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↓
40	Paddlepaddle Paddleocr VL	Novita AI	$0.020	$0.020	—	Jun 30
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
30	Qwen3 Embedding 4B Batch	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
32	Qwen3 Embedding 0 6B	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	Good	Apr 28
37	Qwen3 Embedding 4B	Deepinfra	$0.020	Free	Good	Apr 28
38	Qwen3 Reranker 4B	Deepinfra	$0.025	Free	Good	Apr 28
48	Qwen3 4B Fp8	Novita AI	$0.030	$0.030	Good	Apr 28
49	Qwen3 Embedding 8B Batch	Deepinfra	$0.040	Free	Good	Apr 28
44	Google: Gemma 3n 4B 4B	Together AI	$0.020	$0.040	—	Mar 12
47	DeepSeek Ocr	Novita AI	$0.030	$0.030	—	Jan 20
6	LFM2 24B A2B Preview	Together AI	$0.0001	$0.0005	—	Oct 1
35	LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B 6B	OpenRouter*	$0.012	$0.024	—	Oct 1
36	LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B 8B	OpenRouter*	$0.012	$0.024	—	Oct 1
23	Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct 1BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.0050	$0.010	Budget	Sep 25
39	Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 3BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.020	$0.020	Good	Sep 25
7	Flux 1 Schnell Fp8	Fireworks AI	$0.0003	$0.0003	—	Aug 1
8	Flux 1 Dev Fp8	Fireworks AI	$0.0005	$0.0005	—	Aug 1
9	Flux 1 Dev Controlnet Union	Fireworks AI	$0.0010	$0.0010	—	Aug 1
42	Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo	Deepinfra	$0.020	$0.030	Good	Jul 23
45	Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct 8B	Novita AI	$0.020	$0.050	Good	Jul 23
43	Mistralai Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407	Deepinfra	$0.020	$0.040	—	Jul 18
46	Mistral: Mistral Nemo Open	OpenRouter*	$0.024	$0.048	—	Jul 18
10	Embeddinggemma 300M	Deepinfra	$0.0020	Free	—	Jun 27
50	Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct 8BOpen	Deepinfra	$0.030	$0.040	—	Apr 18
1	Japanese Stable Diffusion XL	Fireworks AI	$0.0001	$0.0001	—	Mar 1
13	Intfloat E5 Base V2	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jan 1
25	Intfloat E5 Large V2	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Jan 1
27	Intfloat Multilingual E5 Large	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Jan 1
2	Playground V2.1024px Aesthetic	Fireworks AI	$0.0001	$0.0001	—	Dec 1
4	Playground V2.5 1024px Aesthetic	Fireworks AI	$0.0001	$0.0001	—	Dec 1
3	Ssd 1B	Fireworks AI	$0.0001	$0.0001	—	Oct 1
14	Thenlper Gte Base	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Oct 1
33	Thenlper Gte Large	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Oct 1
21	Baai Bge Base EN V1 5	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Aug 1
24	Baai Bge EN Icl	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Aug 1
26	Baai Bge Large EN V1 5	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Aug 1
29	Baai Bge M3 Multi	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Aug 1
31	Baai Bge M3	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Aug 1
34	Baai Bge Reranker V2 M3	Novita AI	$0.010	$0.010	—	Aug 1
5	Stable Diffusion XL 1024	Fireworks AI	$0.0001	$0.0001	—	Jul 26
11	Sentence Transformers All Mpnet Base V2	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
15	Sentence Transformers All Minilm L12 V2	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
16	Sentence Transformers Clip Vit B 32 Multilingual V1	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
17	Sentence Transformers Clip Vit B 32	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
18	Sentence Transformers Paraphrase Minilm L6 V2	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
20	Sentence Transformers Multi QA Mpnet Base Dot V1	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
22	Sentence Transformers All Minilm L6 V2	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jun 1
19	Shibing624 Text2vec Base Chinese	Deepinfra	$0.0050	Free	—	Jan 1
41	meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo	Deepinfra	$0.020	$0.030	Good	Feb 23

* 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.