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Low price: the cheapest models
Models tagged as low price per token.
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.
- Low price is a capability, not a job: these are models tagged cheap on their record.
- 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: 222 of 589 models
Best for low price →| # | Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended / 1M | Price date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ILing 3.0 TinyInclusionai | $0.015 | $0.045 | $0.022 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 2 |  Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 3 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructWorkers Ai | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 4 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct AWQWorkers Ai | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 5 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct fp8Cf | $0.020 | $0.040 | $0.025 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 6 |  Mistral NemoMistral | $0.029 | $0.030 | $0.029 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 7 | SExtractScaledown | $0.040 | $0 | $0.030 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 8 | SSummarizeScaledown | $0.040 | $0 | $0.030 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 9 | ILing 3.0 FlashInclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.032 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 10 |  Granite 4.0 H MicroCf | $0.017 | $0.112 | $0.041 | 25 Oct 2026 |
| 11 | IGranite 4.0 MicroIbm Granite | $0.017 | $0.112 | $0.041 | 25 Oct 2026 |
| 12 | Llama 3 8B LunarisSao10k | $0.040 | $0.050 | $0.042 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 13 | NNex-N2.5-MiniNex Agi | $0.025 | $0.100 | $0.044 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 14 |  GLM 5.3 FlashZ Ai | $0.040 | $0.078 | $0.050 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 15 |  GPT OSS 20BAccounts | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 16 | GPT OSS 20BCf | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 17 | GPT-OSS 20B TEETee | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 18 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 19 |  Qwen3.7 FlashQwen | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 20 | Mistral Small 3Mistral | $0.050 | $0.080 | $0.058 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 21 | ISchematron V2 TurboInference Net | $0.030 | $0.150 | $0.060 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 22 |  Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | $0.035 | $0.140 | $0.061 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 23 |  Gemma 3 4BGoogle | $0.050 | $0.100 | $0.063 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 24 |  Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | $0.037 | $0.150 | $0.066 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 25 | IMercury 2.5Inception | $0.040 | $0.150 | $0.068 | 6 Nov 2026 |
Showing the top 25 of 222 ranked models.
Not ranked, and why (367)
No confirmed price in the market tables in the last 30 days 365
- Agnes 1.5 Lite Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Agnes 1.5 Pro Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Amoral Gemma3 27B v2 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
- Arcee AI: Spotlight Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AutoGLM-Phone-9B-Multilingual Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- baichuan-m2-32b Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- baidu/ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Base EN v1.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Large EN v1.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE M3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Reranker Base Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Small EN v1.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude 3 Haiku No confirmed price for anthropic/claude-3-haiku
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Haiku Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude-Haiku-3 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Coder Large Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Codestral (latest) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Codestral (latest) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Codestral 2508 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Coding Router Low Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Coding Router Medium Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Cohere: Command R Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepHermes-3 Mistral 24B (Preview) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek Flash Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek OCR 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 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 Nex N1 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 Speciale 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 Cheaper Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Pro Cheaper (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (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-V3.2-fast Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-EL Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral 2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral 2 (latest) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral 2 123B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral Medium Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral Small Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral Small 1.1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral Small 2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Devstral Small 2505 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DistilBERT SST-2 INT8 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
- Doubao-Seed-1.8 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Doubao-Seed-2.0-mini Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Doubao-Seed-Code Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- E5 Mistral 7B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B No confirmed price for baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-424b-a47b
- ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Evayale 70b Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 1.5 Flash Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini Flash-Lite Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini-2.0-Flash Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 3 12B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 3 27B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 3 4B (Pretrained) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 3 4B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 3n 4B No confirmed price for google/gemma-3n-e4b-it
- Gemma 4 12B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 26B A4B Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 26B A4B Uncensored TEE Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 31B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 31B (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 31B Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 31B Thinking TEE Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- gemma 4 31B turbo TEE Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 E2B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 4 E4B IT Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma Sea Lion V4 27B It Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiGuard LLM Guardrails 300M Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Base Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Large Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Multi Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Multi Large Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Privacy Filter PII (Multi) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4 32B 0414 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4 9B 0414 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.5 (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.5 Air (Thinking) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.6 Original Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.6 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.6V Flash Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.7 Flash Original Not matched to an OpenRouter model
And 245 more.
Priced per image, song or other unit, not per token 2
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) Priced per unknown
- Nano-Banana 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.