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Cheapest Language Models in 2026

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437 on record. Sorted by input price; every figure comes from the OpenRouter model catalogue, with the page it was read from on each entry.

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#ModelContext windowInput / 1MOutput / 1M
176Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogletext, image, video, file, audio1M$0.31$2.51
177GLM 4.6VZ.aiopen weightsimage, text, video131K$0.31$0.91
178LongCat 2.0Meituanopen weightstext1M$0.31$1.21
179MiniMax M2MiniMaxopen weightstext205K$0.31$1.21
180MiniMax M2.1MiniMaxopen weightstext205K$0.31$1.21
181MiniMax M2-herMiniMaxtext66K$0.31$1.21
182MiniMax M3MiniMaxopen weightstext, image, video1M$0.31$1.21
183Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Googleimage, text33K$0.31$2.51
184Nova 2 LiteAmazontext, image, video, file1M$0.31$2.51
185Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Qwentext, image, video1M$0.31$1.81
186Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwenopen weightstext262K$0.31$11
187Qwen3.6 27BQwenopen weightstext, image, video262K$0.321$3.21
188Qwen3.7 PlusQwentext, image1M$0.321$1.281
189Qwen3.6 PlusQwentext, image, video1M$0.325$1.951
190Muse Glimmer 30BMetaopen weightstext, image131K$0.351$1.51
191ReMM SLERP 13Bundi95open weightstext6K$0.351$0.651
192Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistralopen weightstext, image128K$0.351$0.555
193Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwenopen weightstext33K$0.361$0.41
194GLM 5.3 FlashXZ.aitext, image, video1M$0.371$1.251
195Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Googletext, image, video, file, audio1M$0.375$1.875
196Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)Googletext, image, video, file, audio1M$0.375$1.875
197Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Googletext, image, video, file, audio1M$0.375$1.875
198GPT-5.4 Mini (batch)OpenAIfile, image, text400K$0.375$2.251
199Devstral 2 2512Mistralopen weightstext, file262K$0.41$21
200GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAIimage, text, file1M$0.41$1.61

Context bars share one log scale, 1K to 2M tokens. Prices are what each provider publishes per million tokens; 'varies' is a router that bills the model it picks.

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