InclusionaiMITPrompt caching+2 | $0.063/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.021/1M | $0.063/1M | — | 6K | |
 Baichuan M2 32BBaichuan | $0.07/1Mvia Novita AI | 131K | $0.07/1M | $0.07/1M | — | — | |
| GLM 3 TurboZhipu AI | $0.07/1Mvia CrazyRouter | — | $0.07/1M | $0.07/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.5 4BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.07/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.04/1M | $0.07/1M | — | 7K | |
| Qwen-VL OCRAlibaba | $0.072/1Mvia Alibaba | — | $0.043/1M | $0.072/1M | — | — | |
| Gemma 4 E2B ITGoogleApache 2.0 | $0.08/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.04/1M | $0.08/1M | — | 10K | |
| GLM 4 32B 0414Zhipu AIMIT | $0.08/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.08/1M | $0.08/1M | — | 1K | |
| GLM Z1 32B 0414Zhipu AIMIT | $0.08/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.08/1M | $0.08/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Small 3MistralApache 2.0JSON | $0.08/1Mvia Deep Infra | 33K | $0.05/1M | $0.08/1M | 1234 | — | |
| Qwen2-7B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.08/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.08/1M | $0.08/1M | — | 9K | |
| Qwen3.5 0.8BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.08/1Mvia Prime Inference | — | $0.04/1M | $0.08/1M | — | 3K | |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BDeepSeekMIT | $0.09/1Mvia Novita AI | — | $0.06/1M | $0.09/1M | — | — | |
| GPT OSS 20BOpenAIApache 2.0JSON+2 | $0.09/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.018/1M | $0.09/1M | 1287 | 12K | |
| GMythoMax L2 13BGrypheJSON | $0.09/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | 8K | $0.09/1M | $0.09/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen TurboAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $0.09/1Mvia Ofox | 1M | $0.043/1M | $0.09/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B fastAlibaba | $0.09/1Mvia Helicone | — | $0.03/1M | $0.09/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.7 FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.091/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $0.028/1M | $0.11/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen2p5 14BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.097/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.097/1M | $0.097/1M | — | — | |
 Coding MiniMax M2.7 HighspeedMiniMaxPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | 205K | $0.10/1M | $0.10/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek Prover V2 671BDeepSeekOpen weights | $0.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.10/1M | $0.10/1M | — | — |
Frequently asked questions
The first rows of this list, by lowest output price. The cheapest models are usually small or older; check the score column and the chart below for the best quality at a given price.
Yes: several providers offer free, rate-limited tiers. They are listed on the free AI models page; this page counts paid prices only.
The labelled points in the chart: each one has the best LMArena score among models at its price or less. Pick the cheapest of them that is good enough for your task.
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