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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.

121 models·28 providers·$0.5000 to $4.00/1M input

Top Picks

Cheapest

GPT 3.5 Turbo

OpenAI

$0.5000/1M input

Most Capable

Aion 1.0

Aion-labs

$4.00/1M input

Largest Context

Grok 4.20

xAI

2Mcontext

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Cost per 1M Tokens / Flagship Models

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All Affordable Models

121 models
ProviderModelInput $/1MOutput $/1MContextQuality
GoogleGemini 3.1 Flash Image$0.5000$3.00131.1KN/A
NVIDIANemotron 3 Ultra 550b A55b$0.5000$2.201M
49.9Good
GoogleGemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview$0.5000$3.00131.1KN/A
GoogleGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.5000$3.001.0M
73.6Frontier
MistralMistral Large 2512$0.5000$1.50262.1KN/A
DeepSeekDeepseek R1 0528$0.5000$2.15163.8K
64.6Strong
Arcee-aiCoder Large$0.5000$0.800032.8KN/A
OpenAIGPT 3.5 Turbo$0.5000$1.5016.4KN/A
ThedrummerSkyfall 36b V2$0.5500$0.800032.8KN/A
MoonshotKimi K2$0.5700$2.30131.1K
63.4Strong
xAIGlm 5$0.6000$1.92202.8K
69.7Frontier
WriterPalmyra X5$0.6000$6.001.0MN/A
OpenAIGPT Audio Mini$0.6000$2.40128KN/A
MoonshotKimi K2 Thinking$0.6000$2.50262.1K
63.4Strong
MoonshotKimi K2 0905$0.6000$2.50262.1K
63.4Strong
xAIGlm 4.5v$0.6000$1.8065.5KN/A
xAIGlm 4.5$0.6000$2.20131.1KN/A
MicrosoftWizardlm 2 8x22b$0.6200$0.620065.5KN/A
QwenQwen3 Coder Plus$0.6500$3.251MN/A
Sao10kL3.3 Euryale 70b$0.6500$0.7500131.1KN/A
GoogleGemma 2 27b It$0.6500$0.65008.2KN/A
~moonshotaiKimi Latest$0.6600$3.41262.1KN/A
MoonshotKimi K2.6$0.6600$3.41262.1K
73.9Frontier
QwenQwen 2.5 Coder 32b Instruct$0.6600$1.00128KN/A
Aion-labsAion 1.0 Mini$0.7000$1.40131.1KN/A
DeepSeekDeepseek R1$0.7000$2.50163.8K
64.6Strong
NousresearchHermes 3 Llama 3.1 70b$0.7000$0.7000131.1KN/A
MoonshotKimi K2.7 Code$0.7400$3.50262.1K
73.8Frontier
~openaiGPT Mini Latest$0.7500$4.50400KN/A
OpenAIGPT 5.4 Mini$0.7500$4.50400K
68.9Frontier
Arcee-aiVirtuoso Large$0.7500$1.20131.1KN/A
MancerWeaver$0.7500$1.008KN/A
QwenQwen3 Max Thinking$0.7800$3.90262.1KN/A
QwenQwen3 Max$0.7800$3.90262.1KN/A
Aion-labsAion 2.0$0.8000$1.60131.1KN/A
MorphMorph V3 Fast$0.8000$1.2081.9KN/A
Aion-labsAion Rp Llama 3.1 8b$0.8000$1.6032.8KN/A
QwenQwen2.5 Vl 72b Instruct$0.8000$1.00131.1KN/A
DeepSeekDeepseek R1 Distill Llama 70b$0.8000$0.8000128KN/A
AmazonNova Pro V1$0.8000$3.20300KN/A
RelaceRelace Apply 3$0.8500$1.25256KN/A
SwitchpointRouter$0.8500$3.40131.1KN/A
Sao10kL3.1 Euryale 70b$0.8500$0.8500131.1KN/A
MorphMorph V3 Large$0.9000$1.90262.1KN/A
xAIGlm 5.2$0.9800$3.081.0M
78.7Frontier
xAIGlm 5.1$0.9800$3.08202.8K
72.1Frontier
xAIGrok Build 0.1$1.00$2.00256K
70.8Frontier
~anthropicClaude Haiku Latest$1.00$5.00200KN/A
RelaceRelace Search$1.00$3.00256KN/A
AnthropicClaude Haiku 4.5$1.00$5.00200K
62.4Strong

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