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 Ring 1tInclusionaiMITJSON+2 | $2.19/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.548/1M | $2.19/1M | — | Oct 10, 2025 | |
| Ring Flash 2.0InclusionaiMITJSON+2 | $0.544/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.136/1M | $0.544/1M | — | Sep 19, 2025 | |
| Ring-2.6-1TInclusionaiMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.10/1Mvia ZenMux | 262K | $0.132/1M | $1.10/1M | — | May 14 | |
 Riva Translate 4B InstructNVIDIAOpen weights · with terms | Free/1Mvia Nvidia | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | Jun 9, 2025 | |
 Riverflow V2.5 ProSourceful | $10/1Mvia Replicate | — | — | $10/1M | — | — | |
 Rnj-1 InstructEssentialai | $0.15/1Mvia Together AI | — | $0.15/1M | $0.15/1M | — | — | |
 SabaMistralPrompt cachingJSON+1 | $0.60/1Mvia OpenRouter | 33K | $0.20/1M | $0.60/1M | — | Feb 17, 2025 | |
 Sakana NamazuSakana AIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $4/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | — | Aug 3 | |
| SSao10K Stheno 8bSao10KCC BY-NC 4.0Reasoning | $0.05/1Mvia Hugging Face | 8K | $0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | — | Jun 5, 2024 | |
 Sarvam-105BSarvam AIReasoningTool calling | $0.16/1Mvia FastRouter | 128K | $0.04/1M | $0.16/1M | — | Feb 18 | |
| Schematron V2 SmallInference NetPrompt cachingJSON | $0.23/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.05/1M | $0.23/1M | — | Apr 16 | |
| Schematron V2 TurboInference NetPrompt cachingJSON | $0.15/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.03/1M | $0.15/1M | — | Apr 16 | |
 Sea Lion 7B InstructAI Singapore | Free/1Mvia Nvidia | — | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — | |
 Seed 1.6ByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.285/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.114/1M | $0.285/1M | — | Sep 1, 2025 | |
| Seed 1.6 FlashByteDanceJSONReasoning+2 | $0.30/1Mvia APIYI | 262K | $0.075/1M | $0.30/1M | — | Dec 23, 2025 | |
| Seed 1.6 VisionByteDance | $1.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.11/1M | $1.10/1M | — | — | |
| Seed 2.1 TurboByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $1.67/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.50/1M | $2.50/1M | — | Jun 23 | |
| Seed EvolvingByteDancePrompt cachingJSON+3 | $3.33/1Mvia CometAPI | 256K | $0.667/1M | $3.33/1M | — | Jun 23 | |
| Seed Oss 36B InstructByteDanceApache 2.0JSON+3 | $0.534/1Mvia AIHubMix | 256K | $0.20/1M | $0.534/1M | — | Aug 20, 2025 | |
| Riverflow 2.0 ProSourceful | $0.15/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.15/run | — | — | |
 Rundiffusion Photo Fluxrundiffusion-fal | $0.045/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.045/MP | — | — | |
| SanaNVIDIA | $0.001/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/MP | — | — | |
| Sana v1.5 1.6BNVIDIA | $0.007/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.007/MP | — | — | |
| Sana v1.5 4.8BNVIDIA | $0.01/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.01/MP | — | — | |
 Sd3 LargeStability AI | $0.08/imgvia Amazon Bedrock | — | — | $0.08/img | — | — | |
| Sd3.5 LargeStability AI | $0.08/imgvia Amazon Bedrock | — | — | $0.08/img | — | — | |
| SDXL ControlNet UnionStability AI | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | — | — | |
| SeedEdit 3.0 i2iByteDance | $0.03/imgvia BytePlus | — | — | $0.03/img | — | — | |
| RunwayRunway | $0.06/videovia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.06/video | — | — | |
| Runway_act_oneRunway | $0.40/runvia CometAPI | — | — | $0.40/run | — | — | |
| Runway_video2videoRunway | $0.20/runvia CometAPI | — | — | $0.20/run | — | — | |
| Seedance 2.0 USByteDance | $14/1Mvia Fal | — | — | $14/1M | — | — | |
| Seedance 2.5 USByteDance | $21.40/1Mvia Fal | — | — | $21.40/1M | — | — | |
| Seedance LiteByteDance | $0.01/secvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.01/sec | — | — | |
| Seedance v1.0 Pro FastByteDance | $0.009/secvia APIMart | — | — | $0.01/sec | — | Oct 24, 2025 | |
| Seedance v1.5 Pro FastByteDance | $0.018/secvia Atlas Cloud | — | — | $0.018/sec | — | — | |
 SAM AudioMeta | $0.002/secvia Fal | — | — | $0.002/sec | — | — | |
| Scribe V2ElevenLabs | $0.01/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.01/run | — | — | |
| Seed ASR 2.0ByteDance | $0.002/runvia Atlas Cloud | 1K | — | $0.002/run | — | Jun 29 | |
| Seed Speech TTS 2.0ByteDance | $0.06/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.06/run | — | — | |
 Rigging Multi AnimationMeshy | $0.08/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.08/run | — | — | |
 RodinHyper3D | $0.40/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.40/run | — | — | |
| Rodin V2Hyper3D | $0.399/runvia BytePlus | — | — | $0.399/run | — | — | |
| Rodin V2.5Hyper3D | $0.10/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.10/run | — | — | |
| SAM 3D BodyMeta | $0.024/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.024/run | — | — | |
| SAM 3D ObjectsMetaOpen weights | $0.024/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.024/run | — | Oct 6, 2025 | |
| Seed3D 2.0ByteDance | $0.40/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.40/run | — | — | |
| SAM 2Meta | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | — | — | |
| SAM 3MetaOpen weights | $0.005/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.005/run | — | Nov 7, 2025 | |
| SAM 3.1MetaOpen weights | $0.01/runvia Fal | — | — | $0.01/run | — | Mar 26 |
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Scores: LMArena Text leaderboard (CC BY 4.0). Prices: AIModelFind.
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Scores: LMArena Text leaderboard (CC BY 4.0). Prices: AIModelFind.
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