Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Deepseek V4
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Deepseek V4 by Fireworks AI? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 12 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM
Palmyra Vision96% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Qwen Image Plus71% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Imagen 462% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision47% CHEAPER
Meta
More modalitiesSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.1 8B47% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B37% CHEAPER
Google
More modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k45% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct37% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.044 in · $0.13 out / 1M Tokens 78%
Qwen Image MAX28% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.075 in · $0.075 out / image 78%
Qwen Turbo16% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
GPT OSS 20B16% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 68%
Qwen 7B13% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.072 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 78%
Ministral 3 3B
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B
Together AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash
Google
More modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.15 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 37 128K ctx 98%
Ministral 3 14B
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Google Gemma 4 31B IT
Together AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $0.5 out / 1M Tokens 98%
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.