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| Mercury 2.5 PreviewInceptionPrompt cachingReasoning+1 | $0.75/1Mvia AIHubMix | 260K | $0.20/1M | $0.75/1M | — | — | |
| Mercury Coder Small BetaInceptionJSONTool calling | $1/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 32K | $0.25/1M | $1/1M | — | Feb 26, 2025 | |
 Meta Llama 3 70BMetaLlama 3 | $2.75/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.65/1M | $2.75/1M | — | — | |
| Meta Llama 3 8BMetaLlama 3 | $0.25/1Mvia Replicate | — | $0.05/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — | |
 MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomiMIT | $0.30/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | 256K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | — | Dec 16, 2025 | |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedXiaomiPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $6.96/1Mvia CometAPI | 1.05M | $3.48/1M | $6.96/1M | — | Sep 21 | |
 MiniMax M1MiniMaxReasoningTool calling | $2.20/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.55/1M | $2.20/1M | — | Jun 17, 2025 | |
| MiniMax M1MiniMaxApache 2.0 | $2.20/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.55/1M | $2.20/1M | — | Jun 13, 2025 | |
| MiniMax M2MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $1/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 205K | $0.20/1M | $1/1M | — | Oct 22, 2025 | |
| MiniMax M2.1 Lightning (MiniMax)MiniMaxPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.48/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 205K | $0.12/1M | $0.48/1M | — | Dec 23, 2025 | |
| MiniMax M2.5 highspeedMiniMaxPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.15/1Mvia AIHubMix | 205K | $0.288/1M | $1.15/1M | — | Feb 12 | |
| MiniMax Text 01 (MiniMax)MiniMaxOpen weights | $1.10/1Mvia AI/ML API | — | $0.20/1M | $1.10/1M | — | Jan 12, 2025 | |
| MiniMax-01MiniMaxVision | $1.10/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.M | $0.20/1M | $1.10/1M | — | Jan 15, 2025 | |
| MiniMax-H3-Context-IRMiniMax | $3.60/1Mvia MiniMax | — | $0.90/1M | $3.60/1M | — | — | |
| MiniMax-H3-HighspeedMiniMax | $0.06/secvia MiniMax | — | — | $0.06/sec | — | — | |
| MiniMax-H3-LiteMiniMax | $0.025/secvia MiniMax | — | — | $0.025/sec | — | — | |
| MiniMax-H3-RegenerationMiniMax | $0.05/secvia MiniMax | — | — | $0.05/sec | — | — | |
| MiniMax-M2 HerMiniMaxPrompt caching | $1.20/1Mvia AI/ML API | 66K | $0.30/1M | $1.20/1M | — | Jan 23 | |
| MiniMax-M2.7MiniMaxOpen weightsPrompt caching+3 | $0.60/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 205K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | Apr 9 | |
 Ministral 14BMistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.20/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | 262K | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | — | Dec 2, 2025 | |
| Ministral 3 14BMistralApache 2.0 | $0.20/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | — | Oct 31, 2025 | |
| Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2MistralApache 2.0 | $0.221/1Mvia Cortecs | — | $0.16/1M | $0.221/1M | — | Dec 11, 2023 | |
| Mistral LargeMistralPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $6/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $2/1M | $6/1M | — | Feb 26, 2024 | |
| Mistral Large (latest)Mistral | $12/1Mvia DevPass (LLM Gateway) | — | $4/1M | $12/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Large 2 InstructMistralVision | $9.09/1Mvia Poe | 128K | $3.03/1M | $9.09/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Large 2402Mistral | $13.01/1Mvia Cortecs | — | $4.30/1M | $13.01/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Large 2407MistralNon-commercialPrompt caching+2 | $6/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $2/1M | $6/1M | — | Jul 24, 2024 | |
| Mistral Large 3MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.50/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.50/1M | $1.50/1M | — | Dec 2, 2025 | |
| Mistral Medium (latest)MistralJSONReasoning+1 | $2.20/1Mvia Requesty | 131K | $0.44/1M | $2.20/1M | — | Apr 30 | |
| Mistral Medium 3MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | — | May 7, 2025 | |
| Mistral Medium 3.1MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $2/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | — | Aug 13, 2025 | |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128BMistralOpen weightsVision | $7.50/1Mvia Mistral | 262K | $1.50/1M | $7.50/1M | — | Mar 31 | |
| Mistral Nemo 12B InstructMistral | Free/1Mvia Nvidia | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — | |
 Mistral Nemo Minitron 8B 8K InstructNVIDIA | Free/1Mvia Nvidia | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — | |
| Mistral Small (latest)MistralPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.60/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 262K | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | Sep 17, 2024 | |
| Mistral Small 3MistralApache 2.0JSON | $0.08/1Mvia Deep Infra | 33K | $0.05/1M | $0.08/1M | — | Jan 28, 2025 | |
| Mistral Small 3MistralVision | $0.303/1Mvia Poe | 128K | $0.101/1M | $0.303/1M | — | — | |
 MAI-Image-2.5-FlashMicrosoft | $0.03/imgvia Atlas Cloud | 4K | — | $0.03/img | — | Jun 2 | |
| MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft | $5/1Mvia AIHubMix | 32K | $5/1M | $5/1M | — | Oct 13 | |
| MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMicrosoft | $1.75/1Mvia AIHubMix | 32K | $1.75/1M | $1.75/1M | — | Oct 13 | |
 Meshy v7Meshy | $0.80/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.80/run | — | — | |
| Meshy v7 MultiMeshy | $0.02/imgvia Atlas Cloud | — | — | $0.02/img | — | — | |
| Midjourney V8.1midjourney | $0.086/imgvia Atlas Cloud | — | — | $0.086/img | — | — | |
| MiniMax Image 01 Subject ReferenceMiniMax | $0.01/runvia MuAPI | — | — | $0.01/run | — | — | |
 Marey Realism V1.5moonvalley | $0.30/secvia Fal | — | — | $0.30/sec | — | — | |
 Mirage Xmirage-api | $0.30/secvia Fal | — | — | $0.30/sec | — | — | |
| MinimaxMiniMax | $0.06/1K charsvia Fal | — | — | $0.06/1K chars | — | — | |
 Mirelo SFX2.0Mirelo | $0.01/secvia Fal | — | — | $0.01/sec | — | — | |
| Mistral OCR 2512Mistral | $2/1K pagesvia Mistral | — | — | $2/1K pages | — | — | |
| Mistral Moderation 2603Mistral | Free/1Mvia Mistral | 131K | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — |
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