Best under $0.50/M

Highest quality for budget workloads, below fifty cents per million tokens.

As of 25 Oct 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash by Zhipu AI leads this list ($0.238/M), ahead of MiniMax M3.1 Flash ($0.262/M).

113 models qualify · data as of 25 Oct 2026

1. 1GLM 5.3 Flash62.7
2. 2MiniMax M3.1 Flash61.9
3. 3Claude Haiku 5.5 (xhigh)61.5
4. 4Qwen3.8-Flash-Next60.3
5. 5GPT-6 Luna (max)60
6. 6GPT-5.6 Luna (max)59.9
7. 7MiMo-V2.6-Flash59.7
8. 8DeepSeek V4 Flash (max)59.4
9. 9Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta59.1
10. 10Qwen3.5 Plus (thinking)57.3
11. 11DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (max)57
12. 12DeepSeek V3.256.6
13. 13Gemma 4 26B A4B56.2
14. 14GPT-5 nano55.9
15. 15Quasar 438B (max)55.8

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#	Model	Index ↓	Price $/M ↕	Speed tok/s ↕
1	GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AIopen ↗	62.7	$0.238	69
2	NewMiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxopen ↗	61.9	$0.262	96
3	Claude Haiku 5.5xhighAnthropic	61.5	$0.200	190
4	Qwen3.8-Flash-NextAlibabaopen ↗	60.3	$0.230	52
5	GPT-6 LunamaxOpenAI	60	$0.200	137
6	GPT-5.6 LunamaxOpenAI	59.9	$0.450	126
7	MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiopen ↗	59.7	$0.175	59
8	DeepSeek V4 FlashmaxDeepSeekopen ↗	59.4	$0.175	149
9	Agnes 2.5 Pro BetaSapiens AI	59.1	$0.150	113
10	Qwen3.5 PlusthinkingAlibaba	57.3	$0.258	54
11	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420maxDeepSeekopen	57	$0.140	47
12	DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeekopen ↗	56.6	$0.315	17
13	Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogleopen ↗	56.2	$0.198	46
14	GPT-5 nanoOpenAI	55.9	$0.138	82
15	Quasar 438BmaxMultiverse Computing	55.8	$0.165	172
16	Ling 3.0 Flash VLAnt Groupopen ↗	55.5	$0.111	–
17	Grok 4.1 FastthinkingSpaceXAI	54.7	$0.275	–
18	MiMo-V2.5Xiaomiopen ↗	54.3	$0.165	75
19	Ling 3.0 Flash FinAnt Groupopen	54.3	$0.111	–
20	GPT-5.4 NanoxhighOpenAI	54.2	$0.463	165
21	Step 3.5 FlashStepFunopen ↗	53.7	$0.150	144
22	Ling 3.0 FlashAnt Groupopen ↗	52.8	$0.115	319
23	MiMo-V2-FlashthinkingXiaomiopen ↗	52.4	$0.150	–
24	Qwen3.5 FlashAlibaba	52	$0.094	87
25	Gemma 4 31BthinkingGoogleopen ↗	52	$0.250	36
26	Step 3.7 FlashStepFunopen ↗	51.5	$0.438	171
27	Grok 4 FastthinkingSpaceXAI	51.4	$0.275	–
28	GLM 4.7 FlashZhipu AIopen ↗	51.3	$0.153	45
29	GLM 4.5VZhipu AIopen ↗	50.9	$0.448	46
30	Step 3.5 Flash 0202StepFunopen	50.7	$0.150	148
31	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12BthinkingNVIDIAopen ↗	50.6	$0.450	155
32	Gemma 4 12BthinkingGoogleopen ↗	50.5	$0.150	120
33	Qwen3 235B A22B 2507Alibabaopen ↗	50.4	$0.368	37
34	Qwen3-Next 80B A3BthinkingAlibabaopen ↗	49.3	$0.350	96
35	Qwen3.5-9BthinkingAlibabaopen ↗	49	$0.155	59
36	Granite 4.2 30BIBMopen ↗	48.7	$0.283	75
37	gpt-oss-120bhighOpenAIopen ↗	48.5	$0.262	208
38	Qwen-PlusAlibaba	48.5	$0.158	52
39	Qwen3 30B A3BAlibabaopen ↗	48.3	$0.215	118
40	Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle	48.3	$0.175	–
41	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 09thinkingGoogle	47.9	$0.175	–
42	Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIAopen ↗	47.4	$0.095	288
43	Qwen3 VL 32B InstructthinkingAlibabaopen ↗	47	$0.280	–
44	Trinity LargethinkingArcee AIopen	46.9	$0.388	357
45	Mercury 2Inception	46.9	$0.375	451
46	Qwen3 14BAlibabaopen ↗	46.9	$0.251	80
47	Seed-OSS-36B-InstructByteDanceopen ↗	46.8	$0.300	38
48	GLM-4.5-AirZhipu AIopen ↗	46.6	$0.373	77
49	Qwen3.5-4BthinkingAlibabaopen ↗	46.6	$0.060	17
50	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BthinkingNVIDIAopen ↗	46.5	$0.088	235
51	Granite 4.2 8BIBMopen ↗	46.1	$0.108	87
52	Qwen3 30B A3B 2507Alibabaopen ↗	45.6	$0.150	184
53	Mistral Small 4thinkingMistral AIopen	45.6	$0.262	183
54	Mercury 2.5Inception	45.3	$0.375	689
55	Granite 4.2 3BIBMopen ↗	44.8	$0.053	99
56	Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba	44.6	$0.275	234
57	Gemma 4 E4BthinkingGoogleopen ↗	44.5	$0.040	41
58	Ling Flash 2.0Ant Groupopen	44.4	$0.248	4
59	gpt-oss-20bhighOpenAIopen ↗	44.3	$0.093	152
60	GLM 4.6VthinkingZhipu AIopen ↗	44.2	$0.450	89

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