Cheapest LLM leaderboard
Cheapest LLM leaderboard: the 50 lowest-cost AI models available anywhere right now, ranked by inference cost per token across 70+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek). Input, output, cache and batch USD per 1M tokens, with context window and capability flags joined in. The one call that answers 'what is the cheapest model I can use?' Refreshed hourly.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
936 msmedian answer time
$0.01listed price per call
$0.01price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/overall
| Category | Market data |
|---|---|
| Provider host | modelprices.xyz |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.01 | 936 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}