Affordable Models
Affordable LLM APIs: Quality Models Under $5 per Million Tokens
Not the cheapest, not the most expensive. These affordable LLMs sit in the sweet spot under $5 per million input tokens while delivering genuinely strong performance on coding, reasoning, and writing tasks. The right choice for production workloads where you need quality without premium pricing.
Top Picks
Most Capable
Aion 1.0
Aion-labs
$4.00/1M input
Largest Context
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent
xAI
2Mcontext
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Cost per 1M Tokens / Flagship Models
All Affordable Models
| Provider | Model | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Context | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Flash Latest | $0.5000 | $3.00 | 1.0M | N/A | |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview | $0.5000 | $3.00 | 65.5K | N/A | |
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview | $0.5000 | $3.00 | 1.0M | 73.6Frontier | |
| Mistral | Mistral Large 2512 | $0.5000 | $1.50 | 262.1K | 64.9Strong |
| DeepSeek | Deepseek R1 0528 | $0.5000 | $2.15 | 163.8K | 64.6Strong |
| Arcee-ai | Coder Large | $0.5000 | $0.8000 | 32.8K | N/A |
| OpenAI | GPT 3.5 Turbo | $0.5000 | $1.50 | 16.4K | 48.8Good |
| Meta | Llama 3 70b Instruct | $0.5100 | $0.7400 | 8.2K | 58.1Strong |
| Qwen | Qwen Vl Max | $0.5200 | $2.08 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Thedrummer | Skyfall 36b V2 | $0.5500 | $0.8000 | 32.8K | N/A |
| Moonshot | Kimi K2 | $0.5700 | $2.30 | 131.1K | 63.4Strong |
| xAI | Glm 5 | $0.6000 | $1.92 | 202.8K | 69.7Frontier |
| Writer | Palmyra X5 | $0.6000 | $6.00 | 1.0M | N/A |
| OpenAI | GPT Audio Mini | $0.6000 | $2.40 | 128K | N/A |
| Moonshot | Kimi K2 Thinking | $0.6000 | $2.50 | 262.1K | 63.4Strong |
| xAI | Glm 4.5v | $0.6000 | $1.80 | 65.5K | 82.3Frontier |
| xAI | Glm 4.5 | $0.6000 | $2.20 | 131.1K | 72.0Frontier |
| Microsoft | Wizardlm 2 8x22b | $0.6200 | $0.6200 | 65.5K | N/A |
| Qwen | Qwen3 Coder Plus | $0.6500 | $3.25 | 1M | N/A |
| Sao10k | L3.3 Euryale 70b | $0.6500 | $0.7500 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Gemma 2 27b It | $0.6500 | $0.6500 | 8.2K | 60.4Strong | |
| Qwen | Qwen 2.5 Coder 32b Instruct | $0.6600 | $1.00 | 32.8K | 57.1Strong |
| Aion-labs | Aion 1.0 Mini | $0.7000 | $1.40 | 131.1K | N/A |
| DeepSeek | Deepseek R1 Distill Llama 70b | $0.7000 | $0.8000 | 131.1K | N/A |
| DeepSeek | Deepseek R1 | $0.7000 | $2.50 | 64K | 64.6Strong |
| ~openai | GPT Mini Latest | $0.7500 | $4.50 | 400K | N/A |
| ~moonshotai | Kimi Latest | $0.7500 | $3.50 | 262.1K | N/A |
| Moonshot | Kimi K2.6 | $0.7500 | $3.50 | 262.1K | 73.9Frontier |
| OpenAI | GPT 5.4 Mini | $0.7500 | $4.50 | 400K | 68.9Frontier |
| Arcee-ai | Virtuoso Large | $0.7500 | $1.20 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Mancer | Weaver | $0.7500 | $1.00 | 8K | N/A |
| Qwen | Qwen3 Max Thinking | $0.7800 | $3.90 | 262.1K | 86.6Frontier |
| Qwen | Qwen3 Max | $0.7800 | $3.90 | 262.1K | 84.6Frontier |
| Aion-labs | Aion 2.0 | $0.8000 | $1.60 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Morph | Morph V3 Fast | $0.8000 | $1.20 | 81.9K | N/A |
| Alfredpros | Codellama 7b Instruct Solidity | $0.8000 | $1.20 | 4.1K | N/A |
| Aion-labs | Aion Rp Llama 3.1 8b | $0.8000 | $1.60 | 32.8K | N/A |
| Amazon | Nova Pro V1 | $0.8000 | $3.20 | 300K | N/A |
| Anthropic | Claude 3.5 Haiku | $0.8000 | $4.00 | 200K | 66.6Frontier |
| Relace | Relace Apply 3 | $0.8500 | $1.25 | 256K | N/A |
| Switchpoint | Router | $0.8500 | $3.40 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Sao10k | L3.1 Euryale 70b | $0.8500 | $0.8500 | 131.1K | N/A |
| Morph | Morph V3 Large | $0.9000 | $1.90 | 262.1K | N/A |
| Arcee-ai | Maestro Reasoning | $0.9000 | $3.30 | 131.1K | N/A |
| ~anthropic | Claude Haiku Latest | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | N/A |
| Xiaomi | Mimo V2.5 Pro | $1.00 | $3.00 | 1.0M | 91.8Frontier |
| Xiaomi | Mimo V2 Pro | $1.00 | $3.00 | 1.0M | 59.4Strong |
| Relace | Relace Search | $1.00 | $3.00 | 256K | N/A |
| Anthropic | Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | 62.4Strong |
| Nousresearch | Hermes 4 405b | $1.00 | $3.00 | 131.1K | N/A |
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