Cheapest AI Models
0 free + 51 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.
0
Free Models
16
Under $0.50/M
10
$0.50–$2/M
12
$10+/M (Premium)
Best Quality at Each Price Point
All Paid Models by Price
Ranked from cheapest to most expensive. Blended price per 1M tokens.
| # | Model | Blended $/M | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Nemo OSS Mistral | $0.03 | 72.0 |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.03 | 68.0 |
| 3 | Nova Micro 1.0 Amazon | $0.11 | 68.0 |
| 4 | Command R7B (12-2024) OSS Cohere | $0.12 | 65.0 |
| 5 | Phi 4 OSS Microsoft | $0.12 | 74.0 |
| 6 | Reka Flash 3 Reka | $0.18 | 74.0 |
| 7 | Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | $0.20 | 72.0 |
| 8 | Llama 4 Scout OSS Meta | $0.25 | 79.0 |
| 9 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.27 | 71.0 |
| 10 | GPT-5 Nano OpenAI | $0.31 | 78.0 |
| 11 | GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI | $0.33 | 75.0 |
| 12 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Google | $0.33 | 74.0 |
| 13 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct OSS Alibaba | $0.39 | 71.0 |
| 14 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct OSS Meta | $0.40 | 77.0 |
| 15 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI | $0.49 | 74.0 |
| 16 | Command R (08-2024) OSS Cohere | $0.49 | 73.0 |
| 17 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B OSS Mistral | $0.50 | 72.0 |
| 18 | DeepSeek V3 OSS DeepSeek | $0.65 | 76.0 |
| 19 | Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta | $0.65 | 76.0 |
| 20 | DeepSeek V3.2 OSS DeepSeek | $0.74 | 77.0 |
| 21 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct OSS Alibaba | $0.92 | 82.0 |
| 22 | Sonar Perplexity | $1.00 | 74.0 |
| 23 | GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI | $1.30 | 75.0 |
| 24 | Qwen3 235B A22B OSS Alibaba | $1.48 | 87.0 |
| 25 | R1 0528 OSS DeepSeek | $1.74 | 83.0 |
| 26 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | $1.95 | 78.0 |
| 27 | DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek | $2.05 | 85.0 |
| 28 | Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | $2.60 | 78.0 |
| 29 | Qwen3 Max OSS Alibaba | $3.12 | 85.0 |
| 30 | O4 Mini OpenAI | $3.58 | 90.0 |
| 31 | o3 Mini OpenAI | $3.58 | 84.0 |
| 32 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | $4.00 | 76.0 |
| 33 | Mistral Large OSS Mistral | $5.00 | 73.0 |
| 34 | O3 OpenAI | $6.50 | 88.0 |
| 35 | GPT-4.1 OpenAI | $6.50 | 77.0 |
| 36 | GPT-5 OpenAI | $7.81 | 87.0 |
| 37 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | $7.81 | 83.0 |
| 38 | Command A OSS Cohere | $8.13 | 80.0 |
| 39 | Command R+ (08-2024) OSS Cohere | $8.13 | 79.0 |
| 40 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | $10.94 | 90.0 |
| 41 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | $12.00 | 86.0 |
| 42 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | $12.00 | 79.0 |
| 43 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | $12.00 | 79.0 |
| 44 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI | $12.50 | 75.0 |
| 45 | Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic | $20.00 | 86.0 |
| 46 | o1 OpenAI | $48.75 | 84.0 |
| 47 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | $60.00 | 89.0 |
| 48 | Claude Opus 4 Anthropic | $60.00 | 84.0 |
| 49 | O3 Pro OpenAI | $65.00 | 88.0 |
| 50 | GPT-5 Pro OpenAI | $93.75 | 90.0 |
| 51 | GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI | $131.25 | 93.0 |