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Cheapest AI models (paid)

Lowest cost-per-million-tokens across the catalog. Excludes free models.

What this is Ranked by capability match + real benchmark scores + live pricing, daily-refreshed. Benchmark sources: Aider Polyglot (coding) and Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (overall, coding, agentic). Full methodology →

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#ModelScoreIn / 1MOut / 1MContext
1 Mistral: Mistral Nemomistralai/mistral-nemo — $0.019 $0.030 131,072 Details →
2 inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl 39 1/5 $0.021 $0.062 262,144 Details →
3 inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flashinclusionai/ling-3.0-flash 39 1/5 $0.021 $0.063 262,144 Details →
4 Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunarissao10k/l3-lunaris-8b — $0.040 $0.050 8,192 Details →
5 OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bopenai/gpt-oss-20b 24 2/5 $0.018 $0.090 131,072 Details →
6 IBM: Granite 4.0 Microibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro — $0.017 $0.112 131,000 Details →
7 Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instructmeta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct 6 1/5 $0.050 $0.080 131,072 Details →
8 Mistral: Mistral Small 3mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 29 1/5 $0.050 $0.080 32,768 Details →
9 OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)openai/gpt-oss-20b:batch 24 2/5 $0.024 $0.112 131,072 Details →
10 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash — $0.047 $0.094 1,048,576 Details →
11 Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)mistralai/ministral-8b-2512:batch — $0.075 $0.075 262,144 Details →
12 Google: Gemma 3 4Bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it 21 2/5 $0.050 $0.100 131,072 Details →
13 Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flashqwen/qwen3.7-flash — $0.030 $0.130 1,000,000 Details →
14 OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)openai/gpt-oss-120b:batch 39 3/5 $0.030 $0.136 131,072 Details →
15 Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0amazon/nova-micro-v1 — $0.035 $0.140 128,000 Details →
16 Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 — $0.060 $0.120 262,144 Details →
17 Inference.net: Schematron V2 Turboinference-net/schematron-v2-turbo — $0.030 $0.150 128,000 Details →
18 Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest~z-ai/glm-flash-latest — $0.045 $0.140 1,310,720 Details →
19 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flashz-ai/glm-5.3-flash 71 1/5 $0.045 $0.140 1,310,720 Details →
20 Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024)cohere/command-r7b-12-2024 — $0.037 $0.150 128,000 Details →
21 Inception: Mercury 2.5inception/mercury-2.5 16 1/5 $0.040 $0.150 260,000 Details →
22 MythoMax 13Bgryphe/mythomax-l2-13b — $0.080 $0.110 8,192 Details →
23 Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512mistralai/ministral-3b-2512 — $0.100 $0.100 131,072 Details →
24 Google: Gemma 3 12Bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it 0 1/5 $0.050 $0.150 131,072 Details →
25 Reka Edgerekaai/reka-edge — $0.100 $0.100 16,384 Details →
26 Microsoft: Phi 4microsoft/phi-4 4 1/5 $0.070 $0.140 16,384 Details →
27 Tencent: Hy-MT2-1.8Btencent/hy-mt2-1.8b — $0.044 $0.177 8,192 Details →
28 OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (batch)openai/gpt-5-nano:batch 17 1/5 $0.025 $0.200 400,000 Details →
29 Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instructmeta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct 1 2/5 $0.027 $0.201 60,000 Details →
30 inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fininclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin 35 1/5 $0.060 $0.180 262,144 Details →
31 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen/qwen3.5-9b 18 1/5 $0.100 $0.150 262,144 Details →
32 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch 5 1/5 $0.050 $0.200 1,048,576 Details →
33 OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano (batch)openai/gpt-4.1-nano:batch 17 3/5 $0.050 $0.200 1,047,576 Details →
34 Upstage: Solar Mini 4 NEWupstage/solar-mini4 — $0.050 $0.200 524,288 Details →
35 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3Bnvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b 6 1/5 $0.050 $0.200 262,144 Details →
36 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batch 71 1/5 $0.060 $0.200 1,048,576 Details →
37 Poolside: Laguna S 2.1poolside/laguna-s-2.1 — $0.090 $0.180 1,048,576 Details →
38 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightningnvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning 17 1/5 $0.080 $0.200 1,000,000 Details →
39 Inference.net: Schematron V2 Smallinference-net/schematron-v2-small — $0.050 $0.230 128,000 Details →
40 Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it 51 2/5 $0.068 $0.225 262,144 Details →
41 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) NEWopenai/gpt-6-luna-pro:batch — $0.050 $0.250 1,050,000 Details →
42 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) NEWopenai/gpt-6-luna:batch 62 1/5 $0.050 $0.250 1,050,000 Details →
43 Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 — $0.150 $0.150 262,144 Details →
44 Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0amazon/nova-lite-v1 — $0.060 $0.240 300,000 Details →
45 Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributormeta/muse-spark-1.3-contributor — $0.100 $0.200 1,048,576 Details →
46 Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributormeta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor — $0.100 $0.200 1,048,576 Details →
47 ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B bytedance/ui-tars-1.5-7b — $0.100 $0.200 128,000 Details →
48 Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instructqwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct — $0.100 $0.200 32,768 Details →
49 Reka Flash 3rekaai/reka-flash-3 4 1/5 $0.100 $0.200 65,536 Details →
50 IBM: Granite 4.2 8Bibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b 14 1/5 $0.060 $0.250 131,072 Details →

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