Budget Friendly Leaderboard

Models ranked by Blended Price ($/1M tokens), based on independent benchmark evaluations.

Each row shows the model's benchmark score alongside its pricing and output speed, so you can evaluate quality-to-cost tradeoffs at a glance.

Top 20 models ranked by blended price ($/1m tokens)

Rank	Model	Creator	Blended Price ($/1M tokens)	Price/1M	Speed
🥇	LFM2 8B A1B Liquid AI	Liquid AI	$0.01	$0.01	—
🥈	LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B Liquid AI	Liquid AI	$0.01	$0.01	—
🥉	inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash InclusionAI	InclusionAI	$0.01	$0.01	194 tok/s
4	Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba	Alibaba	$0.02	$0.02	30 tok/s
5	Qwen3.5 0.8B (Non-reasoning) Alibaba	Alibaba	$0.02	$0.02	30 tok/s
6	Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Meta	Meta	$0.02	$0.02	—
7	Mistral: Mistral Nemo Mistral	Mistral	$0.02	$0.02	—
8	Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Google	Google	$0.03	$0.03	54 tok/s
9	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Meta	Meta	$0.03	$0.03	—
10	Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba	Alibaba	$0.04	$0.04	36 tok/s
11	Qwen3.5 2B (Non-reasoning) Alibaba	Alibaba	$0.04	$0.04	37 tok/s
12	IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro IBM	IBM	$0.04	$0.04	—
13	Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris Sao10k	Sao10k	$0.04	$0.04	—
14	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct Alibaba	Alibaba	$0.04	$0.04	—
15	Google: Gemma 2 9B Google	Google	$0.04	$0.04	—
16	Sarvam 30B (high) Sarvam	Sarvam	$0.05	$0.05	243 tok/s
17	Gemma 3 4B Instruct Google	Google	$0.05	$0.05	34 tok/s
18	Llama 3.2 Instruct 1B Meta	Meta	$0.05	$0.05	86 tok/s
19	LFM2 24B A2B Liquid AI	Liquid AI	$0.05	$0.05	111 tok/s
20	LiquidAI: LFM2-24B-A2B Liquid AI	Liquid AI	$0.05	$0.05	—