Cheapest AI models by input price
447 models, updated 2026-06-21. Figures in USD per 1M tokens, sourced from public APIs.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input | Output | Reason | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Mini Code | Cohere | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cerebras-Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Cerebras-Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Groq-Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8 | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Devstral Small 2 | Mistral | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Uncensored (free) | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0 | $0 | ||
| North Mini Code (free) | OpenRouter | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 4 31B (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lyria 3 Clip Preview | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Lyria 3 Pro Preview | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0 | $0 | ||
| LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0 | $0 | ||
| LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free) | OpenRouter | 65,536 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Nex-N2-Pro (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) | OpenRouter | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) | OpenRouter | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| gpt-oss-120b (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| gpt-oss-20b (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free Models Router | OpenRouter | 200,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Owl Alpha | OpenRouter | 1,048,756 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Laguna M.1 (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Laguna XS.2 (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) | OpenRouter | 262,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Laguna M.1 | Poolside | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Laguna XS.2 | Poolside | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GLM-4.5-Flash | Z.AI | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GLM-4.7-Flash | Z.AI | 200,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ling-2.6-flash | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.01 | $0.03 | ✓ | |
| Granite 4.0 Micro | OpenRouter | 131,000 | $0.017 | $0.112 | ||
| Mistral Nemo | Mistral | 128,000 | $0.02 | $0.03 | ✓ | |
| text-embedding-3-small | OpenAI | 8,191 | $0.02 | $0 | ||
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.02 | $0.03 | ✓ | |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | OpenRouter | 60,000 | $0.027 | $0.201 | ||
| GPT OSS 20B | Groq | 131,072 | $0.029 | $0.14 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama Prompt Guard 2 22M | Groq | 512 | $0.03 | $0.03 | ||
| LFM2-24B-A2B | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0.03 | $0.12 | ||
| Qwen3-ASR Flash | Alibaba | 53,248 | $0.035 | $0.035 | ||
| Nova Micro 1.0 | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.035 | $0.14 | ✓ | |
| Command R7B | Cohere | 128,000 | $0.0375 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| Command R7B Arabic | Cohere | 128,000 | $0.0375 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| GPT OSS 120B | Groq | 131,072 | $0.039 | $0.18 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.04 | $0.1 | ✓ | |
| Prompt Guard 2 86M | Groq | 512 | $0.04 | $0.04 | ||
| Ministral 3B (latest) | Mistral | 128,000 | $0.04 | $0.04 | ✓ | |
| Llama 3 8B Lunaris | OpenRouter | 8,192 | $0.04 | $0.05 | ||
| Trinity Mini | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.045 | $0.15 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.04815 | $0.19305 | ✓ | |
| Qwen Flash | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.05 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen Turbo | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.05 | $0.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama 3.1 8B | Groq | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.08 | ✓ | |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | 400,000 | $0.05 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 3 12B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| Gemma 3 4B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.1 | ||
| Granite 4.1 8B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.1 | ✓ | |
| Mistral Small 3 | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0.05 | $0.08 | ||
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.05 | $0.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | OpenRouter | 80,000 | $0.0509 | $0.335 | ||
| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | 262,144 | $0.06 | $0.33 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | OpenRouter | 300,000 | $0.06 | $0.24 | ✓ | |
| Gemma 3n 4B | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0.06 | $0.12 | ||
| MythoMax 13B | OpenRouter | 4,096 | $0.06 | $0.06 | ||
| Hy3 preview | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.063 | $0.21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phi 4 | OpenRouter | 16,384 | $0.065 | $0.14 | ||
| Qwen3.5-Flash | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0.065 | $0.26 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen-Omni Turbo | Alibaba | 32,768 | $0.07 | $0.27 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.07 | $0.27 | ✓ | |
| GLM-4.7-FlashX | Z.AI | 200,000 | $0.07 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | 1,048,576 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ||
| Safety GPT OSS 20B | Groq | 131,072 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ling-2.6-1T | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.075 | $0.625 | ✓ | |
| Ring-2.6-1T | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.075 | $0.625 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.075 | $0.2 | ✓ | |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 32B | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.28 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 3 27B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.16 | ✓ | |
| Phi 4 Mini Instruct | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.08 | $0.35 | ||
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.5 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.09 | $1.1 | ✓ | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | 1,000,000 | $0.09 | $0.18 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.09 | $0.45 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.09 | $0.1 | ✓ | |
| Step 3.5 Flash | StepFun AI | 256,000 | $0.09 | $0.3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking) | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.0975 | $0.78 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen2.5-Omni 7B | Alibaba | 32,768 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ |