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 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 | — | |
| Qwen3.5 9BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+4 | $0.13/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.09/1M | $0.13/1M | 19K | Feb 27 | |
| LongCat 2.5 PreviewMeituanPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.18/1Mvia ZenMux | 1.05M | $0.30/1M | $1.18/1M | 19K | Sep 26 | |
| Grok 4.6xAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $4.80/1Mvia APIMart | 500K | $2/1M | $6/1M | 19K | Aug 12 | |
 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)NVIDIAVision | Free/1Mvia Kenari | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | 18K | — | |
| Qwen3.6 FlashAlibabaJSON | $0.99/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 1M | $0.165/1M | $0.99/1M | 17K | — | |
| Qwen3 VL InstructAlibabaPrompt cachingTool calling+1 | $0.88/1Mvia Vercel AI Gateway | 262K | $0.20/1M | $0.88/1M | 15K | Sep 23, 2025 | |
| Grok 4.20xAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2.50/1Mvia APIYI | 1M | $1.25/1M | $2.50/1M | 15K | Mar 12 | |
| Grok-4xAIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $14.25/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | 256K | $2.85/1M | $14.25/1M | 15K | Jul 9, 2025 | |
| Claude-Haiku-3.5Anthropic | $4/1Mvia Helicone | — | $0.80/1M | $4/1M | 15K | — | |
| 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 | |
| Gemma 2 27BGoogleGemmaJSON | $0.65/1Mvia OpenRouter | 8K | $0.65/1M | $0.65/1M | 14K | Jun 24, 2024 | |
| GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAIPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $8/1Mvia APIMart | 128K | $2.50/1M | $10/1M | 13K | May 13, 2024 | |
| GPT OSS 20BOpenAIApache 2.0JSON+2 | $0.09/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.018/1M | $0.09/1M | 12K | Aug 4, 2025 | |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo 16kOpenAIJSONTool calling | $3.90/1Mvia APIYI | 16K | $3/1M | $3.90/1M | 12K | Aug 28, 2023 | |
| Mercury 2.5InceptionPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.15/1Mvia OpenRouter | 260K | $0.04/1M | $0.15/1M | 12K | Sep 8 | |
| Qwen3 8BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.06/1Mvia SiliconFlow | — | $0.06/1M | $0.06/1M | 12K | Apr 27, 2025 | |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+4 | $0.95/1Mvia Deep Infra | 262K | $0.375/1M | $2.25/1M | 11K | Apr 15 | |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGooglePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $2/1Mvia APIMart | 1.05M | — | $2.50/1M | 11K | Mar 20, 2025 | |
 Solar Pro 4UpstagePrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.127/1Mvia AI/ML API | 524K | $0.032/1M | $0.127/1M | 11K | Aug 10 | |
| Kimi K2.6Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $2.40/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | 11K | Apr 14 | |
| 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 | |
 GLM OCRZhipu AIMITVision | $0.028/1Mvia AIHubMix | 32K | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | 10K | Jan 30 | |
| Gemma 4 E2B ITGoogleApache 2.0 | $0.08/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.04/1M | $0.08/1M | 10K | Mar 2 | |
| Qwen3-4BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.03/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | 10K | Apr 27, 2025 | |
| Qwen3.8 Omni FlashAlibabaPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.38/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1M | $0.113/1M | $0.382/1M | 10K | Sep 17 | |
| GPT Image 2.5 SunburstOpenAIPrompt cachingVision | $24/1Mvia APIMart | 128K | $4/1M | $24/1M | 17K | Sep 8 | |
| FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest LabsOpen weights · with terms | $0.007/imgvia APIMart | — | — | $0.007/img | 16K | Oct 13 | |
 Seedream 4.5ByteDance | $0.026/imgvia APIMart | — | — | $0.04/img | 16K | Dec 3, 2025 | |
 Stable Diffusion v1.5Stability AI | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | 15K | — | |
| FLUX 3 Klein Image BaseBlack Forest Labs | $0.03/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.03/run | 11K | — | |
| FLUX.1-schnellBlack Forest LabsApache 2.0 | $0.003/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.003/MP | 10K | Jul 31, 2024 | |
| Qwen Image 3Alibaba | $0.003/imgvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.003/img | 10K | — | |
| GPT Image 2.5 FlareOpenAIPrompt cachingVision | $1.75/1Mvia UnoRouter | 128K | $1.75/1M | $1.75/1M | 10K | Sep 8 | |
| FLUX 2 Klein Base 4BBlack Forest LabsApache 2.0 | $0.01/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.01/run | 10K | Jan 14 | |
| Stable Diffusion XLStability AI | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | 10K | — | |
| FLUX.2 Klein 4BBlack Forest LabsApache 2.0Vision | $0.008/runvia WaveSpeedAI | 128K | — | $0.008/run | 10K | Jan 14 | |
| wan 2.2 AnimateAlibaba | $0.03/secvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.03/sec | 18K | — | |
| Gemini Omni VideoGoogle | $0.315/videovia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.315/video | 17K | — | |
| Gemini-Omni-1.1-FlashGoogleReasoningVision | $0.10/runvia WaveSpeedAI | 1.05M | — | $0.10/run | 15K | Aug 27, 2025 | |
| Stable Video DiffusionStability AI | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | 14K | — | |
 (Hailuo AI) Video 01MiniMax | $0.50/videovia Fal | — | — | $0.50/video | 13K | — | |
| Veo-2Google | $0.50/secvia Replicate | — | — | $0.50/sec | 11K | — | |
| Lyria 3.5Google | $0.08/runvia Google | 131K | — | $0.08/run | 16K | — | |
| Stable Audio 3Stability AIOpen weights · with terms | $0.038/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.038/run | 10K | May 17 | |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS PreviewGoogleReasoning | $14/1Mvia Kie.ai | 8K | — | $20/1M | 10K | Apr 24 | |
| BGE M3BAAIMIT | $0.01/1Mvia APIYI | — | $0.01/1M | $0.01/1M | 17K | Jan 27, 2024 |
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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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