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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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.40/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.10/1M | $0.50/1M | 117K | Sep 22 | |
| GLM-5.2Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.80/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1M | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 109K | Jun 16 | |
| 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 | |
| DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.17/1Mvia Opper | 1.05M | $0.07/1M | $0.17/1M | 51K | Apr 22 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.294/1Mvia Deep Infra | 1.05M | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | 47K | Oct 17 | |
| Claude Opus 5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $20/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $5/1M | $25/1M | 46K | Jul 24 | |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.418/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.05M | $0.209/1M | $0.418/1M | 40K | Apr 22 | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $12/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $3/1M | $15/1M | 36K | Feb 17 | |
| Qwen3.5 FlashAlibabaJSON | $0.287/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.029/1M | $0.287/1M | 36K | — | |
| Claude Fable 5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $40/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $10/1M | $50/1M | 35K | Jul 1 | |
| Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $40/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $10/1M | $50/1M | 34K | Aug 31 | |
| GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.96/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $0.20/1M | $1.20/1M | 33K | Jul 9 | |
 MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMaxOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.45/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1.05M | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | 29K | Oct 17 | |
| MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.10/1Mvia UnoRouter | 1.05M | $0.05/1M | $0.10/1M | 28K | Sep 21 | |
| GPT-5.6OpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $10/1Mvia Boundless | 1.05M | $4/1M | $20/1M | 28K | Jul 9 | |
| MiniMax-M3MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.90/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.30/1M | $1.20/1M | 26K | Jun 2 | |
| Qwen3.8 MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $4.11/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.65/1M | $4.95/1M | 25K | Aug 3 | |
| Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $6.90/1Mvia Kenari | 1M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 22K | Jun 29 | |
| Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.309/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $0.113/1M | $0.382/1M | 20K | Aug 26 | |
| Gemini 3.1 ProGooglePrompt cachingVision | $12/1Mvia CrazyRouter | 1.05M | $2/1M | $12/1M | 19K | — | |
| LongCat 2.5 PreviewMeituanPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.18/1Mvia ZenMux | 1.05M | $0.30/1M | $1.18/1M | 19K | Sep 26 | |
| Qwen3.6 FlashAlibabaJSON | $0.99/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.165/1M | $0.99/1M | 17K | — | |
| Grok 4.20xAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.50/1Mvia APIYI | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | 15K | Mar 12 | |
| Gemini 2.5 ProGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | $1.25/1M | $10/1M | 14K | Mar 20, 2025 | |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed (Moonshot AI)Moonshot AIPrompt cachingReasoning+1 | $20/1Mvia Impossibl | 1.05M | $4/1M | $20/1M | 14K | Oct 23 | |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | — | $2.50/1M | 11K | Mar 20, 2025 | |
| Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1M | $0.30/1M | $1.50/1M | 10K | Aug 5, 2025 | |
| MiMo-V2.5XiaomiMITPrompt caching+4 | $0.224/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $0.112/1M | $0.224/1M | 10K | Apr 27 | |
| Qwen3.8 Omni FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.38/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1M | $0.113/1M | $0.382/1M | 10K | Sep 17 | |
| Mercury 3InceptionPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.35/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.10/1M | $0.35/1M | 9K | Oct 19 | |
| Llama 4 MaverickMetaJSONTool calling+1 | $0.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.05M | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | 9K | Apr 5, 2025 | |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B InstructMetaJSONTool calling+1 | $0.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.31M | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | 7K | Apr 5, 2025 |
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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.
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- Qwen3.7 Plus1455$0.30
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