Cheapest AI Models
0 free + 48 paid LLMs ranked by cost per million tokens. Find the most affordable model for your budget.
Prices shown per 1M tokens. Blended price = (input + 3 × output) / 4, reflecting typical 3:1 output-heavy usage.
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Free Models
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Under $0.50/M
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$0.50–$2/M
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$10+/M (Premium)
Lowest Price at Each Price Point
All Paid Models by Price
Ranked from cheapest to most expensive. Blended price per 1M tokens.
| # | Model | Blended $/M | Quality evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Nemo OSS Mistral | $0.03 | Not published |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.07 | Not published |
| 3 | Nova Micro 1.0 Amazon | $0.11 | Not published |
| 4 | Command R7B (12-2024) OSS Cohere | $0.12 | Not published |
| 5 | Phi 4 OSS Microsoft | $0.12 | Not published |
| 6 | GPT-5 Nano (batch) OpenAI | $0.16 | Not published |
| 7 | GPT-4.1 Nano (batch) OpenAI | $0.16 | Not published |
| 8 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) Google | $0.16 | Not published |
| 9 | Reka Flash 3 Reka | $0.18 | Not published |
| 10 | Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | $0.20 | Not published |
| 11 | GPT-4o-mini (batch) OpenAI | $0.24 | Not published |
| 12 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct OSS Alibaba | $0.39 | Not published |
| 13 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.40 | Not published |
| 14 | Command R (08-2024) OSS Cohere | $0.49 | Not published |
| 15 | Llama 4 Scout OSS Meta | $0.49 | Not published |
| 16 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B OSS Mistral | $0.50 | Not published |
| 17 | Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta | $0.54 | Not published |
| 18 | GPT-4.1 Mini (batch) OpenAI | $0.65 | Not published |
| 19 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.74 | Not published |
| 20 | DeepSeek V3 OSS DeepSeek | $0.75 | Not published |
| 21 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct OSS Alibaba | $0.92 | Not published |
| 22 | DeepSeek V3.2 OSS DeepSeek | $0.93 | Not published |
| 23 | Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) Google | $0.97 | Not published |
| 24 | Sonar Perplexity | $1.00 | Not published |
| 25 | R1 0528 OSS DeepSeek | $1.74 | Not published |
| 26 | O4 Mini OpenAI | $1.79 | Not published |
| 27 | o3 Mini (batch) OpenAI | $1.79 | Not published |
| 28 | Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | $2.00 | Not published |
| 29 | DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek | $2.05 | Not published |
| 30 | Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | $2.60 | Not published |
| 31 | O3 OpenAI | $3.25 | Not published |
| 32 | GPT-4.1 (batch) OpenAI | $3.25 | Not published |
| 33 | GPT-5 (batch) OpenAI | $3.91 | Not published |
| 34 | GPT-4o (batch) OpenAI | $4.06 | Not published |
| 35 | Mistral Large OSS Mistral | $5.00 | Not published |
| 36 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | $5.47 | Not published |
| 37 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | $6.00 | Not published |
| 38 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | $7.81 | Not published |
| 39 | Command A OSS Cohere | $8.13 | Not published |
| 40 | Command R+ (08-2024) OSS Cohere | $8.13 | Not published |
| 41 | Claude Opus 4.5 (batch) Anthropic | $10.00 | Not published |
| 42 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) Anthropic | $12.00 | Not published |
| 43 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | $12.00 | Not published |
| 44 | Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) Anthropic | $20.00 | Not published |
| 45 | GPT-5 Pro (batch) OpenAI | $46.88 | Not published |
| 46 | o1 OpenAI | $48.75 | Not published |
| 47 | O3 Pro OpenAI | $65.00 | Not published |
| 48 | GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) OpenAI | $65.63 | Not published |