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Cheapest AI models that are still good
Cheap is easy; cheap and usable is not. Everything here clears a minimum quality bar before price ranking kicks in.
Top 20
Cheapest input price per million tokens among models that clear our quality bar.
| # | Model | In $/M | Out $/M | Context | WM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upstage: Solar Pro 4 Upstage | $0.030 | $0.120 | 524K | 71 |
| 2 | OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano Openai | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K | 70 |
| 3 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B Google | $0.070 | $0.340 | 262K | 56 |
| 4 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 Deepseek | $0.074 | $0.148 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 5 | OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano Openai | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M | 40 |
| 6 | Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air Z Ai | $0.130 | $0.850 | 131K | 73 |
| 7 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M | 73 |
| 8 | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 Mistral | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K | 45 |
| 9 | Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 Mistral | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K | 40 |
| 10 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Alibaba | $0.163 | $1.30 | 262K | 54 |
| 11 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash Stepfun | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K | 64 |
| 12 | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano Openai | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K | 70 |
| 13 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Openai | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M | 87 |
| 14 | Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 Mistral | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K | 42 |
| 15 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 Minimax | $0.220 | $0.900 | 205K | 79 |
| 16 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking Arcee Ai | $0.220 | $0.850 | 262K | 55 |
| 17 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 Alibaba | $0.230 | $2.30 | 262K | 46 |
| 18 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Google Ai Studio | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M | 53 |
| 19 | Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Pro Nex Agi | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K | 78 |
| 20 | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini Openai | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K | 55 |
How this list is built
Cheapest input price per million tokens among models that clear our quality bar. Prices come from live host listings, not marketing pages, and every model here is currently being served by at least one provider. The order changes when prices or benchmark results change.