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 DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.17/1Mvia Opper | 1.05M | $0.07/1M | $0.17/1M | 51K | Apr 22 | |
| Claude-Sonnet-3.5Anthropic | $15/1Mvia Helicone | — | $3/1M | $15/1M | 47K | — | |
| 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 | |
| GPT-4OpenAIJSONTool calling | $60/1Mvia AI/ML API | 8K | $30/1M | $60/1M | 43K | May 28, 2023 | |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.418/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.05M | $0.209/1M | $0.418/1M | 40K | Apr 22 | |
 Ling 3.1 FlashInclusionaiMITPrompt caching+2 | $0.225/1Mvia Deep Infra | 262K | $0.075/1M | $0.225/1M | 38K | Oct 13 | |
 Qwen2-1.5B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | 37K | Jun 3, 2024 | |
| 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 | — | |
| GPT-5OpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 400K | $1.25/1M | $10/1M | 35K | Aug 7, 2025 | |
| Claude Fable 5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $40/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $10/1M | $50/1M | 35K | Jul 1 | |
| GPT OSS 120BOpenAIApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.14/1Mvia Requesty | 131K | $0.032/1M | $0.14/1M | 35K | Aug 4, 2025 | |
| Jamba InstructAI21 Labs | $0.70/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.50/1M | $0.70/1M | 35K | — | |
| Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $40/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $10/1M | $50/1M | 34K | Aug 31 | |
| Qwen3 1.7BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.46/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.046/1M | $0.46/1M | 33K | Apr 27, 2025 | |
| 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 | |
| Kimi K2 InstructMoonshot AIOpen weights · with termsTool calling | $1.68/1Mvia APIMart | 131K | $0.40/1M | $1.68/1M | 26K | Jul 11, 2025 | |
| MiniMax-M3MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.90/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.30/1M | $1.20/1M | 26K | Jun 2 | |
| GPT-5.6OpenAI | $30/1Mvia Prime Inference | — | $5/1M | $30/1M | 26K | — | |
| Qwen3.8 MaxAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $4.11/1Mvia APIMart | 1M | $1.65/1M | $4.95/1M | 25K | Aug 3 | |
 Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | $0.70/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.70/1M | $0.70/1M | 24K | — | |
 Gemini 3 ProGoogle | $12/1Mvia Replicate | — | $2/1M | $12/1M | 23K | — | |
 GLM-5Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.28/1Mvia APIMart | 205K | $1/1M | $3.20/1M | 23K | Feb 11 | |
| Grok 3xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $15/1Mvia AIHubMix | 131K | $3/1M | $15/1M | 23K | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| DeepSeek R1DeepSeekMITReasoning+1 | $1.79/1Mvia APIMart | 164K | $0.448/1M | $1.79/1M | 22K | Jan 20, 2025 | |
| Kimi K2.5Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $0.555/1Mvia APIMart | 262K | $0.411/1M | $0.555/1M | 22K | Jan 1 | |
| Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $6.90/1Mvia Kenari | 1M | $2/1M | $10/1M | 22K | Jun 29 | |
| Gemma 4 31BGoogleApache 2.0Prompt caching+1 | $0.404/1Mvia Poe | 262K | $0.151/1M | $0.404/1M | 20K | Mar 12 | |
| Ideogram V4.5Ideogram | $0.06/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.06/run | 52K | — | |
 Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance | $0.022/imgvia Replicate | — | — | $0.045/img | 44K | Jul 11 | |
| Z Image TurboAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.005/imgvia Atlas Cloud | — | — | $0.005/img | 35K | Nov 25, 2025 | |
| Qwen Image EditAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.03/imgvia Replicate | — | — | $0.03/img | 29K | Aug 17, 2025 | |
| FLUX 1 SRPOBlack Forest Labs | $0.025/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.025/run | 29K | — | |
| FLUX 2Black Forest Labs | $0.012/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.012/MP | 26K | — | |
| Qwen Image 2.1 TurboAlibabaNon-commercial | $0.014/imgvia AIHubMix | — | — | $0.014/img | 24K | Oct 9 | |
| FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs | $0.02/imgvia Atlas Cloud | — | — | $0.02/img | 22K | Oct 5 | |
| Z ImageAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.005/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.005/run | 20K | Jan 23 | |
| MiniMax H3 MaxMiniMaxVision | $0.048/secvia Atlas Cloud | 13K | — | $0.05/sec | 31K | Aug 27 | |
| Wan 2.1Alibaba | $0.02/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.02/run | 28K | — | |
| Wan 2.5Alibaba | $0.034/secvia APIMart | — | — | $0.034/sec | 28K | — | |
| LTX 2.3LightricksOpen weights · with terms | $0.03/secvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.03/sec | 25K | Mar 4 | |
| hKokoro TTShexgrad | $0.02/1K charsvia Fal | — | — | $0.02/1K chars | 47K | — | |
| Eleven v4ElevenLabs | $0.08/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.08/run | 47K | — | |
| Gemini 3.8 LiveGoogleTool calling | $4.50/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 131K | $0.75/1M | $4.50/1M | 38K | Sep 15 | |
| Qwen3 TTSAlibaba | $0.02/1K charsvia Replicate | — | — | $0.02/1K chars | 30K | — | |
| ElevenLabs-MusicElevenLabs | $0.60/minvia Fal | — | — | $0.60/min | 24K | — |
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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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