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 Qwen2-7B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.08/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $0.08/1M | $0.08/1M | 9K | Jun 4, 2024 | |
 DeepSeek V3DeepSeekOpen weightsReasoning+1 | $0.89/1Mvia Deep Infra | 64K | $0.32/1M | $0.89/1M | 9K | Dec 25, 2024 | |
 Aion-2.0Aion LabsPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $1.60/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $0.80/1M | $1.60/1M | 9K | Feb 23 | |
| Mercury 3InceptionPrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.35/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1M | $0.10/1M | $0.35/1M | 9K | Oct 19 | |
 MiniMax M2.5MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $0.95/1Mvia Venice AI | 205K | $0.27/1M | $0.95/1M | 9K | Feb 12 | |
 Llama 4 MaverickMetaJSONTool calling+1 | $0.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.05M | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | 9K | Apr 5, 2025 | |
 Mistral 7B InstructMistral | $0.059/1Mvia Jiekou.AI | — | $0.029/1M | $0.059/1M | 8K | — | |
 Gemma 4 26B A4BorcarouterJSONReasoning+2 | $2.90/1Mvia OrcaRouter | 262K | $0.25/1M | $2.90/1M | 8K | — | |
| Qwen3-Coder-NextAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+1 | $0.548/1Mvia AIHubMix | 262K | $0.137/1M | $0.548/1M | 8K | Jan 30 | |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B InstructMetaJSONTool calling+1 | $0.20/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.31M | $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | 7K | Apr 5, 2025 | |
| Llama 3.2 11B InstructMeta | $0.16/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | — | $0.16/1M | $0.16/1M | 7K | — | |
 GLM-4.7-FlashZhipu AIMITJSON+2 | $0.40/1Mvia Amazon Bedrock | 200K | $0.07/1M | $0.40/1M | 7K | Jan 19 | |
| Qwen3.5 4BAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.07/1Mvia EmpirioLabs AI | 262K | $0.04/1M | $0.07/1M | 7K | Feb 27 | |
| GLM-5.1Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.44/1Mvia APIMart | 200K | $1.40/1M | $4.40/1M | 7K | Apr 3 | |
| GLM 5.3 FlashxZhipu AIPrompt cachingJSON+3 | $0.987/1Mvia AIHubMix | 1.05M | $0.282/1M | $0.987/1M | 7K | Sep 18 | |
 Solar Mini 4UpstagePrompt cachingJSON+2 | $0.20/1Mvia OpenRouter | 524K | $0.05/1M | $0.20/1M | 6K | Sep 23 | |
 Ling 3.0 Flash (free)InclusionaiMITPrompt caching+2 | $0.063/1Mvia OpenRouter | 262K | $0.021/1M | $0.063/1M | 6K | Aug 2 | |
| GLM-4.7Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | 200K | $0.60/1M | $2.20/1M | 6K | Dec 22, 2025 | |
| GLM-4.5Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.16/1Mvia ZenMux | 131K | $0.60/1M | $2.20/1M | 6K | Jul 20, 2025 | |
| GLM-4.6Zhipu AIMITPrompt caching+3 | $1.10/1Mvia AIHubMix | 200K | $0.60/1M | $2.20/1M | 6K | Sep 29, 2025 | |
 Gemma 4GoogleApache 2.0JSON+3 | $0.30/1Mvia FastRouter | 262K | $0.10/1M | $0.30/1M | 6K | Mar 11 | |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0Prompt caching+3 | $0.278/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 262K | $0.069/1M | $0.278/1M | 6K | Oct 11, 2025 | |
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeedMoonshot AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+4 | $2.76/1Mvia Kenari | 262K | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | 6K | Jun 11 | |
| LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquid AIOpen weights · with termsPrompt caching+3 | $0.70/1Mvia OpenRouter | 128K | $0.05/1M | $0.70/1M | 6K | Oct 12 | |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-ThinkingAlibabaApache 2.0JSON+3 | $0.694/1Mvia SiliconFlow | 131K | $0.069/1M | $0.694/1M | 6K | Oct 11, 2025 | |
| Llama 3.1 405B (reasoning)Meta | $4/1Mvia AIHubMix | — | $4/1M | $4/1M | 6K | — | |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7BAlibabaApache 2.0 | $0.03/1Mvia Hugging Face | — | $0.01/1M | $0.03/1M | 6K | Sep 16, 2024 | |
| Hermes 3 405B InstructNous ResearchLlama 3JSON | $1/1Mvia OpenRouter | 131K | $1/1M | $1/1M | 5K | Aug 13, 2024 | |
| Kimi K2.8 PreviewMoonshot AIPrompt cachingReasoning+1 | $3.91/1Mvia CrazyRouter | 1.05M | $0.942/1M | $3.91/1M | 5K | Sep 14 | |
 MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomiMITPrompt caching+3 | $0.609/1Mvia OpenRouter | 1.05M | $0.304/1M | $0.609/1M | 5K | Apr 27 | |
| FLUX.2 [pro]Black Forest Labs | $0.024/imgvia APIMart | 67K | — | $0.024/img | 9K | Nov 25, 2025 | |
| Nano Banana 2 LiteGoogle | $0.034/imgvia Replicate | — | — | $0.034/img | 8K | — | |
 Seedream 5.0 LiteByteDance | $0.028/imgvia Kie.ai | 4K | — | $0.035/img | 8K | Feb 13 | |
| Qwen Image 2Alibaba | $0.02/imgvia APIMart | — | — | $0.02/img | 8K | — | |
| Qwen Image 2.0 ProAlibaba | $0.05/imgvia APIMart | — | — | $0.05/img | 7K | — | |
| FLUX.1-devBlack Forest LabsNon-commercial | $0.025/MPvia Fal | — | — | $0.025/MP | 7K | Jul 31, 2024 | |
| Seedream 4.0ByteDance | $0.003/imgvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.03/img | 6K | Sep 9, 2025 | |
| Imagen-3Google | $0.05/imgvia Replicate | — | — | $0.05/img | 6K | — | |
| Ideogram V4Ideogram | $0.018/imgvia Kie.ai | — | — | $0.018/img | 6K | — | |
| Recraft V4Recraft | $0.04/imgvia Fal | — | — | $0.04/img | 5K | Mar 13, 2024 | |
 Kling V3 Turbo ProKuaishou (Kling) | $0.14/secvia Fal | — | — | $0.14/sec | 8K | — | |
| Flux 3Black Forest Labs | $0.03/secvia Atlas Cloud | 13K | — | $0.03/sec | 8K | Aug 4 | |
| Seedance 2.0 MiniByteDance | $0.011/secvia APIMart | — | — | $0.04/sec | 7K | Jun 22 | |
| kling 3.0 motion controlKuaishou (Kling) | $0.07/secvia Replicate | — | — | $0.07/sec | 7K | Mar 4 | |
 Hunyuan Video 1.5TencentOpen weights · with terms | $0.04/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.04/run | 6K | Nov 18, 2025 | |
| MiniMax H3 SingularityMiniMax | $0.025/secvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.025/sec | 6K | — | |
| LTX 2LightricksOpen weights · with terms | $0.10/runvia WaveSpeedAI | — | — | $0.10/run | 6K | Jan 3 | |
| Seed Audio 1.0ByteDance | $0.188/minvia Fal | — | — | $0.188/min | 9K | — | |
 Stable Audio OpenStability AI | $0.001/GPU-secvia Fal | — | — | $0.001/GPU-sec | 8K | — | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSGoogle | $4.20/1Mvia Kie.ai | 8K | — | $6/1M | 8K | Sep 23 |
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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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