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).
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
5.2/10Qwen3.6-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…
Palmyra X5
5.2/10Palmyra X5 is Writer's most advanced model, purpose-built for building and scaling AI agents across the enterprise. It delivers industry-leading speed and…
Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
5.2/10Hy-MT2-30B-A3B is Tencent's flagship translation model in the Hy-MT2 family. It supports 33 language pairs and five Chinese dialect and minority-language pairs,…
Hy-MT2-7B
5.2/10Hy-MT2-7B is a 7B-parameter translation model from Tencent. It supports 33 language pairs and five Chinese dialect and minority-language pairs, with workflows…
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
5.2/10Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 70B instruct-tuned version is optimized for…
GLM 5 Turbo
5.1/10GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai designed for fast inference and strong performance in agent-driven environments such as OpenClaw scenarios.…
DeepSeek V3 0324
5.1/10DeepSeek V3, a 685B-parameter, mixture-of-experts model, is the latest iteration of the flagship chat model family from the DeepSeek team. It succeeds…
DeepSeek V3
5.1/10DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained…
GLM 4.5 Air
5.1/10GLM-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…
Hy-MT2-1.8B
5.0/10Hy-MT2-1.8B is a compact 1.8B-parameter translation model from Tencent. It supports 33 language pairs and five Chinese dialect and minority-language pairs, with…
Relace Search
5.0/10The relace-search model uses 4-12 `view_file` and `grep` tools in parallel to explore a codebase and return relevant files to the user…
Aion-3.0
4.9/10Aion-3.0 is a multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system from AionLabs, built on the GLM family of models. It uses a collaborative generation…
Cydonia 24B V4.1
4.9/10Uncensored and creative writing model based on Mistral Small 3.2 24B with good recall, prompt adherence, and intelligence.
Aion-2.0
4.8/10Aion-2.0 is a variant of DeepSeek V3.2 optimized for immersive roleplaying and storytelling. It is particularly strong at introducing tension, crises, and…
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
4.7/10Llama 3.2 1B is a 1-billion-parameter language model focused on efficiently performing natural language tasks, such as summarization, dialogue, and multilingual text…
Saba
4.7/10Mistral Saba is a 24B-parameter language model specifically designed for the Middle East and South Asia, delivering accurate and contextually relevant responses…
Reka Flash 3
4.7/10Reka Flash 3 is a general-purpose, instruction-tuned large language model with 21 billion parameters, developed by Reka. It excels at general chat,…
Morph V3 Large
4.6/10Morph's high-accuracy apply model for complex code edits. ~4,500 tokens/sec with 98% accuracy for precise code transformations. The model requires the prompt…
MythoMax 13B
4.6/10One of the highest performing and most popular fine-tunes of Llama 2 13B, with rich descriptions and roleplay. #merge
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
4.5/10Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge…
GLM 4.5
4.5/10GLM-4.5 is our latest flagship foundation model, purpose-built for agent-based applications. It leverages a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supports a context length…
Kimi K2 0711
4.5/10Kimi K2 Instruct is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion…
Relace Apply 3
4.4/10Relace Apply 3 is a specialized code-patching LLM that merges AI-suggested edits straight into your source files. It can apply updates from…
Uncensored
4.2/10Venice 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…
Command R+ (08-2024)
4.0/10command-r-plus-08-2024 is an update of the [Command R+](/models/cohere/command-r-plus) with roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latencies as compared to the previous…
Command A
4.0/10Command A is an open-weights 111B parameter model with a 256k context window focused on delivering great performance across agentic, multilingual, and…
GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch)
3.9/10GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional…
Rocinante 12B
3.9/10Rocinante 12B is designed for engaging storytelling and rich prose. Early testers have reported: - Expanded vocabulary with unique and expressive word…
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
3.6/10Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its…
MiniMax M2-her
3.6/10MiniMax M2-her is a dialogue-first large language model built for immersive roleplay, character-driven chat, and expressive multi-turn conversations. Designed to stay consistent…
GPT-4 Turbo Preview
3.5/10The preview GPT-4 model with improved instruction following, JSON mode, reproducible outputs, parallel function calling, and more. Training data: up to Dec…
Skyfall 36B V2
3.5/10Skyfall 36B v2 is an enhanced iteration of Mistral Small 2501, specifically fine-tuned for improved creativity, nuanced writing, role-playing, and coherent storytelling.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
3.5/10GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional…
GPT-3.5 Turbo
3.5/10GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional…
Aion-RP 1.0 (8B)
3.3/10Aion-RP-Llama-3.1-8B ranks the highest in the character evaluation portion of the RPBench-Auto benchmark, a roleplaying-specific variant of Arena-Hard-Auto, where LLMs evaluate each…
WizardLM-2 8x22B
3.2/10WizardLM-2 8x22B is Microsoft AI's most advanced Wizard model. It demonstrates highly competitive performance compared to leading proprietary models, and it consistently…
GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k
3.1/10This model offers four times the context length of gpt-3.5-turbo, allowing it to support approximately 20 pages of text in a single…
Magnum v4 72B
3.1/10This is a series of models designed to replicate the prose quality of the Claude 3 models, specifically Sonnet(https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet) and Opus(https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-3-opus). The…
ReMM SLERP 13B
3.1/10A recreation trial of the original MythoMax-L2-B13 but with updated models. #merge
Morph V3 Fast
3.0/10Morph's fastest apply model for code edits. ~10,500 tokens/sec with 96% accuracy for rapid code transformations. The model requires the prompt to…
Gemma 2 27B
2.9/10Gemma 2 27B by Google is an open model built from the same research and technology used to create the [Gemini models](/models?q=gemini).…
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
2.8/10This model is a variant of GPT-3.5 Turbo tuned for instructional prompts and omitting chat-related optimizations. Training data: up to Sep 2021.
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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.