Budget models

Cheapest AI models

Sorted by input token price — lowest first. Use the segments below to filter by budget tier.

Free-tier models

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MModality
1Arcee AI: Trinity Large Preview (free)Arcee Ai131K$0.00
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2Arcee AI: Trinity Mini (free)Arcee Ai131.072K$0.00
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3Venice: Uncensored (free)Cognitivecomputations32.768K$0.00
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4Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)Google32.768K$0.00
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5Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)Google131.072K$0.00
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6Google: Gemma 3 4B (free)Google32.768K$0.00
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7Google: Gemma 3n 2B (free)Google8.192K$0.00
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8Google: Gemma 3n 4B (free)Google8.192K$0.00
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9LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)Liquid32.768K$0.00
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10LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)Liquid32.768K$0.00
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11Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)Meta131.072K$0.00
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12Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta65.536K$0.00
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13MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free)Minimax196.608K$0.00
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14Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)Mistral AI128K$0.00
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15Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free)Nousresearch131.072K$0.00
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Under $1.00 / 1M tokens

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MModality
1Auto Router
openrouter/auto
Openrouter2,000K$-1000000.0000$-1000000.0000text+image+file+audio+video->text+image
2Body Builder (beta)
openrouter/bodybuilder
Openrouter128K$-1000000.0000$-1000000.0000text->text
3Arcee AI: Trinity Large Preview (free)
arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview:free
Arcee Ai131K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
4Arcee AI: Trinity Mini (free)
arcee-ai/trinity-mini:free
Arcee Ai131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
5Venice: Uncensored (free)
cognitivecomputations/dolphin-mistral-24b-venice-edition:free
Cognitivecomputations32.768K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
6Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)
google/gemma-3-12b-it:free
Google32.768K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text
7Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)
google/gemma-3-27b-it:free
Google131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text
8Google: Gemma 3 4B (free)
google/gemma-3-4b-it:free
Google32.768K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text
9Google: Gemma 3n 2B (free)
google/gemma-3n-e2b-it:free
Google8.192K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
10Google: Gemma 3n 4B (free)
google/gemma-3n-e4b-it:free
Google8.192K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
11Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview
google/lyria-3-clip-preview
Google1,048.576K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text+audio
12Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview
google/lyria-3-pro-preview
Google1,048.576K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text+audio
13LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)
liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct:free
Liquid32.768K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
14LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)
liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-thinking:free
Liquid32.768K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
15Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct:free
Meta131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
16Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)
meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free
Meta65.536K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
17MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free)
minimax/minimax-m2.5:free
Minimax196.608K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
18Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)
mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct:free
Mistral AI128K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text
19Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free)
nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b:free
Nousresearch131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
20NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free
Nvidia256K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
21NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
Nvidia262.144K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
22NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)
nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free
Nvidia128K$0.0000$0.0000text+image+video->text
23NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)
nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free
Nvidia128K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
24OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free)
openai/gpt-oss-120b:free
OpenAI131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
25OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (free)
openai/gpt-oss-20b:free
OpenAI131.072K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
26Free Models Router
openrouter/free
Openrouter200K$0.0000$0.0000text+image->text
27Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free)
qwen/qwen3-4b:free
Qwen40.96K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
28Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)
qwen/qwen3-coder:free
Qwen262K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
29Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct:free
Qwen262.144K$0.0000$0.0000text->text
30Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)
qwen/qwen3.6-plus-preview:free
Qwen1,000K$0.0000$0.0000text->text

$1–$5 / 1M tokens

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
1Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic200K$1.00$5.00
2Nous: Hermes 3 405B InstructNousresearch131.072K$1.00$1.00
3Nous: Hermes 4 405BNousresearch131.072K$1.00$3.00
4OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)OpenAI4.095K$1.00$2.00
5Perplexity: SonarPerplexity127.072K$1.00$1.00
6Relace: Relace SearchRelace256K$1.00$3.00
7Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi1,048.576K$1.00$3.00
8Qwen: Qwen-MaxQwen32.768K$1.04$4.16
9OpenAI: o3 MiniOpenAI200K$1.10$4.40
10OpenAI: o3 Mini HighOpenAI200K$1.10$4.40
11OpenAI: o4 MiniOpenAI200K$1.10$4.40
12OpenAI: o4 Mini HighOpenAI200K$1.10$4.40
13NVIDIA: Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNvidia131.072K$1.20$1.20
14Z.ai: GLM 5 TurboZ Ai202.752K$1.20$4.00
15Deep Cogito: Cogito v2.1 671BDeepcogito128K$1.25$1.25
16Google: Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle1,048.576K$1.25$10.00
17Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google1,048.576K$1.25$10.00
18Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google1,048.576K$1.25$10.00
19OpenAI: GPT-5OpenAI400K$1.25$10.00
20OpenAI: GPT-5 ChatOpenAI128K$1.25$10.00

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