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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| Granite 4.2 8BIBMApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.25/1Mvia Deep Infra | 131K | $0.06/1M | $0.25/1M | 1319 | — | |
| Granite-4.0-H-SmallIBMApache 2.0 | $0.25/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.06/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — | |
 Llama3 8B InstructMetaLlama 3 | $0.25/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.05/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — | |
| Meta Llama 3 8BMetaLlama 3 | $0.25/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.05/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — | |
 Nex-N2.5-ProNex AgiPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.25/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.075/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — | |
 Qwen3 32BAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+2 | $0.25/1Mvia Hugging Face | 131K | $0.08/1M | $0.25/1M | 1340 | 2K | |
| Qwen3.5 FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.26/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.029/1M | $0.287/1M | 1397 | — | |
| Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B InstructAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.27/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 262K | $0.07/1M | $0.27/1M | — | 3K | |
 ERNIE 4.5BaiduJSONTool calling+1 | $0.272/1Mvia AIHubMix | 160K | $0.068/1M | $0.272/1M | — | — | |
 Ling Mini 2.0InclusionaiMITJSON+1 | $0.272/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.068/1M | $0.272/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.278/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 262K | $0.069/1M | $0.278/1M | — | 6K | |
 DeepSeek ChatDeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.28/1Mvia Requesty | 164K | $0.14/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek ReasonerDeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.28/1Mvia Requesty | 1.05M | $0.14/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
 Doubao Lite 128KByteDance | $0.28/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.14/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
| Doubao-Seed-1.8ByteDancePrompt cachingReasoning+2 | $0.28/1Mvia ZenMux | 256K | $0.11/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3BBaiduApache 2.0 | $0.28/1Mvia Helicone | — | $0.07/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen LongAlibaba | $0.28/1Mvia APIYI | — | $0.07/1M | $0.28/1M | — | — | |
| Seed 1.6ByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.285/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.114/1M | $0.285/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen Plus CharacterAlibaba | $0.287/1Mvia Alibaba | — | $0.115/1M | $0.287/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.5 FlashAlibabaJSON | $0.287/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.029/1M | $0.287/1M | — | 36K | |
| Qwen3 30B A3BAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+2 | $0.29/1Mvia Helicone | 41K | $0.08/1M | $0.29/1M | — | 5K | |
 GLM-4.5-AirZhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.291/1Mvia ZenMux | 131K | $0.20/1M | $1.10/1M | 1384 | 3K | |
 Step 3.5 FlashStepFunApache 2.0Reasoning+1 | $0.292/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 256K | $0.097/1M | $0.292/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.294/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1.05M | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | 47K | |
| Doubao Seed CharacterByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.295/1Mvia ZenMux | 256K | $0.118/1M | $0.295/1M | — | — | |
 Hy-MT2 Plus (Tencent Cloud)TencentJSON | $0.295/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 8K | $0.074/1M | $0.295/1M | — | — | |
| Hy-MT2-30B-A3BTencentApache 2.0JSON | $0.295/1Mvia OpenRouter | 8K | $0.074/1M | $0.295/1M | — | — | |
| Hy-MT2-7BTencentApache 2.0JSON | $0.295/1Mvia OpenRouter | 8K | $0.074/1M | $0.295/1M | — | — | |
| Tencent Hy-MT2-ProTencentJSON | $0.295/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 8K | $0.074/1M | $0.295/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507AlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.30/1Mvia Cortecs | 262K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.30/1Mvia Kie.ai | 1M | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | 1585 | 94K | |
 Gemini-2.0-Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.30/1Mvia Vertex | — | $0.075/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Gemma 4GoogleApache 2.0JSON+3 | $0.30/1Mvia FastRouter | 262K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | 6K | |
| Gemma 4 12B InstructGoogleApache 2.0 | $0.30/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | 2K | |
 MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomiMIT | $0.30/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | 256K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | 1411 | — | |
 Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506)Mistral | $0.30/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | — | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
 Phi 4 MiniMicrosoftMIT | $0.30/1Mvia Azure | 128K | $0.075/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.7 PlusAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.30/1Mvia CrazyRouter | 1M | $0.276/1M | $1.10/1M | 1455 | 2K | |
| Seed 1.6 FlashByteDanceJSONReasoning+2 | $0.30/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.075/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Step 3.5 Flash 2603StepFunPrompt cachingTool calling | $0.30/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 256K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507MistralApache 2.0Prompt caching+2 | $0.30/1Mvia OpenRouter | 33K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Small 3MistralVision | $0.303/1Mvia Poe | 128K | $0.101/1M | $0.303/1M | — | — | |
| Deepseek 3.2DeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.308/1Mvia APIMart | 164K | $0.206/1M | $0.308/1M | 1425 | — | |
| DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeekMITJSON+2 | $0.308/1Mvia APIMart | 164K | $0.206/1M | $0.308/1M | 1425 | — | |
| Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.309/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $0.113/1M | $0.382/1M | — | 20K | |
| DeepSeek Coder V2 InstructDeepSeekOpen weights · with terms | $0.32/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.16/1M | $0.32/1M | — | 2K | |
| DeepSeek V2 ChatDeepSeekOpen weights · with terms | $0.32/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.16/1M | $0.32/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek V2p5DeepSeekOpen weights · with terms | $0.32/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.16/1M | $0.32/1M | 1294 | — | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.32/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | — | $0.40/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.32/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | 1285 | — |
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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