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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| Claude-Haiku-3AnthropicVision | $1.25/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.25/1M | $1.25/1M | 1195 | — | |
 ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47BBaidu | $1.25/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | — | $0.42/1M | $1.25/1M | — | — | |
 GLM-5.3 Flashx LegalZhipu AI | $1.25/1Mvia Z.AI | — | $0.37/1M | $1.25/1M | — | — | |
| Relace Apply 3Relace | $1.25/1Mvia OpenRouter | 256K | $0.85/1M | $1.25/1M | — | — | |
| GLM-5Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.28/1Mvia APIMart | 205K | $1/1M | $3.20/1M | 1446 | 23K | |
| GPT-4.1 miniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.28/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.40/1M | $1.60/1M | 1341 | — | |
| Kimi Dev 72BMoonshot AIMIT | $1.28/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.32/1M | $1.28/1M | — | — | |
 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeekPrompt cachingJSON | $1.32/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.44/1M | $1.32/1M | — | — | |
 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIALlama 3.1 | $1.32/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | 1283 | — | |
 Qwen3-VL PlusAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.37/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.143/1M | $1.43/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.6 PlusAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.37/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $0.276/1M | $1.65/1M | 1462 | — | |
| Qwen MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.38/1Mvia Alibaba | 33K | $0.345/1M | $1.38/1M | 1282 | — | |
 Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro 32KByteDance | $1.38/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.46/1M | $1.38/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3-VL-32B-ThinkingAlibabaApache 2.0 | $1.39/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.139/1M | $1.39/1M | — | — | |
 Aion 3.5 MiniAion LabsPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.40/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.70/1M | $1.40/1M | — | — | |
| Aion-3.0-MiniAion LabsPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.40/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.70/1M | $1.40/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen Plus Character (Japanese)Alibaba | $1.40/1Mvia Alibaba | — | $0.50/1M | $1.40/1M | — | — | |
| Grok Code Fast 1xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.43/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | 256K | $0.19/1M | $1.43/1M | 1167 | 3K | |
 Macaron V1 TallMindlabPrompt cachingReasoning | $1.43/1Mvia Novita AI | 256K | $0.247/1M | $1.43/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3 MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.43/1Mvia Ofox | 262K | $0.36/1M | $1.43/1M | 1413 | — | |
| Doubao 1.5 Pro 256kByteDance | $1.44/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.80/1M | $1.44/1M | — | 150 | |
| Doubao Pro 128KByteDance | $1.44/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.80/1M | $1.44/1M | — | — | |
| Doubao Pro 256KByteDance | $1.44/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.80/1M | $1.44/1M | — | — | |
| GLM-5.1Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.44/1Mvia APIMart | 200K | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 1508 | 7K | |
| SL3-70B-Euryale-v2.1Sao10KCC BY-NC 4.0 | $1.48/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | — | $1.48/1M | $1.48/1M | — | — | |
 Aya Expanse 32BCohereCC BY-NC 4.0 | $1.50/1Mvia Cohere | — | $0.50/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Command A PlusCohereApache 2.0Prompt caching+4 | $1.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 192K | $0.30/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Command R 03-2024Cohere | $1.50/1Mvia Cohere | — | $0.50/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
 Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.50/1Mvia Vertex | 1.05M | — | $3/1M | — | — | |
| Gemini Flash Lite LatestGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.50/1Mvia OrcaRouter | — | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Grok Code FastxAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.50/1Mvia APIYI | 256K | $0.20/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
 Inkling (256K)Thinking MachinesPrompt cachingReasoning+2 | $1.50/1Mvia Venice AI | 256K | $0.563/1M | $1.50/1M | 1442 | — | |
 Magistral Small 1.2MistralApache 2.0 | $1.50/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.50/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Large 3MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.50/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Perceptron Mk1PerceptronJSONReasoning+1 | $1.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 33K | $0.15/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Perceptron Mk1.5PerceptronJSONReasoning+2 | $1.50/1Mvia OpenRouter | 37K | $0.15/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3 Livetranslate FlashAlibaba | $1.58/1Mvia Alibaba | — | $1.58/1M | $1.58/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.58/1Mvia CometAPI | 1M | $0.66/1M | $1.98/1M | — | — | |
 Ahm Phi 3.5 Vision InstructMicrosoftMITVision | $1.60/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.40/1M | $1.60/1M | — | — | |
| Aion-2.0Aion LabsPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.60/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.80/1M | $1.60/1M | — | 9K | |
| GPT-5.1 Codex miniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.60/1Mvia APIMart | 400K | $0.20/1M | $1.60/1M | 1244 | — | |
| Grok Build 0.1xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.60/1Mvia APIMart | 256K | $1/1M | $2/1M | — | 106K | |
| OpenAI GPT-5 MiniOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.60/1Mvia APIMart | 400K | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | 1373 | — | |
| Qwen3.6 PlusAlibabaJSON | $1.65/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.276/1M | $1.65/1M | — | — | |
| Seed 2.1 TurboByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.67/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.50/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek-V3.2-SpecialeDeepSeekMIT | $1.68/1Mvia Impossibl | — | $0.58/1M | $1.68/1M | — | — | |
| Kimi K2 InstructMoonshot AIOpen weights · with termsTool calling | $1.68/1Mvia APIMart | 131K | $0.40/1M | $1.68/1M | — | 26K | |
| Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $1.68/1Mvia APIMart | 262K | $0.40/1M | $1.68/1M | — | — | |
| DeepSeek R1DeepSeekMITReasoning+1 | $1.79/1Mvia APIMart | 164K | $0.448/1M | $1.79/1M | — | 22K | |
| Claude Instant 1Anthropic | $1.79/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1.79/1M | $1.79/1M | — | — |
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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