The LLM Price Index
Every major large language model, normalized to dollars per million tokens. Scored on value, cheapness, and frontier capability. Independent, automated, refreshed daily.
What this is
The LLM Price Index is a live, independently maintained price comparison for every large language model offered through the OpenRouter catalog. Input and output pricing is normalized to dollars per million tokens, blended 3:1 to produce a single comparable figure, and scored 0–10 on three axes: value, cheapness, and frontier capability. The cheapest paid model right now is Ling-2.6-flash at $0.015 per million tokens (3:1 blended).
Owl Alpha
9.0/10Owl Alpha is a high-performance foundation model designed for agentic workloads. Natively supports tool use, and long-context tasks, with strong performance in…
DeepSeek V4 Flash (free)
9.0/10DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context…
Ling-2.6-flash
8.5/10Ling-2.6-flash is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI with 104B total parameters and 7.4B active parameters, designed for real-world agents that require…
Nemotron 3 Super (free)
8.5/10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in…
MiniMax M2.5 (free)
8.2/10MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity. Trained in a diverse range of complex real-world digital working environments,…
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)
8.2/10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a small language MoE model with highest compute efficiency and accuracy for developers to build…
DeepSeek V4 Flash
8.2/10DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context…
Granite 4.1 8B
7.9/10Granite 4.1 8B is a dense, decoder-only 8-billion-parameter language model from IBM, part of the Granite 4.1 family. It supports a 131K-token…
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)
7.8/10LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is a compact, high-performance instruction-tuned model built for fast on-device AI. It delivers strong chat quality in a 1.2B parameter footprint,…
gpt-oss-20b (free)
7.8/10gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with…
GLM 4.5 Air (free)
7.8/10GLM-4.5-Air is the lightweight variant of our latest flagship model family, also purpose-built for agent-centric applications. Like GLM-4.5, it adopts the Mixture-of-Experts…
Nemotron 3 Super
7.6/10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in…
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
7.6/10MiMo-V2.5-Pro is Xiaomi’s flagship model, delivering strong performance in general agentic capabilities, complex software engineering, and long-horizon tasks, with top rankings on…
Ling-2.6-1T
7.6/10Ling-2.6-1T is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI and the company’s trillion-parameter flagship, designed for real-world agents that require fast execution and…
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
7.5/10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a small language MoE model with highest compute efficiency and accuracy for developers to build…
Uncensored (free)
7.5/10Venice Uncensored Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition is a fine-tuned variant of Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501, developed by dphn.ai in collaboration with Venice.ai. This model…
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)
7.5/10The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out).…
GLM 4.7 Flash
7.4/10As a 30B-class SOTA model, GLM-4.7-Flash offers a new option that balances performance and efficiency. It is further optimized for agentic coding…
Step 3.5 Flash
7.3/10Step 3.5 Flash is StepFun's most capable open-source foundation model. Built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, it selectively activates…
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
7.3/10Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is a multilingual, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model based on the Qwen3-235B architecture, with 22B active parameters per forward pass. It is…
Granite 4.0 Micro
7.3/10Granite-4.0-H-Micro is a 3B parameter from the Granite 4 family of models. These models are the latest in a series of models…
gpt-oss-20b
7.2/10gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with…
MiMo-V2-Flash
7.2/10MiMo-V2-Flash is an open-source foundation language model developed by Xiaomi. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 309B total parameters and 15B active…
Mistral Nemo
7.2/10A 12B parameter model with a 128k token context length built by Mistral in collaboration with NVIDIA. The model is multilingual, supporting…
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
7.1/10Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version is fast and…
Qwen3.7 Max
7.1/10Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text input and output and is designed for agent-centric workloads, with…
LFM2-24B-A2B
7.0/10LFM2-24B-A2B is the largest model in the LFM2 family of hybrid architectures designed for efficient on-device deployment. Built as a 24B parameter…
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
6.9/10Qwen2.5 7B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge…
Nova Micro 1.0
6.9/10Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses in the Amazon Nova family of models at…
GLM 4 32B
6.8/10GLM 4 32B is a cost-effective foundation language model. It can efficiently perform complex tasks and has significantly enhanced capabilities in tool…
Devstral Small 1.1
6.6/10Devstral Small 1.1 is a 24B parameter open-weight language model for software engineering agents, developed by Mistral AI in collaboration with All…
Qwen-Plus
6.6/10Qwen-Plus, based on the Qwen2.5 foundation model, is a 131K context model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B
6.5/10A sophisticated text-based Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 21B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional multimodal understanding and generation through…
DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1
6.4/10DeepSeek V3.1 Nex-N1 is the flagship release of the Nex-N1 series — a post-trained model designed to highlight agent autonomy, tool use,…
MiniMax M2.5
6.4/10MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity. Trained in a diverse range of complex real-world digital working environments,…
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
6.3/10The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out).…
MiniMax M2.1
6.2/10MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated…
Solar Pro 3
6.2/10Solar Pro 3 is Upstage's powerful Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. With 102B total parameters and 12B active parameters per forward pass, it…
MiMo-V2-Pro
6.2/10MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios. It…
MiniMax M2.7
6.1/10MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement. Built to actively participate in its own…
GLM 5.1
6.0/10GLM-5.1 delivers a major leap in coding capability, with particularly significant gains in handling long-horizon tasks. Unlike previous models built around minute-level…
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
5.8/10Llama 3.2 1B is a 1-billion-parameter language model focused on efficiently performing natural language tasks, such as summarization, dialogue, and multilingual text…
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
5.8/10DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is an experimental large language model released by DeepSeek as an intermediate step between V3.1 and future architectures. It introduces DeepSeek…
Devstral 2 2512
5.7/10Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model supporting…
Mistral Small 3
5.7/10Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license,…
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
5.7/10Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It…
GLM 5
5.6/10GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers…
Palmyra X5
5.5/10Palmyra X5 is Writer's most advanced model, purpose-built for building and scaling AI agents across the enterprise. It delivers industry-leading speed and…
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Price drops, new models, deprecations
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Three axes, one overall score
- Value (35%) — capability per dollar. Context length, vision, tools, and structured-output support divided by log-scaled blended price.
- Cheapness (35%) — raw affordability. Free models score 10. Paid models use an inverse log curve anchored at $0.01 / Mtok.
- Frontier (30%) — how close to the state of the art. Recent releases, long context windows, and premium pricing all contribute.
Blended price formula
- Most production workloads are input-heavy, so the index uses a 3:1 blended price:
(input × 0.75) + (output × 0.25). - All prices are normalized to dollars per million tokens. OpenRouter publishes per-token figures which we multiply by 1,000,000 before display.
Where does the pricing data come from?
Every model and price on this page is sourced from OpenRouter's public models API, which aggregates pricing directly from model providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, and dozens of others. The pipeline re-fetches and re-scores the entire catalog once per day.
Why normalize to $/million tokens?
Model providers publish prices in inconsistent units — per 1K tokens, per million tokens, per character, sometimes per request. Comparing them directly is error-prone. Dollars per million tokens is the industry's most common reporting unit and makes cross-provider comparisons immediate and honest.
What does "3:1 blended" mean?
Most production LLM workloads are input-heavy — context, RAG retrievals, system prompts — while output is comparatively short. A 3:1 input:output ratio is the informal industry convention for producing a single number that reflects typical cost: (input × 0.75) + (output × 0.25). Your actual ratio may differ; always check both input and output columns for workloads with long generations.
What's the cheapest LLM right now?
The cheapest paid model as of the latest scan is Ling-2.6-flash from Inclusionai at $0.015 per million tokens (3:1 blended). Sort by "Cheapest" above for the full ranking. Many providers also offer free-tier variants of their models, which score a perfect 10 on the cheapness axis.
Is this affiliated with OpenRouter or any provider?
No. MegaOne AI is independent. OpenRouter is used as a public data source because their models API is the most complete and up-to-date LLM catalog available, but this directory is not operated by OpenRouter and we rate all models — including ones that compete with one another.
How often does the price index update?
A full re-fetch, re-score, and daily snapshot runs once per 24 hours. Snapshots are written to a history table so we can build price-over-time charts and detect drops. New models typically appear within 24 hours of being added to OpenRouter.
Is it free to use?
Yes. Browsing, filtering, sorting, and searching the entire price index is free. The weekly email briefing is free. There is no account required and no paywall.