Best value AI models
The best bang for your buck — models ranked by intelligence per dollar (overall index relative to blended API price). The smartest models you can run cheapest.
- 1Ling-2.6-flashOverall 59.3$0.020/MBlended $/M
- 2Llama 3.1 8B InstructOverall 45$0.035/MBlended $/M
- 3Qwen3.5 2BOverall 45.6$0.050/MBlended $/M
- 4gpt-oss-20bOverall 73.6$0.085/MBlended $/M
- 5Qwen3.5-9BOverall 80.6$0.095/MBlended $/M
- 6Llama 3 8B InstructOverall 32.4$0.040/MBlended $/M
- 7Nemotron Nano 9B V2Overall 77.6$0.10/MBlended $/M
- 8Qwen3.5 4BOverall 77.1$0.10/MBlended $/M
- 9Gemma 3 4BOverall 45.8$0.060/MBlended $/M
- 10Llama 3.2 11B InstructOverall 36.7$0.050/MBlended $/M
- 11gpt-oss-120bOverall 79.6$0.11/MBlended $/M
- 12Ministral 8B InstructOverall 70.9$0.10/MBlended $/M
- 13NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2Overall 68.3$0.10/MBlended $/M
- 14Mistral Small 3Overall 43.6$0.065/MBlended $/M
- 15Qwen2.5 7B InstructOverall 46.6$0.070/MBlended $/M
Rankings are computed from live benchmark data and update automatically. See the full intelligence leaderboard for the overall picture.
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