Find the Cheapest & Best-Fit LLM API

Real-time tracking of 58 providers, 428 models' pricing, capabilities & context window. Covering international and Chinese models, auto-updated daily at 04:00.

Tracked Models 428

Free Models 44

Chinese Provider Models 130

This site tracks public LLM API pricing and benchmarks with daily updates. Background, sources, and caveats live on the About page →

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	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash	🇨🇳 DeepSeek	$0.077	AA Index 40
2	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Multimodal	🇨🇳 MiniMax	$0.300	AA Index 44
3	Z.ai: GLM 5.2	🇨🇳 Z.ai (Zhipu)	$0.350	AA Index 51
4	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro	🇨🇳 DeepSeek	$0.435	AA Index 44
5	Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro	🇨🇳 Xiaomi	$0.435	AA Index 42

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Strongest Models

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

#	Model	Provider	Input	AA Index
1	Anthropic: Claude Fable 5	🇺🇸 Anthropic	$10.00	60
2	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol	🇺🇸 OpenAI	$5.00	59
3	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8	🇺🇸 Anthropic	$5.00	56
4	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra	🇺🇸 OpenAI	$2.50	55
5	OpenAI: GPT-5.5	🇺🇸 OpenAI	$5.00	55

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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	Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	🇺🇸 Meta	$0.020	$0.030
4	Mistral: Mistral Nemo	🇫🇷 Mistral AI	$0.020	$0.030
5	Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Mini	🇺🇸 Nexa AI	$0.025	$0.100

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Fastest Output

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

#	Model	Provider	t/s
1	Inception: Mercury 2	🇺🇸 Inception	768
2	StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash	🇨🇳 StepFun	369
3	NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)	🇺🇸 NVIDIA	314
4	OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b	🇺🇸 OpenAI	305
5	NVIDIA: Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct	🇺🇸 NVIDIA	301

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Free Models (44)

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