Which model for the job.
Eight things people pay a model to do, each priced in the units of the work rather than in tokens (September 2026 data, recomputed daily across 212 providers). A model that is cheap to prompt and dear to answer is right for one of these jobs and wrong for the next, which only shows once the page knows the shape of the work.
Best AI model for summarising documents
Cheapest today: GLM-5.3-Flash
from $0.012 per 1,000 pagesview →
Best AI model for answering support questions
Cheapest today: Mercury 2.5
from $0.0092 per 1,000 repliesview →
Best AI model for writing and editing copy
Cheapest today: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
from $0.012 per 1,000 piecesview →
Best AI model for pulling data out of forms
Cheapest today: GLM-5.3-Flash
from $0.028 per 1,000 formsview →
Best AI model for translating content
Cheapest today: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
from $0.013 per 1,000 pagesview →
Best AI model for sorting and tagging
Cheapest today: GLM-5.3-Flash
from $0.055 per 10,000 itemsview →
Best AI model for writing and reviewing code
Cheapest today: Mistral Nemo
from $0.189 per 1,000 tasksview →
Best AI model for a chat assistant
Cheapest today: Mistral Nemo
from $0.069 per 1,000 conversationsview →