Find the Cheapest & Best-Fit LLM API

Real-time tracking of 63 providers, 540 models' pricing, capabilities & context window. Covering international and Chinese models, auto-updated daily at 04:00.

Tracked Models 540
Free Models 56
Chinese Provider Models 158

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Best Value Models

Filters to models with AA Intelligence Index 40 or higher, then ranks by intelligence per dollar (AA score ÷ input price)

# Model Provider Input Benchmark
1 Upstage: Solar Pro 4 🇰🇷 Upstage $0.030 AA Index 42
2 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 🇨🇳 DeepSeek $0.060 AA Index 52
3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Multimodal 🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu) $0.075 AA Index 57
4 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 🇨🇳 DeepSeek $0.080 AA Index 42
5 Tencent: Hy3 🇨🇳 Tencent $0.083 AA Index 42

Strongest Models

Ranked by Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a cross-domain intelligence metric

# Model Provider Input AA Index
1 Claude Opus 5 🇺🇸 Anthropic $5.00 63
2 Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 🇺🇸 Anthropic $10.00 62
3 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol 🇺🇸 OpenAI $2.00 61
4 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 🇺🇸 xAI $2.00 61
5 MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 🇨🇳 Moonshot AI $3.00 60

Cheapest Input Price

Cost in USD per million input tokens (excluding free models)

# Model Provider Input Output
1 inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash 🇨🇳 InclusionAI $0.010 $0.030
2 IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro 🇺🇸 IBM Granite $0.017 $0.112
3 Mistral: Mistral Nemo 🇫🇷 Mistral AI $0.019 $0.030
4 Ling-3.0-flash 🇨🇳 InclusionAI $0.021 $0.063
5 OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (batch) 🇺🇸 OpenAI $0.025 $0.200

Fastest Output

Ranked by Artificial Analysis measured output speed (tokens/sec)

# Model Provider t/s
1 Inception: Mercury 2 🇺🇸 Inception 963
2 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 🇺🇸 Google 395
3 Ling-3.0-flash 🇨🇳 InclusionAI 383
4 Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 🇺🇸 Google 355
5 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash 🇺🇸 Google 338

Free Models (56)

Models with $0 input price. Some may still charge for output — click to view full pricing details.

Model Provider Output $/M Context
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking (free) 🇺🇸 Arcee AI Free 262K
Baidu Qianfan: CoBuddy (free) 🇨🇳 Baidu Free 131K
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast (free) 🇨🇳 Baidu Free 66K
Cohere: North Mini Code (free) 🇨🇦 Cohere Free 256K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash (free) 🇨🇳 DeepSeek Free 1.05M

Top Providers

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Models
108
Cheapest Input
$0.025 /M tokens

🇨🇳 Qwen (Alibaba)

Models
57
Cheapest Input
$0.030 /M tokens

🇺🇸 Google

Models
51
Cheapest Input
$0.050 /M tokens

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Models
36
Cheapest Input
$0.250 /M tokens

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

Models
26
Cheapest Input
$0.019 /M tokens

🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu)

Models
19
Cheapest Input
$0.060 /M tokens

🇨🇳 DeepSeek

Models
18
Cheapest Input
$0.030 /M tokens

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Models
17
Cheapest Input
$0.040 /M tokens

Last update: 2026-08-26 · Prices in USD, for reference only. Please verify with official sources.