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Cheapest Language Models 2026

Sorted by the figures the makers publish, newest first unless the list says otherwise. Nothing here is scored.

No. 1 · Mistral

Mistral Nemo

Released: 19 Jul 2024
Lab: Mistral
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.019 in · $0.03 out
Abilities: tool calling, open weights

No. 2 · inclusionAI

Ling 3.0 Flash VL

Released: 10 Sep 2026
Lab: inclusionAI
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.021 in · $0.0616 out
Abilities: reasoning, vision, tool calling, open weights

No. 3 · inclusionAI

Ling 3.0 Flash

Released: 23 Jul 2026
Lab: inclusionAI
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.021 in · $0.063 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 4 · DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Released: 24 Apr 2026
Lab: DeepSeek
Context: 1M tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.028 in · $0.056 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 5 · Sao10K

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Released: 13 Aug 2024
Lab: Sao10K
Context: 8K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.04 in · $0.05 out
Abilities: open weights

No. 6 · OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b

Released: 5 Aug 2025
Lab: OpenAI
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.018 in · $0.09 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 7 · Nex AGI

Nex-N2.5-Mini

Released: 8 Sep 2026
Lab: Nex AGI
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.025 in · $0.1 out
Abilities: reasoning, vision, open weights

No. 8 · IBM

Granite 4.0 Micro

Released: 20 Oct 2025
Lab: IBM
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.017 in · $0.112 out
Abilities: open weights

No. 9 · Mistral

Mistral Small 3

Released: 30 Jan 2025
Lab: Mistral
Context: 33K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.05 in · $0.08 out
Abilities: open weights

No. 10 · Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Released: 23 Jul 2024
Lab: Meta
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.05 in · $0.08 out
Abilities: tool calling, open weights

No. 11 · OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b (batch)

Released: 5 Aug 2025
Lab: OpenAI
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.024 in · $0.112 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 12 · Mistral

Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Released: 2 Dec 2025
Lab: Mistral
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.075 in · $0.075 out
Abilities: vision, tool calling, open weights

No. 13 · Google

Gemma 3 4B

Released: 13 Mar 2025
Lab: Google
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.05 in · $0.1 out
Abilities: vision, open weights

No. 14 · Qwen

Qwen3.7 Flash

Released: 27 Jul 2026
Lab: Qwen
Context: 1M tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.03 in · $0.13 out
Abilities: reasoning, vision, tool calling

No. 15 · inclusionAI

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin

Released: 27 Aug 2026
Lab: inclusionAI
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.042 in · $0.1232 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling

No. 16 · OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b (batch)

Released: 5 Aug 2025
Lab: OpenAI
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.0296 in · $0.136 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 17 · Amazon

Nova Micro 1.0

Released: 5 Dec 2024
Lab: Amazon
Context: 128K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.035 in · $0.14 out
Abilities: tool calling

No. 18 · Inference.net

Schematron V2 Turbo

Released: 12 Sep 2026
Lab: Inference.net
Context: 128K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.03 in · $0.15 out
Abilities: open weights

No. 19 · Poolside

Laguna XS 2.1

Released: 2 Jul 2026
Lab: Poolside
Context: 262K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.06 in · $0.12 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling, open weights

No. 20 · Cohere

Command R7B (12-2024)

Released: 14 Dec 2024
Lab: Cohere
Context: 128K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.0375 in · $0.15 out
Abilities: text

No. 21 · Inception

Mercury 2.5

Released: 8 Sep 2026
Lab: Inception
Context: 260K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.04 in · $0.15 out
Abilities: reasoning, tool calling

No. 22 · gryphe

MythoMax 13B

Released: 2 Jul 2023
Lab: gryphe
Context: 8K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.08 in · $0.11 out
Abilities: open weights

No. 23 · rekaai

Reka Edge

Released: 20 Mar 2026
Lab: rekaai
Context: 16K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.1 in · $0.1 out
Abilities: reasoning, vision, tool calling, open weights

No. 24 · Mistral

Ministral 3 3B 2512

Released: 2 Dec 2025
Lab: Mistral
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.1 in · $0.1 out
Abilities: vision, tool calling, open weights

No. 25 · Google

Gemma 3 12B

Released: 13 Mar 2025
Lab: Google
Context: 131K tokens
Price per 1M tokens: $0.05 in · $0.15 out
Abilities: vision, tool calling, open weights

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