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 Gemini 4 ArgonGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 2M | Oct 13 | |
| Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $8.28/1Mvia Kenari | 1.05M | $2.78/1M | $13.89/1M | 658K | Jun 13 | |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $25/1Mvia CrazyRouter | 1.05M | $10/1M | $50/1M | 580K | Sep 4 | |
 Muse WonderMetaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $16/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $3.20/1M | $16/1M | 569K | Oct 12 | |
| Claude Opus 5.5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $16/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $4/1M | $20/1M | 405K | Sep 22 | |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 384K | Sep 29 | |
 GLM-5.3Zhipu AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $1.10/1Mvia NanoGPT | 1.05M | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 276K | Aug 25 | |
| Gemini Omni 1.1Google | $0.05/secvia Replicate | — | — | $0.05/sec | 270K | — | |
| GPT-6 SolOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 242K | Sep 22 | |
 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibabaOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $4.11/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $2/1M | $6/1M | 234K | Aug 8 | |
| Grok 4.7xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $4.80/1Mvia APIMart | 500K | $2/1M | $6/1M | 221K | Sep 21 | |
| Gemini 3 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.40/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $0.30/1M | $2.40/1M | 207K | Dec 17, 2025 | |
 DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.03/1Mvia UnoRouter | 1.05M | $0.007/1M | $0.03/1M | 138K | Sep 10 | |
 Mistral Large 4MistralPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.09/1Mvia Opper | 1.05M | $1.36/1M | $4.18/1M | 122K | Oct 6 | |
| GLM-5.3-FlashZhipu AIMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.20/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.15/1M | $0.50/1M | 121K | Aug 25 | |
| Muse Spark 1.3MetaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $4.25/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1.05M | $1.25/1M | $4.25/1M | 121K | Sep 2 | |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+4 | $0.50/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | 120K | Aug 5 | |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.40/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | 117K | Sep 22 | |
 SonarPerplexityVision | $1/1Mvia AI/ML API | 127K | $0.25/1M | $2.50/1M | 112K | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| GLM-5.2Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.80/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1M | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 109K | Jun 16 | |
| Grok Build 0.1xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.60/1Mvia APIMart | 256K | $1/1M | $2/1M | 106K | May 20 | |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 102K | Sep 28 | |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.75/1M | $3.75/1M | 102K | Sep 2 | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.30/1Mvia Kie.ai | 1M | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | 94K | Oct 7 | |
| Muse Spark OpenMetaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $4.25/1Mvia Baseten | 1.05M | $1.25/1M | $4.25/1M | 74K | Oct 15 | |
 MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.696/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $0.348/1M | $0.696/1M | 72K | Sep 21 | |
 CommandCohere | $2/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $1/1M | $2/1M | 72K | — | |
| Qwen3.8 Flash NextAlibabaOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.376/1Mvia CometAPI | 262K | $0.12/1M | $0.376/1M | 63K | Aug 24 | |
| Nano Banana 2Google | $0.067/imgvia Replicate | — | — | $0.067/img | 535K | — | |
| Nano Banana Pro PreviewGoogle | $0.09/runvia APIYI | 66K | — | $0.09/run | 478K | — | |
| Qwen-Image-2.1AlibabaNon-commercial | $0.02/imgvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.02/img | 270K | Sep 14 | |
| Nano Banana 2.1GoogleJSONReasoning+2 | $6/1Mvia CometAPI | 131K | $1.50/1M | $7.50/1M | 251K | Oct 6 | |
 PhotonLuma AI | $0.015/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.015/run | 218K | — | |
| GPT Image 2.5OpenAI | $0.025/runvia APIYI | — | — | $0.025/run | 118K | — | |
| GPT Image 2OpenAIPrompt cachingVision | $24/1Mvia APIMart | 128K | $4/1M | $24/1M | 73K | Apr 21 | |
 Seedance 2.5ByteDance | $0.082/secvia CometAPI | 13K | — | $0.103/sec | 956K | Aug 7 | |
| Seedance 2.0ByteDanceVision | $0.04/secvia APIMart | 13K | — | $0.07/sec | 703K | Apr 14 | |
 MiniMax H3MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsVision | $0.02/secvia WaveSpeedAI | 13K | — | $0.08/sec | 582K | Jul 28 | |
| Veo-3Google | $2.50/runvia MuAPI | — | — | $2.50/run | 482K | — | |
| Sora-2OpenAI | $0.08/secvia CometAPI | — | — | $0.08/sec | 218K | — | |
| Veo 3.1GoogleVision | $0.16/secvia APIMart | — | — | $0.16/sec | 160K | Oct 15, 2025 | |
| Wan3.0Alibaba | $0.025/secvia Replicate | — | — | $0.025/sec | 158K | Aug 24 | |
 Kling 3.0Kuaishou (Kling) | $0.07/secvia Kie.ai | 20K | — | $0.07/sec | 119K | Jul 31 | |
| Wan 2.2Alibaba | $0.01/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.01/run | 97K | — | |
| LTX 2.5LightricksOpen weights · with terms | $0.10/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.10/run | 91K | Jul 23 | |
| Kling V4.0Kuaishou (Kling) | $0.085/secvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.085/sec | 83K | — | |
| FLUX 3Black Forest Labs | $0.03/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.03/run | 77K | — | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSGoogle | $6.30/1Mvia Kie.ai | 8K | — | $9/1M | 137K | Sep 23 | |
| Gemini TTSGoogle | $1/1Mvia Fal | — | — | $1/1M | 78K | — | |
 Hunyuan3DTencent | $0.08/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.08/run | 69K | — |
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AI model comparison: quality vs price
Every ranked LLM plotted by its LMArena score against its lowest price per 1M tokens. Models on the line give the most quality for the money.
Scores: LMArena Text leaderboard (CC BY 4.0). Prices: AIModelFind.
- Gemma 2 9B It1207$0.03
- Gemma 3 4B IT1291$0.05
- Gemma 3 12B IT1334$0.10
- GPT OSS 120B1366$0.14
- Qwen3.5 Flash1397$0.26
- Qwen3.7 Plus1455$0.30
- Gemini 3 Flash1466$2.40
ERNIE 5.11468$2.54- Gemini Pro Latest1480$6.90
Scores: LMArena Text leaderboard (CC BY 4.0). Prices: AIModelFind.
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