Cheapest Frontier AI Models

Ranked by input cost per million tokens. Includes open-weight and proprietary models available via API.

Updated April 2026 · Source: AI Flash Report model database

#ModelInput/MOutput/MContextLicense
#1 Gemini 2.0 Flash
Google
$0.10 $0.40 1M tokens Proprietary
#2 GLM-5
Zhipu AI
$0.11 $0.28 200K tokens Proprietary (open weights for non-frontier sizes)
#3 Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
$0.15 $2.50 2M tokens Modified MIT (open weights)
#4 Claude 3 Haiku
Anthropic
$0.25/M $1.25/M 200K tokens Proprietary
#5 DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek
$0.27 $1.10 1M tokens DeepSeek License (open weights, commercial OK)
#6 DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
$0.27 $1.10 128K tokens DeepSeek License (open weights)
#7 Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google
$0.30 $2.50 1M tokens Proprietary
#8 ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 Turbo)
OpenAI
$0.50/M $1.50/M 16K tokens Proprietary
#9 Mistral Large 3
Mistral
$2.00 $6.00 256K tokens Mistral Commercial License
#10 GPT-5.2
OpenAI
$2.00 $10.00 400K tokens Proprietary
#11 Grok-2
xAI
$2/M $10/M 128K tokens Proprietary
#12 GPT-5.1
OpenAI
$2.25 $11.00 400K tokens Proprietary
#13 Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
$2.50 $10.00 2M tokens Proprietary
#14 Gemini 3 Pro
Google
$2.50 $10.00 1M tokens Proprietary
#15 GPT-5
OpenAI
$2.50 $12.00 400K tokens Proprietary

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