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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| TCydonia 24B V4.1ThedrummerOpen weightsPrompt caching+1 | $0.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.30/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| GPT 6 Luna CodexOpenAI | $0.50/1Mvia Atlas Cloud | — | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.05M | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 3 MinixAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.50/1Mvia Helicone | 131K | $0.30/1M | $0.50/1M | 1369 | — | |
| Grok 4 Fast Non ReasoningxAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.50/1Mvia Helicone | 2M | $0.20/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok 4 Fast ReasoningxAI | $0.50/1Mvia Helicone | — | $0.20/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok-4-FastxAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.50/1Mvia Azure | 2M | $0.20/1M | $0.50/1M | 1407 | — | |
| LFM2.5-2.6B (free)Liquid AIOpen weights · with termsJSON+2 | $0.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 66K | $0.35/1M | $0.50/1M | — | 2K | |
 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253BNVIDIA | $0.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | 1320 | — | |
 Llama-2-13b-chat-hfMetaLlama 2 | $0.50/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | 1084 | 5K | |
| Llama2 70B ChatMetaLlama 2 | $0.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.50/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
| Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B A12BNVIDIA | $0.50/1Mvia Perplexity | — | $0.20/1M | $0.50/1M | — | 2K | |
| Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12BNVIDIAJSONReasoning+2 | $0.50/1Mvia Baseten | 1M | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — | |
 Phi 4 Reasoning PlusMicrosoftMIT | $0.50/1Mvia Azure | — | $0.125/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
 Qwen-SEA-LION-v4-32B-ITAI SingaporeMIT | $0.50/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.25/1M | $0.50/1M | — | — | |
 Qwen2.5-VL 72B InstructAlibabaOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+2 | $0.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | 128K | $0.50/1M | $0.50/1M | 1107 | — | |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+4 | $0.50/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | 1591 | 120K | |
 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (Thinking)DeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $0.51/1Mvia Ofox | 1M | $0.19/1M | $0.51/1M | — | — | |
 Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite 260428ByteDanceJSONReasoning+2 | $0.51/1Mvia ZenMux | 256K | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — | |
| Phi 3 Mini 128K InstructMicrosoftMIT | $0.52/1Mvia Azure | — | $0.13/1M | $0.52/1M | 1050 | — | |
| Seed Oss 36B InstructByteDanceApache 2.0JSON+3 | $0.534/1Mvia AIHubMix | 256K | $0.20/1M | $0.534/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen-MT TurboAlibaba | $0.535/1Mvia AIHubMix | 16K | $0.192/1M | $0.535/1M | — | — | |
 ERNIE X1 TurboBaiduJSONReasoning+1 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | 51K | $0.136/1M | $0.544/1M | — | — | |
| ERNIE X1.1 PreviewBaiduJSONReasoning+1 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | 119K | $0.136/1M | $0.544/1M | — | — | |
 Ling-flash-2.0InclusionaiMITJSON+1 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.136/1M | $0.544/1M | 1361 | — | |
| Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1M | $0.30/1M | $1.50/1M | — | 10K | |
| Ring Flash 2.0InclusionaiMITJSON+2 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.136/1M | $0.544/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qianfan Llama 8BDeepSeek | $0.548/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.137/1M | $0.548/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3-Coder-NextAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.548/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.137/1M | $0.548/1M | — | 8K | |
 Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistralJSONTool calling+1 | $0.555/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.351/1M | $0.555/1M | — | — | |
| Kimi K2.5Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.555/1Mvia APIMart | 262K | $0.411/1M | $0.555/1M | 1445 | 22K | |
 Hunyuan-A13B-InstructTencentOpen weights · with termsJSON+1 | $0.556/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 131K | $0.139/1M | $0.556/1M | — | 130 | |
| Qwen3-VL-32B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.556/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.139/1M | $0.556/1M | — | — | |
| Qwq 32BAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.56/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.14/1M | $0.56/1M | 1329 | — | |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 128KAlibaba | $0.574/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.574/1M | $0.574/1M | — | 3K | |
| Qwen-VL MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.58/1Mvia Ofox | 128K | $0.23/1M | $0.58/1M | 1213 | — | |
| Ahm Phi 3 Small 128KMicrosoftMIT | $0.60/1Mvia Azure | — | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
 Command LightCohere | $0.60/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.30/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| Command RCohereCC BY-NC 4.0JSON+1 | $0.60/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
 Gemini ProGoogle | $0.60/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.20/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini-2.0-FlashGoogle | $0.60/1Mvia Vertex | — | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | 1354 | — | |
| GPT 4o Mini Audio PreviewOpenAI | $0.60/1Mvia AIHubMix | 128K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| GPT-4o Mini Search PreviewOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.60/1Mvia AIHubMix | 128K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| Hy3 PreviewTencentOpen weightsPrompt caching+2 | $0.60/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.18/1M | $0.60/1M | 1401 | — | |
 MiniMax-M2.7MiniMaxOpen weightsPrompt caching+3 | $0.60/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 205K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | 1405 | — | |
| Mistral Small (latest)MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.60/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 262K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Small 4MistralPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.60/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | 930 | |
| Nemotron-nano 12b v2-vlNVIDIAReasoningTool calling+1 | $0.60/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 131K | $0.20/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
 Palmyra Vision 7BWriter | $0.60/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3 235B A22BAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+2 | $0.60/1Mvia Hugging Face | 128K | $0.20/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — |
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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