Tarifs · 2026-05-12
Cheapest LLM APIs
AI APIs ranked by input + output token cost.
À propos de cette liste
- All text-in / text-out LLM APIs sorted from cheapest to most expensive by total per-token cost.
- Models with $0 placeholder pricing (free promo tiers, GitHub Copilot rebroadcasts) are excluded — Unknown is not the same as free.
- Use this list to find the lowest-cost option that still meets your context and capability requirements.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest LLM API right now?
BGE Reranker Base is the lowest-priced AI APIs on this list, at $0.003 per 1M input tokens and Unknown per 1M output tokens. The total column above sums input + output per 1M tokens for direct comparison.
Why are prices shown per 1M tokens?
Almost every commercial LLM provider publishes rates per million tokens. Per-1K-tokens or per-token rates are easy to misread (off by 1000×). Standardising on $/1M lets you compare vendors directly.
Are these prices including or excluding tax?
All prices are the provider's headline list rate in USD, before any volume discounts, prepaid credits, batch-API discounts, prompt-caching discounts or jurisdictional sales tax. Always verify with the provider before committing to a budget.
How often do these prices change?
Models.dev pushes price changes within hours of a vendor announcement, and our pipeline re-syncs daily. We also write each change to /changelog so you can audit historical pricing over time.
Why are some models showing 'Unknown' instead of a price?
We deliberately do not coerce missing data to $0. 'Unknown' means the provider does not publish a public rate (often models behind enterprise sales or invite-only access). Treating Unknown as free would push paid-but-unpriced models to the top of every cheap list — broken UX and broken SEO.
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Top picks · model details
- BGE Reranker Base$0.00 in / $0.00 out
- Voxtral Small 24B 2507$0.00 in / $0.00 out
- Multi-QA-mpnet-base-dot-v1$0.01 in / $0.00 out
- All-MiniLM-L6-v2$0.01 in / $0.00 out
- Qwen3 Embedding 8B$0.01 in / $0.00 out
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Prices in USD per 1M tokens. Unknown means the provider does not publish per-token pricing.
Data is sourced from models.dev and normalized for comparison. Prices and capabilities may change. Always verify critical production decisions with the provider's official documentation.