Find the Cheapest & Best-Fit LLM API

Real-time tracking of 66 providers, 620 models' pricing, capabilities & context window. Covering international and Chinese models, auto-updated daily at 04:00.

Tracked Models 620
Free Models 64
Chinese Provider Models 186

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Best Value Models

Filters to models with AA Intelligence Index 40 or higher, then ranks by intelligence per dollar (AA score ÷ input price)

# Model Provider Input Benchmark
1 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Multimodal 🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu) $0.150 AA Index 42
2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu) $0.654 AA Index 45
3 Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash MultimodalVoice 🇺🇸 Google $0.750 AA Index 41
4 Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 MultimodalVoice meta $1.25 AA Index 45
5 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Multimodal 🇺🇸 OpenAI $2.00 AA Index 47

Strongest Models

Ranked by Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a cross-domain intelligence metric

# Model Provider Input AA Index
1 Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 🇺🇸 Anthropic $10.00 53
2 OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra 🇺🇸 OpenAI $10.00 53
3 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 🇺🇸 Anthropic $5.00 51
4 Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 🇺🇸 Anthropic $10.00 50
5 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol 🇺🇸 OpenAI $2.00 47

Cheapest Input Price

Cost in USD per million input tokens (excluding free models)

# Model Provider Input Output
1 inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash 🇨🇳 InclusionAI $0.010 $0.030
2 IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro 🇺🇸 IBM Granite $0.017 $0.112
3 OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b 🇺🇸 OpenAI $0.018 $0.090
4 Mistral: Mistral Nemo 🇫🇷 Mistral AI $0.019 $0.030
5 inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash 🇨🇳 InclusionAI $0.021 $0.063

Fastest Output

Ranked by Artificial Analysis measured output speed (tokens/sec)

# Model Provider t/s
1 Inception: Mercury 2 🇺🇸 Inception 925
2 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 🇺🇸 Google 401
3 Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 🇺🇸 Google 363
4 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash 🇺🇸 Google 322
5 Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking 🇺🇸 Arcee AI 320

Free Models (64)

Models with $0 input price. Some may still charge for output — click to view full pricing details.

Model Provider Output $/M Context
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking (free) 🇺🇸 Arcee AI Free 262K
Baidu Qianfan: CoBuddy (free) 🇨🇳 Baidu Free 131K
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast (free) 🇨🇳 Baidu Free 66K
Cohere: North Mini Code (free) 🇨🇦 Cohere Free 256K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash (free) 🇨🇳 DeepSeek Free 1.05M

Top Providers

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Models
126
Cheapest Input
$0.018 /M tokens

🇨🇳 Qwen (Alibaba)

Models
63
Cheapest Input
$0.030 /M tokens

🇺🇸 Google

Models
54
Cheapest Input
$0.050 /M tokens

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Models
40
Cheapest Input
$0.250 /M tokens

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

Models
32
Cheapest Input
$0.019 /M tokens

🇨🇳 DeepSeek

Models
26
Cheapest Input
$0.030 /M tokens

🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu)

Models
23
Cheapest Input
$0.060 /M tokens

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Models
18
Cheapest Input
$0.040 /M tokens

Last update: 2026-09-22 · Prices in USD, for reference only. Please verify with official sources.