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Cheapest model / job
General assistants: the cheapest models
All-purpose agents that plan and carry out many kinds of task.
How this page ranks
- Ranked by blended price per million tokens: three parts input to one part output, at the OpenRouter list price for the model. Lowest first. Ties go to the lower input price.
- A model counts for this job when its taxonomy v2 classification names general assistants, or its old category maps to it.
- Each model must list text output on OpenRouter or on its own record.
- Prices and scores come from the market tables only, each with the day it is for. The price on a model's own record is not used.
- Missing data never ranks. A model with no confirmed price in the last 30 days, a price in another unit, a $0 listing or unknown inputs and outputs is listed apart, with the reason.
Market data as of 10 Nov 2026. Prices: OpenRouter models API (official).
Ranked: 304 of 927 models
Best for general assistants →| # | Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended / 1M | Price date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructWorkers Ai | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 3 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct AWQWorkers Ai | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 4 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct fp8Cf | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 5 | SExtractScaledown | $0.040 | $0 | $0.030 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 6 | ILing 3.0 FlashInclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.032 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 7 |  Granite 4.0 H MicroCf | $0.017 | $0.112 | $0.041 | 25 Oct 2026 |
| 8 |  GLM 5.3 FlashZ Ai | $0.040 | $0.078 | $0.050 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 9 |  GPT OSS 20BAccounts | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 10 | GPT OSS 20BCf | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 11 | GPT-OSS 20B TEETee | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 12 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 13 |  Qwen3.7 FlashQwen | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 14 |  Mistral Small 3Mistral | $0.050 | $0.080 | $0.058 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 15 |  Gemma 3 4BGoogle | $0.050 | $0.100 | $0.063 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 16 |  Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | $0.037 | $0.150 | $0.066 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 17 | IMercury 2.5Inception | $0.040 | $0.150 | $0.068 | 6 Nov 2026 |
| 18 | ILing 3.1 FlashInclusionai | $0.045 | $0.135 | $0.068 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 19 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | $0.027 | $0.201 | $0.071 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 20 | Gemma 3 12B ITWorkers Ai | $0.050 | $0.150 | $0.075 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 21 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | $0.080 | $0.100 | $0.085 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 22 | Gemma 4 26B A4B ITCf | $0.080 | $0.100 | $0.085 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 23 | GMythoMax 13BGryphe | $0.080 | $0.110 | $0.087 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 24 | USolar Mini 4Upstage | $0.050 | $0.200 | $0.088 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 25 |  Phi 4Microsoft | $0.070 | $0.140 | $0.088 | 10 Nov 2026 |
Showing the top 25 of 304 ranked models.
Not ranked, and why (623)
No confirmed price in the market tables in the last 30 days 621
- Agnes 1.5 Lite Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Agnes 1.5 Pro Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AI21 Jamba 1.5 Mini Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AionLabs: Aion-1.0 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AionLabs: Aion-1.0-Mini Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AionLabs: Aion-2.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Ambient Large Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Anubis 70B v1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Anubis 70B v1.1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Arcee AI: Maestro Reasoning Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Arcee AI: Spotlight Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- baichuan-m2-32b Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Baidu: CoBuddy (free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- baidu/ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- bevformer Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE M3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Small EN v1.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Bielik 11B v2.6 Instruct Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Bielik 11B v3.0 Instruct Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 3 Haiku No confirmed price for anthropic/claude-3-haiku
- Claude 3.5 Haiku Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Max Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Medium Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 4.7 Opus Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Fable 5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Fable 5.1 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Haiku Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.1 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 3.7 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 4 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- claude-code Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude-Haiku-3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude-Haiku-3.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude-Sonnet-3.7 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Coding Router Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Coding Router High Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cogito v2.1 671B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere Command A Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere Command R Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere Command R 08-2024 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere Command R+ Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere Command R+ 08-2024 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere: Command R Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Compound Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepgram Aura 2 (ES) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepgram Nova 3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepHermes-3 Mistral 24B (Preview) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek Prover v2 671B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Llama 70B Abliterated Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Qwen Abliterated Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek Reasoner Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3 (Turbo) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3 0324 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.1 TEE Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.2 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Flash (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro Cheaper Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro Cheaper (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro Thinking TEE Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek-OCR Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek-V3.2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-EL Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro-EL Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepseek/Deepseek-Math-V2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepseek/DeepSeek-V3.2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DMind-1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DMind-1-Mini Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Dolphin 72b Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Dots3-Note Preview (free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Doubao-Seed-1.8 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
And 501 more.
Priced per image, song or other unit, not per token 2
- Auto Router (Beta) Priced per unknown
- studiovoice Priced per unknown
Automated from dated market data, not Enterprise DNA tested picks. Check the price and terms with the provider before you commit. Methodology: how the model numbers work.