Best Value AI Models
51 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.
25
Exceptional (500+)
7
Great (200–499)
13
Good (50–199)
6
Low Value (<50)
Best Value by Quality Tier
Value Ranking
Full Table
| # | Model | Value | Blended $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Nemo OSS Mistral | 26422 | $0.03 |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct OSS Meta | 9379 | $0.07 |
| 3 | Phi 4 OSS Microsoft | 6041 | $0.12 |
| 4 | Nova Micro 1.0 Amazon | 5978 | $0.11 |
| 5 | Command R7B (12-2024) OSS Cohere | 5328 | $0.12 |
| 6 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) Google | 4554 | $0.16 |
| 7 | Reka Flash 3 Reka | 4229 | $0.18 |
| 8 | Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | 3692 | $0.20 |
| 9 | Llama 4 Scout OSS Meta | 2796 | $0.28 |
| 10 | GPT-5 Nano OpenAI | 2496 | $0.31 |
| 11 | GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI | 2308 | $0.33 |
| 12 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct OSS Meta | 1925 | $0.40 |
| 13 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct OSS Alibaba | 1821 | $0.39 |
| 14 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI | 1518 | $0.49 |
| 15 | Command R (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 1497 | $0.49 |
| 16 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B OSS Mistral | 1429 | $0.50 |
| 17 | Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta | 1169 | $0.65 |
| 18 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OSS Meta | 1000 | $0.71 |
| 19 | DeepSeek V3.2 OSS DeepSeek | 948 | $0.81 |
| 20 | DeepSeek V3 OSS DeepSeek | 909 | $0.84 |
| 21 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct OSS Alibaba | 896 | $0.92 |
| 22 | Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) Google | 800 | $0.97 |
| 23 | Sonar Perplexity | 740 | $1.00 |
| 24 | Qwen3 235B A22B OSS Alibaba | 588 | $1.48 |
| 25 | GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI | 577 | $1.30 |
| 26 | R1 0528 OSS DeepSeek | 478 | $1.74 |
| 27 | DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek | 415 | $2.05 |
| 28 | Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | 380 | $2.00 |
| 29 | Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 300 | $2.60 |
| 30 | Qwen3 Max OSS Alibaba | 272 | $3.12 |
| 31 | O4 Mini OpenAI | 252 | $3.58 |
| 32 | o3 Mini OpenAI | 235 | $3.58 |
| 33 | Mistral Large OSS Mistral | 146 | $5.00 |
| 34 | O3 OpenAI | 135 | $6.50 |
| 35 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | 132 | $6.00 |
| 36 | GPT-4.1 OpenAI | 118 | $6.50 |
| 37 | GPT-5 OpenAI | 111 | $7.81 |
| 38 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | 106 | $7.81 |
| 39 | Command A OSS Cohere | 98 | $8.13 |
| 40 | Command R+ (08-2024) OSS Cohere | 97 | $8.13 |
| 41 | Claude Opus 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | 86 | $10.00 |
| 42 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | 82 | $10.94 |
| 43 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) Anthropic | 72 | $12.00 |
| 44 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | 66 | $12.00 |
| 45 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI | 60 | $12.50 |
| 46 | Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) Anthropic | 45 | $20.00 |
| 47 | o1 OpenAI | 17 | $48.75 |
| 48 | O3 Pro OpenAI | 14 | $65.00 |
| 49 | Claude Opus 4 Anthropic | 14 | $60.00 |
| 50 | GPT-5 Pro OpenAI | 10 | $93.75 |
| 51 | GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI | 7 | $131.25 |