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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 GLM-5.2Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.80/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1M | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 1604 | 109K | |
 Morph V3 LargeMorphJSON | $1.90/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.90/1M | $1.90/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-4o Mini Realtime Preview 2024 1217OpenAI | $1.92/1Mvia APIMart | — | $0.48/1M | $1.92/1M | — | — | |
 Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | — | $2.50/1M | 1435 | — | |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | — | $2.50/1M | 1417 | 11K | |
 CommandCohere | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1/1M | $2/1M | — | 72K | |
| Command Light NightlyCohere | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Command NightlyCohereApache 2.0 | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
 Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512-int4-AutoRoundMistralPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $2/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | 262K | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
 Doubao 1.5 Thinking Vision Pro 250428ByteDance | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 ProByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
| GLM 4 Vision PlusZhipu AI | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| GLM Zero PreviewZhipu AI | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.20 (Reasoning)xAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.3xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | 1397 | — | |
| Grok-4.20-Multi-AgentxAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsJSON+1 | $2/1Mvia Helicone | 262K | $0.50/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Medium 3MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | 1370 | — | |
| Mistral Medium 3.1MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | 1424 | — | |
| Moonshot V1 8KMoonshot AI | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Moonshot V1 8K Vision PreviewMoonshot AI | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
 Nemotron-SEA-LION-v4.8-120B-A12BAI SingaporeMIT | $2/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.50/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
 Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON | $2/1Mvia APIYI | 256K | $0.40/1M | $2.20/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.6 27BAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+3 | $2/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.60/1M | $3.60/1M | — | 4K | |
 Step 2 16KStepFun | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Large 4MistralPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.09/1Mvia Opper | 1.05M | $1.36/1M | $4.18/1M | 1543 | 122K | |
| Qwen3-Coder-PlusAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $2.16/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.05M | $0.54/1M | $2.16/1M | — | — | |
 Ling 1tInclusionaiMITJSON+1 | $2.19/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.548/1M | $2.19/1M | — | — | |
| Ring 1tInclusionaiMITJSON+2 | $2.19/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.548/1M | $2.19/1M | — | — | |
 DeepSeek R1 ZeroDeepSeekMIT | $2.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $2.20/1M | $2.20/1M | — | — | |
 MiniMax M1MiniMaxReasoningTool calling | $2.20/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.55/1M | $2.20/1M | 1343 | — | |
| MiniMax M1MiniMaxApache 2.0 | $2.20/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.55/1M | $2.20/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Medium (latest)MistralJSONReasoning+1 | $2.20/1Mvia Requesty | 131K | $0.44/1M | $2.20/1M | — | — | |
 Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNVIDIAReasoningTool calling | $2.20/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1M | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | 1K | |
| Grok 3 Mini FastxAI | $2.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.33/1M | $2.20/1M | — | — | |
 Apertus 70BSwiss Ai | $2.24/1Mvia Cortecs | — | $1.40/1M | $2.24/1M | — | — | |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Code PreviewByteDancePrompt cachingReasoning+2 | $2.24/1Mvia ZenMux | 256K | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
 Hy4 previewTencentApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $2.25/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.05M | $0.751/1M | $2.25/1M | 1631 | — | |
| Qwen3 235B A22b Thinking 2507AlibabaApache 2.0JSON+2 | $2.30/1Mvia Hugging Face | 262K | $0.23/1M | $2.30/1M | — | — | |
| Claude InstantAnthropic | $2.40/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $3.26/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini 3 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.40/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $0.30/1M | $2.40/1M | 1466 | 207K | |
| GPT Realtime 2.1 MiniOpenAI | $2.40/1Mvia APIYI | — | $0.60/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-Audio MiniOpenAIJSONTool calling | $2.40/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.60/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — | |
| Kimi K2.6Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $2.40/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | 1509 | 11K | |
| Qwen2p5 Math 72B InstructAlibabaOpen weights · with terms | $2.40/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.80/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — | |
 Macaron V1 VentiMindlabPrompt cachingReasoning | $2.48/1Mvia Novita AI | 1M | $0.825/1M | $2.48/1M | — | — | |
| Doubao 1.5 Thinking ProByteDance | $2.48/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.62/1M | $2.48/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 0520GooglePrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.05M | $0.30/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.20xAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.50/1Mvia APIYI | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | 15K |
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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