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Best cheaper alternatives to AYA Expanse

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for AYA Expanse by Cohere? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.

Category: LLM 128K context
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B95% CHEAPER
Google
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B91% CHEAPER
Together AI
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Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash89% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash86% CHEAPER
Google
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 3B92% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Meta
Llama 3.2 11B Vision96% CHEAPER
Meta
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OpenAI
GPT-5 Mini75% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
o375% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT-5.275% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Mini75% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Nano75% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
o4 Mini75% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 8B88% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Mistral AI
Mistral Small 488% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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AI21 Labs
Jamba Mini80% CHEAPER
AI21 Labs
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 14B84% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k95% CHEAPER
Groq
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Fireworks AI
OpenAI GPT OSS 20B90% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
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Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.