Best Value AI Models
42 LLMs ranked by value — quality per dollar spent. Find models that punch above their weight class.
Value Score = (Quality Score / Blended Price) × 10. Higher is better. See our methodology.
21
Exceptional (500+)
5
Great (200–499)
13
Good (50–199)
3
Low Value (<50)
Best Value by Quality Tier
Value Ranking
Full Table
| # | Model | Value | Blended $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Nemo OSS Mistral | 20571 | $0.03 |
| 2 | Nova Micro 1.0 Amazon | 5978 | $0.11 |
| 3 | Command R7B (12-2024) OSS Cohere | 5328 | $0.12 |
| 4 | Reka Flash 3 Reka | 4229 | $0.18 |
| 5 | Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | 3692 | $0.20 |
| 6 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Google | 3118 | $0.24 |
| 7 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OSS Meta | 2981 | $0.27 |
| 8 | GPT-5 Nano OpenAI | 2496 | $0.31 |
| 9 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Google | 2492 | $0.33 |
| 10 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Google | 2400 | $0.33 |
| 11 | GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI | 2308 | $0.33 |
| 12 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct OSS Alibaba | 2202 | $0.32 |
| 13 | QwQ 32B OSS Alibaba | 1651 | $0.47 |
| 14 | GPT-4o-mini OpenAI | 1641 | $0.49 |
| 15 | Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta | 1538 | $0.49 |
| 16 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B OSS Mistral | 1498 | $0.51 |
| 17 | Command R (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 1497 | $0.49 |
| 18 | DeepSeek V3.2 OSS DeepSeek | 1371 | $0.63 |
| 19 | DeepSeek V3 OSS DeepSeek | 1017 | $0.75 |
| 20 | Sonar Perplexity | 740 | $1.00 |
| 21 | Qwen3 235B A22B OSS Alibaba | 588 | $1.48 |
| 22 | DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek | 415 | $2.05 |
| 23 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | 400 | $1.95 |
| 24 | Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 300 | $2.60 |
| 25 | Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic | 256 | $3.20 |
| 26 | O4 Mini OpenAI | 252 | $3.58 |
| 27 | Mistral Large OSS Mistral | 172 | $5.00 |
| 28 | O3 OpenAI | 135 | $6.50 |
| 29 | GPT-4.1 OpenAI | 118 | $6.50 |
| 30 | GPT-5 OpenAI | 111 | $7.81 |
| 31 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | 106 | $7.81 |
| 32 | Command A OSS Cohere | 101 | $8.13 |
| 33 | Command R+ (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 97 | $8.13 |
| 34 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | 82 | $10.94 |
| 35 | Grok 4 xAI | 73 | $12.00 |
| 36 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 72 | $12.00 |
| 37 | Grok 3 Beta xAI | 71 | $12.00 |
| 38 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | 66 | $12.00 |
| 39 | GPT-4o (extended) OpenAI | 50 | $15.00 |
| 40 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 15 | $60.00 |
| 41 | O3 Pro OpenAI | 14 | $65.00 |
| 42 | Claude Opus 4 Anthropic | 14 | $60.00 |