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Long context: the cheapest models

Models with large context windows for long documents and repos.

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.
  • Long context is a capability, not a job: these are models tagged long-context 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: 289 of 694 models

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#ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1MBlended / 1MPrice date
1ILing 3.0 TinyInclusionai$0.015$0.045$0.02210 Nov 2026
2SExtractScaledown$0.040$0$0.03010 Nov 2026
3SSummarizeScaledown$0.040$0$0.03010 Nov 2026
4ILing 3.0 FlashInclusionai$0.021$0.063$0.03210 Nov 2026
5NNex-N2.5-MiniNex Agi$0.025$0.100$0.04410 Nov 2026
6Z.ai (Zhipu) logoGLM 5.3 FlashZ Ai$0.040$0.078$0.05010 Nov 2026
7Qwen logoQwen3.7 FlashQwen$0.030$0.130$0.05510 Nov 2026
8IMercury 2.5Inception$0.040$0.150$0.0686 Nov 2026
9ILing 3.1 FlashInclusionai$0.045$0.135$0.06810 Nov 2026
10PLaguna XS 2.1Poolside$0.060$0.120$0.07529 Oct 2026
11Google logoGemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.080$0.100$0.08510 Nov 2026
12Google logoGemma 4 26B A4B ITCf$0.080$0.100$0.08510 Nov 2026
13USolar Mini 4Upstage$0.050$0.200$0.08810 Nov 2026
14PTernary Bonsai 2 9BPrism Ml$0.080$0.130$0.09210 Nov 2026
15NVIDIA logoNemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA$0.070$0.200$0.10310 Nov 2026
16NVIDIA logoNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA$0.060$0.240$0.10510 Nov 2026
17Amazon logoNova Lite 1.0Amazon$0.060$0.240$0.10510 Nov 2026
18DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek$0.043$0.300$0.10810 Nov 2026
19LLFM3-1.7BLiquid$0.080$0.200$0.11010 Nov 2026
20DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 FlashAccounts$0.090$0.180$0.11310 Nov 2026
21DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek$0.090$0.180$0.11310 Nov 2026
22PLaguna S 2.1Poolside$0.090$0.180$0.11329 Oct 2026
23Qwen logoQwen3.5-FlashQwen$0.065$0.260$0.11410 Nov 2026
24NNex-N2.5-ProNex Agi$0.075$0.250$0.11910 Nov 2026
25Meta logoMuse Spark 1.2 ContributorMeta$0.100$0.200$0.12510 Nov 2026

Showing the top 25 of 289 ranked models.

Not ranked, and why (405)

No confirmed price in the market tables in the last 30 days 394

And 274 more.

Priced per image, song or other unit, not per token 10
Listed at $0 per token (free routes are rate limited or priced another way) 1

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.