Best Value AI Models
54 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.
26
Exceptional (500+)
8
Great (200–499)
13
Good (50–199)
7
Low Value (<50)
Best Value by Quality Tier
Value Ranking
Full Table
| # | Model | Value | Blended $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Nemo OSS Mistral | 26182 | $0.03 |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct OSS Meta | 16000 | $0.04 |
| 3 | Phi 4 OSS Microsoft | 6103 | $0.12 |
| 4 | Nova Micro 1.0 Amazon | 5978 | $0.11 |
| 5 | Command R7B (12-2024) OSS Cohere | 5328 | $0.12 |
| 6 | Reka Flash 3 Reka | 4229 | $0.18 |
| 7 | Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | 3692 | $0.20 |
| 8 | Llama 4 Scout OSS Meta | 3224 | $0.24 |
| 9 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Google | 3077 | $0.24 |
| 10 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OSS Meta | 2679 | $0.27 |
| 11 | GPT-5 Nano OpenAI | 2496 | $0.31 |
| 12 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Google | 2492 | $0.33 |
| 13 | GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI | 2308 | $0.33 |
| 14 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Google | 2277 | $0.33 |
| 15 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct OSS Meta | 1925 | $0.40 |
| 16 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct OSS Alibaba | 1821 | $0.39 |
| 17 | Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta | 1559 | $0.49 |
| 18 | GPT-4o-mini OpenAI | 1518 | $0.49 |
| 19 | Command R (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 1497 | $0.49 |
| 20 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B OSS Mistral | 1429 | $0.50 |
| 21 | DeepSeek V3.2 OSS DeepSeek | 1227 | $0.63 |
| 22 | DeepSeek V3 OSS DeepSeek | 1023 | $0.74 |
| 23 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct OSS Alibaba | 896 | $0.92 |
| 24 | Sonar Perplexity | 740 | $1.00 |
| 25 | Qwen3 235B A22B OSS Alibaba | 588 | $1.48 |
| 26 | GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI | 577 | $1.30 |
| 27 | R1 0528 OSS DeepSeek | 478 | $1.74 |
| 28 | DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek | 415 | $2.05 |
| 29 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | 400 | $1.95 |
| 30 | Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 300 | $2.60 |
| 31 | Qwen3 Max OSS Alibaba | 272 | $3.12 |
| 32 | O4 Mini OpenAI | 252 | $3.58 |
| 33 | Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic | 238 | $3.20 |
| 34 | o3 Mini OpenAI | 235 | $3.58 |
| 35 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | 190 | $4.00 |
| 36 | Mistral Large OSS Mistral | 146 | $5.00 |
| 37 | O3 OpenAI | 135 | $6.50 |
| 38 | GPT-4.1 OpenAI | 118 | $6.50 |
| 39 | GPT-5 OpenAI | 111 | $7.81 |
| 40 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | 106 | $7.81 |
| 41 | Command A OSS Cohere | 98 | $8.13 |
| 42 | Command R+ (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 97 | $8.13 |
| 43 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | 82 | $10.94 |
| 44 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 72 | $12.00 |
| 45 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | 66 | $12.00 |
| 46 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | 66 | $12.00 |
| 47 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI | 60 | $12.50 |
| 48 | Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic | 43 | $20.00 |
| 49 | o1 OpenAI | 17 | $48.75 |
| 50 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 15 | $60.00 |
| 51 | O3 Pro OpenAI | 14 | $65.00 |
| 52 | Claude Opus 4 Anthropic | 14 | $60.00 |
| 53 | GPT-5 Pro OpenAI | 10 | $93.75 |
| 54 | GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI | 7 | $131.25 |