Cheapest LLM leaderboard: the 50 lowest-cost AI models available anywhere right now, ranke
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.
10000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-08-29
updated
Provider
modelprices.xyz · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
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"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "10000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"board": "Cheapest models overall",
"generated_at": "2026-07-14T02:00:00.000Z",
"model_count": 24,
"models": [
{
"context_window": 200000,
"id": "gemini-3-flash-lite",
"input_per_mtok": 3,
"output_per_mtok": 15,
"provider": "anthropic"
}
]
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
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"properties": {
"input": {
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"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
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"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"
}
},
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"info": {
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},
"schema": {
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"properties": {
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"items": {
"pattern": "^[a-z0-9_]{1,32}$",
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"w": {
"description": "Wallet builder code",
"pattern": "^[a-z0-9_]{1,32}$",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/overall" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/overall");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/overall")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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