Cheapest LLM API.
Prices checked
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct at Inference leads 345 models at $0.01 per M tokens, checked .
Top 10
all 392 models- 1
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Runs it themselves
Inference · 60k context · $0.01 in / $0.01 out$0.01/M tokens - 2
gpt-oss-20b
Resells
TrustedRouter · 131k context · $0.01 in / $0.05 out$0.02/M tokens - 3
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Runs it themselves
Inference · 131k context · $0.02 in / $0.02 out$0.02/M tokens - 4
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Runs it themselves
Helicone · 131k context · $0.02 in / $0.03 out$0.02/M tokens - 5
Mistral Nemo
Lower precision (fp8)
Eden AI · 131k context · $0.02 in / $0.03 out$0.02/M tokens - 6
Ling 3.0 Flash
OpenRouter · 262k context · $0.02 in / $0.06 out$0.03/M tokens - 7
Qwen3.7 Flash
Regional price
Eden AI · 1M context · $0.02 in / $0.08 out$0.04/M tokens - 8
Ministral 3 3B
Runs it themselves
Azure Cognitive Services · 131k context · $0.04 in / $0.04 out$0.04/M tokens - 9
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Resells
NanoGPT · 262k context · $0.05 in / $0.01 out$0.04/M tokens - 10
Granite 4.0 H Micro
Cloudflare Workers AI · 131k context · $0.02 in / $0.11 out$0.04/M tokens
How we count
Every text model sold by 3 or more providers, holding 32k tokens of context or more, at the cheapest price we can account for. 3 providers is the floor that keeps this list from filling up with models almost nobody sells. 345 models qualify, starting at $0.01 against a typical $1. Prices are per million tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, at each provider's standard rate.
A price below the maker's is listed only when the provider says why.
- Runs it themselves
- The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
- Resells
- The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Lower precision
- The open weights, served at a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
- Regional price
- A price list for one region, lower than the international one. A region, not a deal.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest of the text model APIs right now?
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct at Inference, $0.01 in and $0.01 out per million tokens, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Which lab shows up most in this ranking?
- Meta trained 3 of the top 10 models here.
- How is this ranked, and how current is it?
- Every row is the cheapest price for that model with an account behind it: the maker's own, a price below it with a published reason, or a price at or above it. A price below the maker's own with nothing to explain it is listed on the model's page and not ranked. Prices are read every 3 days from 237 providers' public catalogs, per million tokens and blended 3 in : 1 out. Last refresh: 31 Oct 2026.