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 Coder 480B A35B (free)
8.2/10Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as…
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)
7.9/10Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks…
Qwen3.6 Flash
7.8/10Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series. It supports text, image, and video input with a…
Qwen3.5-Flash
7.8/10The Qwen3.5 native vision-language Flash models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts…
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
7.7/10Qwen3.5 Plus (April 2026) is a large-scale multimodal language model from Alibaba. It accepts text, image, and video input and produces text…
Qwen3.6 Plus
7.7/10Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance…
Qwen3.5-9B
7.6/10Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient…
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
7.6/10Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It…
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…
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
7.3/10The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models,…
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
7.1/10The Qwen3.5 Series 35B-A3B is a native vision-language model designed with a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms and a sparse…
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…
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…
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
7.0/10Qwen3-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,…
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
7.0/10Qwen3-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…
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…
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
7.0/10Qwen3-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…
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…
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…
Qwen3.6 27B
6.8/10Qwen3.6 27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter language model from the Qwen Team at Alibaba, released in April 2026. It features hybrid multimodal…
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…
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
6.7/10Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as…
Qwen3.5-27B
6.7/10The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance.…
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
6.7/10Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and…
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.
Qwen3 32B
6.6/10Qwen3-32B is a dense 32.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, optimized for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It…
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
6.6/10Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 is a 30B parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model optimized for complex tasks requiring extended multi-step thinking. The model is designed specifically for…
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
6.5/10Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step…
Qwen3 14B
6.5/10Qwen3-14B is a dense 14.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It…
Qwen3 8B
6.5/10Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It…
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
6.4/10The 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…
Qwen3 Coder Plus
6.3/10Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model…
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
6.2/10Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks…
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
6.2/10The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse…
Qwen3 30B A3B
6.1/10Qwen3, the latest generation in the Qwen large language model series, features both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures to excel in reasoning,…
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
6.0/10Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning…
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
5.9/10Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. It activates 22B of its 235B parameters per…
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…
Qwen3 Max Thinking
5.5/10Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly…
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
5.3/10Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge…
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
5.3/10Qwen2.5-VL is proficient in recognizing common objects such as flowers, birds, fish, and insects. It is also highly capable of analyzing texts,…
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
5.2/10Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Thinking model is…
Qwen3 Max
5.0/10Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge…
Qwen3 235B A22B
4.3/10Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between…
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
3.8/10Qwen2.5-Coder is the latest series of Code-Specific Qwen large language models (formerly known as CodeQwen). Qwen2.5-Coder brings the following improvements upon CodeQwen1.5:…
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Price drops, new models, deprecations
Every Tuesday: which models got cheaper, which launched, which got pulled. Five minutes. No filler.
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.