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Best cheaper alternatives to Kimi K2

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Kimi K2 by Cerebras? 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-8B100% CHEAPER
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Qwen3.5 9B100% CHEAPER
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Gemini 1.5 Flash100% CHEAPER
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GPT-5.4 Nano100% CHEAPER
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Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku100% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview100% CHEAPER
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 397B A17B100% CHEAPER
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Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku100% CHEAPER
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Claude 4.5 Haiku100% CHEAPER
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OpenAI
GPT-5.3-Codex99% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 1.5 Pro99% CHEAPER
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.699% CHEAPER
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Claude 3 Sonnet99% CHEAPER
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet99% CHEAPER
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Claude 4.5 Sonnet99% CHEAPER
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Claude Opus 4.599% CHEAPER
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Claude Opus 4.699% CHEAPER
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Claude Opus 4.799% CHEAPER
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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.