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 Gemma 3n 4B at $0.025 per million tokens (3:1 blended).
Ministral 3 14B 2512
7.3/10The largest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B offers frontier capabilities and performance comparable to its larger Mistral Small…
Grok 4.20
7.3/10Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on…
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
7.3/10Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance.…
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…
Nemotron 3 Super
7.3/10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in…
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…
Step 3.5 Flash
7.2/10Step 3.5 Flash is StepFun's most capable open-source foundation model. Built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, it selectively activates…
Grok 4 Fast
7.2/10Grok 4 Fast is xAI's latest multimodal model with SOTA cost-efficiency and a 2M token context window. It comes in two flavors:…
Trinity Large Thinking
7.2/10Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench,…
Qwen3.5-27B
7.2/10The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance.…
Gemma 3n 4B
7.2/10Gemma 3n E4B-it is optimized for efficient execution on mobile and low-resource devices, such as phones, laptops, and tablets. It supports multimodal…
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…
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
7.2/10Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It…
Nemotron Nano 9B V2
7.2/10NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 is a large language model (LLM) trained from scratch by NVIDIA, and designed as a unified model for both reasoning and…
Gemma 3 4B (free)
7.2/10Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages,…
Gemma 3 12B (free)
7.2/10Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages,…
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)
7.2/10The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out).…
gpt-oss-120b
7.1/10gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases. It activates…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite
7.1/10Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to [Gemini Flash 1.5](/google/gemini-flash-1.5), while maintaining quality on…
Llama Guard 3 8B
7.1/10Llama Guard 3 is a Llama-3.1-8B pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to…
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
7.1/10Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is a large-scale multimodal vision-language model designed for high-precision understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. With 32 billion parameters,…
GPT-5 Nano
7.1/10GPT-5-Nano is the smallest and fastest variant in the GPT-5 system, optimized for developer tools, rapid interactions, and ultra-low latency environments. While…
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
7.1/10Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed,…
Qwen Plus 0728
7.1/10Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed,…
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
7.1/10Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is a 30.5B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model from Qwen, with 3.3B active parameters per inference. It operates in non-thinking mode and is…
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
7.0/10Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is an updated 24B parameter model from Mistral optimized for instruction following, repetition reduction, and improved function calling. Compared to the…
Gemini 2.0 Flash
7.0/10Gemini Flash 2.0 offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to [Gemini Flash 1.5](/google/gemini-flash-1.5), while maintaining quality on par…
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
7.0/10Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale…
Nova 2 Lite
7.0/10Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text.…
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
7.0/10Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is an upgraded variant of Mistral Small 3 (2501), featuring 24 billion parameters with advanced multimodal capabilities.…
Gemma 3 4B
7.0/10Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages,…
Qwen3 Coder Flash
6.9/10Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent…
Qwen-Turbo
6.9/10Qwen-Turbo, based on Qwen2.5, is a 1M context model that provides fast speed and low cost, suitable for simple tasks.
GPT-4.1 Mini
6.9/10GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million…
Llama 4 Maverick
6.9/10Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128…
Seed-2.0-Lite
6.9/10Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a…
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…
Gemma 3 12B
6.9/10Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages,…
Nova Lite 1.0
6.9/10Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a very low-cost multimodal model from Amazon that focused on fast processing of image, video, and text…
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
6.9/10The Qwen3.5 122B-A10B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts…
Gemini 2.5 Flash
6.9/10Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking"…
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
6.8/10Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is a variant of xAI’s Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows. Multiple agents operate in parallel to conduct…
Llama 4 Scout
6.8/10Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a…
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
6.8/10Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following…
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
6.8/10Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model…
Qwen3 Coder Next
6.8/10Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with…
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…
Gemma 3 27B
6.8/10Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages,…
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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 Gemma 3n 4B from Google at $0.025 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.