How many chat LLM models are available?

There are currently 200 chat models tracked on Sector HQ. Pricing is collected every 6 hours from all major inference providers.

How is blended price calculated?

Blended price uses the formula (3 × input + 1 × output) / 4 per million tokens, reflecting typical usage where input tokens outnumber output tokens roughly 3:1.

Cheapest Chat LLM APIs in 2026

Chat and conversational LLM APIs ranked by price. Find the cheapest option for chatbots, assistants, and text generation.

What is the cheapest chat LLM?

The cheapest chat LLM API is Japanese Stable Diffusion XL via Fireworks AI at $0.0001 per million tokens. 200 chat models are compared across all providers.

Chat Models by Price

200 models

#	Model	Provider	Input	Output	Quality	Released↓
164	Allenai Olmocr 2 7B 1025	Deepinfra	$0.090	$0.190	—	Oct 25
200	Zai Org GLM 4.7 Flash	Deepinfra	$0.060	$0.400	—	Sep 1
196	GPT 5 Nano	Azure OpenAI	$0.050	$0.400	Strong	Aug 7
165	Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 30BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.070	$0.260	Good	Jul 14
61	Voxtral Mini 3B 2507	AWS Bedrock	$0.040	$0.040	—	Jul 1
44	Paddlepaddle Paddleocr VL	Novita AI	$0.020	$0.020	—	Jun 30
168	Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B 21B	Novita AI	$0.070	$0.280	—	Jun 30
169	Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking 21B	Novita AI	$0.070	$0.280	—	Jun 30
90	Baichuan Baichuan M2 32B	Novita AI	$0.070	$0.070	—	Jun 1
140	Minimax M1 80K	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	—	Jun 1
87	DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B	Novita AI	$0.060	$0.090	Frontier	May 28
75	OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b 20B	Deepinfra	$0.030	$0.140	—	May 1
95	OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b 120B	Deepinfra	$0.039	$0.190	—	May 1
108	OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (exacto) 120B	OpenRouter*	$0.047	$0.228	—	May 1
158	OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b 20B	AWS Bedrock	$0.070	$0.200	—	May 1
184	GPT Oss 20B 1 0	AWS Bedrock	$0.070	$0.300	—	May 1
12	Qwen3 Embedding 0 6B Batch	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	Good	Apr 28
28	Qwen3 Reranker 0 6B	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
31	Qwen3 Embedding 4B Batch	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
33	Qwen3 Embedding 8B	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
35	Qwen3 Embedding 0 6B	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
40	Qwen3 Embedding 4B	Deepinfra	$0.020	Free	Good	Apr 28
41	Qwen3 Reranker 4B	Deepinfra	$0.025	Free	Good	Apr 28
52	Qwen3 4B Fp8	Novita AI	$0.030	$0.030	Good	Apr 28
53	Qwen3 Embedding 8B Batch	Deepinfra	$0.040	Free	Good	Apr 28
57	Qwen3 Reranker 8B	Deepinfra	$0.050	Free	Good	Apr 28
81	Qwen3 8B Fp8	Novita AI	$0.035	$0.138	Good	Apr 28
96	Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507	Deepinfra	$0.071	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
105	qwen-turbo	Alibaba Cloud	$0.050	$0.200	—	Apr 28
109	Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 235BOpen	OpenRouter*	$0.085	$0.120	Good	Apr 28
118	Qwen3 1.7b Fp8 Draft	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
121	Qwen3 1.7b	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
135	Qwen3 1.7b Fp8 Draft 40960	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
137	Qwen3 1.7b Fp8 Draft 131072	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
146	Qwen3 0.6b	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Good	Apr 28
183	Qwen: Qwen3 14B 14BOpen	OpenRouter*	$0.072	$0.288	Good	Apr 28
185	Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B 30BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.080	$0.280	Good	Apr 28
187	Qwen: Qwen3 32B 32BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.080	$0.280	Good	Apr 28
195	Llama 4 Scout 17B 16e Instruct	Deepinfra	$0.080	$0.300	Frontier	Apr 5
124	Cogito V1 Preview Llama 3B	Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	—	Apr 1
159	AllenAI: Olmo 2 32B Instruct 32B	OpenRouter*	$0.060	$0.240	—	Mar 25
48	Google: Gemma 3n 4B 4B	Together AI	$0.020	$0.040	—	Mar 12
85	Phi 4 Multimodal Instruct	Deepinfra	$0.050	$0.100	—	Feb 26
192	Phi-4-mini-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.075	$0.300	—	Feb 26
199	Phi-4-mini-reasoning	Azure OpenAI	$0.080	$0.320	—	Feb 26
188	Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Preview 02 05	Google	$0.075	$0.300	Strong	Feb 5
189	Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite 001	Google	$0.075	$0.300	Strong	Feb 5
191	Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite	Google	$0.075	$0.300	Strong	Feb 5
97	Command R7b 12 2024 7B	OpenRouter*	$0.045	$0.180	—	Feb 3
51	DeepSeek Ocr	Novita AI	$0.030	$0.030	—	Jan 20

* Prices include ~20% OpenRouter platform fee (verified against actual billing).

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Frequently Asked Questions

The cheapest chat LLM API is Japanese Stable Diffusion XL via Fireworks AI at $0.0001 per million tokens (blended rate). There are 200 chat models available.