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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| Grok 4.20 Non ReasoningxAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2.50/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.20 ReasoningxAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.50/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
 Nova 2 LiteAmazonReasoningTool calling+1 | $2.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.30/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| Nova 2 Lite (EU)AmazonPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.50/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | 1M | $0.30/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
 ERNIE 5.1BaiduPrompt cachingReasoning | $2.54/1Mvia AIHubMix | 128K | $0.563/1M | $2.54/1M | 1468 | 1K | |
 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2.60/1Mvia Requesty | 1.05M | $1.30/1M | $2.60/1M | — | — | |
 Gemini 3.5 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.70/1Mvia Kie.ai | 1.05M | $0.45/1M | $2.70/1M | 1499 | — | |
 Step 5 PreviewStepFunOpen weightsPrompt caching+4 | $2.70/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1.05M | $1/1M | $2.70/1M | 1568 | — | |
| Qianfan Ocr FastBaiduVision | $2.74/1Mvia AIHubMix | 32K | $0.664/1M | $2.74/1M | — | — | |
 Llama-2-70b-chat-hfMetaLlama 2 | $2.75/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.65/1M | $2.75/1M | 1115 | — | |
| Meta Llama 3 70BMetaLlama 3 | $2.75/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.65/1M | $2.75/1M | — | — | |
| Step3StepFunApache 2.0 | $2.75/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1.10/1M | $2.75/1M | — | — | |
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeedMoonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $2.76/1Mvia Kenari | 262K | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | 1474 | 6K | |
 LLaDA2.1-flashInclusionaiApache 2.0Prompt caching | $2.85/1Mvia ZenMux | 32K | $0.28/1M | $2.85/1M | — | — | |
 Gemma 4 26B A4BorcarouterJSONReasoning+2 | $2.90/1Mvia OrcaRouter | 262K | $0.25/1M | $2.90/1M | — | 8K | |
 Apertus v1.5 70BSwiss Ai | $2.92/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.82/1M | $2.92/1M | — | — | |
 Ahm Phi 3.5 Mini InstructMicrosoftMIT | $3/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 0605GooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3/1Mvia Kie.ai | 1.05M | $0.38/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini 3.6 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $0.75/1M | $3.75/1M | 1538 | — | |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.75/1M | $3.75/1M | 1585 | 102K | |
| Gemini Flash LatestGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3/1Mvia OrcaRouter | — | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
| Hermes 4 405BNous ResearchLlama 3JSON+1 | $3/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $1/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
| Relace SearchRelaceJSONTool calling | $3/1Mvia OpenRouter | 256K | $1/1M | $3/1M | — | — | |
 GLM-5V-TurboZhipu AIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | 200K | $0.704/1M | $3.10/1M | 1438 | — | |
| GLM 5 TurboZhipu AIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.19/1Mvia ZenMux | 203K | $0.73/1M | $3.19/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4.5xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.20/1Mvia APIMart | 500K | $2/1M | $6/1M | 1553 | 3K | |
 MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-PreviewMiniMax | $3.20/1Mvia CometAPI | — | $0.80/1M | $3.20/1M | — | 5K | |
| Nova Pro (EU)AmazonPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.20/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | 300K | $0.80/1M | $3.20/1M | — | — | |
| Nova Pro 1.0AmazonTool callingVision | $3.20/1Mvia OpenRouter | 300K | $0.80/1M | $3.20/1M | — | — | |
 Qwen Max LongcontextAlibaba | $3.20/1Mvia LaoZhang API | — | $3.20/1M | $3.20/1M | — | — | |
| ERNIE 5.0BaiduPrompt cachingReasoning+1 | $3.29/1Mvia AIHubMix | 119K | $0.822/1M | $3.29/1M | — | 1K | |
| ERNIE 5.0 Thinking ExpBaiduPrompt cachingReasoning | $3.29/1Mvia AIHubMix | 119K | $0.822/1M | $3.29/1M | — | — | |
| ERNIE 5.0BaiduPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.29/1Mvia AIHubMix | 183K | $0.822/1M | $3.29/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.5 Omni Flash RealtimeAlibabaPrompt caching | $3.30/1Mvia Alibaba | 256K | $0.55/1M | $3.30/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON | $3.30/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $1.65/1M | $3.30/1M | — | — | |
 Doubao Seed 2.1 ProByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.33/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.667/1M | $3.33/1M | — | — | |
| Seed EvolvingByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.33/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.667/1M | $3.33/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3 Max PreviewAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.38/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.846/1M | $3.38/1M | 1439 | — | |
| GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.50/1Mvia Kie.ai | 128K | $0.44/1M | $3.50/1M | — | — | |
| O1 MiniOpenAI | $3.52/1Mvia APIMart | — | $0.88/1M | $3.52/1M | 1317 | — | |
| O4 MiniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.52/1Mvia APIMart | 200K | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | 1353 | — | |
| OpenAI o3 miniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.52/1Mvia APIMart | 200K | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | 1337 | — | |
| MiniMax-H3-Context-IRMiniMax | $3.60/1Mvia MiniMax | — | $0.90/1M | $3.60/1M | — | — | |
| OpenAI GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.60/1Mvia APIMart | 400K | $0.75/1M | $4.50/1M | 1412 | — | |
| Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AIPrompt cachingJSON | $3.71/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 256K | $0.894/1M | $3.71/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.7 MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $3.75/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 1M | $1.65/1M | $4.95/1M | 1515 | 3K | |
| GLM-5.2Zhipu AIPrompt cachingJSON | $3.85/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $1.10/1M | $3.85/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo 16kOpenAIJSONTool calling | $3.90/1Mvia APIYI | 16K | $3/1M | $3.90/1M | — | 12K | |
| Kimi K2.8 PreviewMoonshot AIPrompt cachingReasoning+1 | $3.91/1Mvia CrazyRouter | 1.05M | $0.942/1M | $3.91/1M | — | 5K | |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+3 | $3.95/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 131K | $0.98/1M | $3.95/1M | — | — |
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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