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Cheapest AI Models
Most cost-effective AI models ranked by price-performance ratio.
Updated October 12, 2026
Rank
Model
Provider
Score
Cost Score
1
All MiniLM L6 V2
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
2
Multi Qa Mpnet Base Dot V1
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
3
All MiniLM L12 V2
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
4
Text2vec Base Chinese
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
5
Clip ViT B 32
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
6
All Mpnet Base V2
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
7
Clip ViT B 32 Multilingual V1
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
8
Paraphrase MiniLM L6 V2
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
9
LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
10
LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
11
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507
huggingface
45.0
0.00
12
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507
huggingface
45.0
0.00
13
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct
huggingface
45.0
0.00
14
Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct
huggingface
45.0
0.00
15
Mistral: Mistral Nemo
openrouter
53.0
0.00
16
Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
17
Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
18
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
huggingface
45.0
0.00
19
Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris
openrouter
55.0
0.00
20
L3 8B Lunaris V1 Turbo
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
21
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
huggingface
45.0
0.00
22
L3 8B Lunaris V1
huggingface
45.0
0.00
23
L3 8B Stheno V3.2
huggingface
45.0
0.00
24
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b
semantic-cache
55.0
0.00
25
Qwen: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct
openrouter
52.0
0.00
26
Google: Gemma 2 9B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
27
IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro
openrouter
53.0
0.00
28
Granite 4.0 H Micro
cloudflare
50.0
0.00
29
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
openrouter
65.0
0.00
30
Mistral: Mistral Small 3
openrouter
52.0
0.00
31
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
32
Google: Gemma 3 4B
openrouter
55.0
0.00
33
LiquidAI: LFM2-24B-A2B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
34
Gemma 3 4b It
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
35
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash
semantic-cache
57.0
0.00
36
Qwen: Qwen-Turbo
openrouter
53.0
0.00
37
Gpt Oss 20b
siliconflow
50.0
0.00
38
Gpt Oss 20b
deepinfra
50.0
0.00
39
Gpt Oss 20b
cloudflare
50.0
0.00
40
Gpt Oss 20b
huggingface
45.0
0.00
41
AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual
huggingface
45.0
0.00
42
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0
openrouter
53.0
0.00
43
Google: Gemma 3n 4B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
44
Gemma 3n E4B It
huggingface
45.0
0.00
45
MythoMax 13B
openrouter
52.0
0.00
46
Arcee AI: Trinity Mini
openrouter
56.0
0.00
47
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2
openrouter
62.0
0.00
48
Ministral 3b 2512
mistral
60.0
0.00
49
Ministral 3b Latest
mistral
60.0
0.00
50
Google: Gemma 3 12B
openrouter
55.0
0.00