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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 writing and editing, 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: 139 of 418 models
Best for writing and editing →| # | 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 |  Mistral NemoMistral | $0.029 | $0.030 | $0.029 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 6 | SSummarizeScaledown | $0.040 | $0 | $0.030 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 7 |  GPT-OSS 20B TEETee | $0.030 | $0.130 | $0.055 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 8 | Mistral Small 3Mistral | $0.050 | $0.080 | $0.058 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 9 | IMercury 2.5Inception | $0.040 | $0.150 | $0.068 | 6 Nov 2026 |
| 10 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructCf | $0.027 | $0.201 | $0.071 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 11 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | $0.027 | $0.201 | $0.071 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 12 |  Gemma 3 12BGoogle | $0.050 | $0.150 | $0.075 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 13 | Gemma 3 12B ITWorkers Ai | $0.050 | $0.150 | $0.075 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 14 |  Hy-MT2-1.8BTencent | $0.044 | $0.177 | $0.077 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 15 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | $0.080 | $0.100 | $0.085 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 16 | GMythoMax 13BGryphe | $0.080 | $0.110 | $0.087 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 17 |  Phi 4Microsoft | $0.070 | $0.140 | $0.088 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 18 | ILing 3.0 Flash VLInclusionai | $0.060 | $0.180 | $0.090 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 19 | Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral | $0.100 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 20 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructCf | $0.050 | $0.330 | $0.120 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 21 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta | $0.050 | $0.330 | $0.120 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 22 | Hy-MT2-30B-A3BTencent | $0.074 | $0.295 | $0.129 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 23 | Hy-MT2-7BTencent | $0.074 | $0.295 | $0.129 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 24 |  Qwen3 32BQwen | $0.080 | $0.280 | $0.130 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 25 | Qwen3 14BQwen | $0.100 | $0.220 | $0.130 | 10 Nov 2026 |
Showing the top 25 of 139 ranked models.
Not ranked, and why (279)
No confirmed price in the market tables in the last 30 days 276
- Agnes 1.5 Lite Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- AionLabs: Aion-2.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Ambient Large 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: 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/ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- BGE Base EN v1.5 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Bielik 11B v2.6 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 Low Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Fable 5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (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 4.8 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Opus Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) 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
- Cohere Command A Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Compound Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Deepgram Aura 2 (EN) 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 OCR Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek R1 Qwen Abliterated Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3 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 Speciale Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V3.2 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) 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
- dracarys-llama-3.1-70b-instruct Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- EVA Llama 3.33 70B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- EVA-LLaMA-3.33-70B-v0.1 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- EVA-Qwen2.5-72B-v0.2 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Evayale 70b Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Free Models Router Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3 Pro Preview Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini 3 Pro Preview Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini Flash Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemini Pro Latest Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Gemma 2 2b It 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 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 Sea Lion V4 27B It Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLiNER2 Multi Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 4.6 Original Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GLM 5.1 Thinking Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT OSS 120B High Throughput Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-3.5-Turbo-Raw Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4 Turbo (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4 Turbo Preview Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4.1 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4o (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4o-Aug Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-4o-mini (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5 Chat Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5 Chat (latest) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5 Mini (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.1 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.1 Chat Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.1 Instant Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.2 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.2-Instant Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.3 Chat Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.3 Chat (latest) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.3-Instant Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.4 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.4 Mini (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.5 (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-6 Astra (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-6 Luna (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- gpt-oss-20b (free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Grayline Qwen3 8B Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Grok 3 Mini Not matched to an OpenRouter model
- Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) Not matched to an OpenRouter model
And 156 more.
Priced per image, song or other unit, not per token 3
- Auto Router (Beta) Priced per unknown
- GPT-5 Image Mini Priced per unknown
- Imagen-3 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.