Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B by Google? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 5 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM Intelligence 36 1.0M context
Palmyra Vision94% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Qwen Image Plus54% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (76 vs 36)More modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $10 out / 1M Tokens 76 1.0M ctx 80%
o3
OpenAI
Smarter (78 vs 36)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
Llama 3.1 8B16% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision16% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Imagen 439% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
Smarter (73 vs 36)Same category
$0.55 in · $2.19 out / 1M Tokens 73 64K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (58 vs 36)Larger contextSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)
DeepSeek
Smarter (73 vs 36)Same category
$0.14 in · $0.55 out / 1M Tokens 73 64K ctx 80%
o1
OpenAI
Smarter (71 vs 36)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 71 200K ctx 82%
o4 Mini
OpenAI
Smarter (70 vs 36)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 70 200K ctx 82%
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google
Smarter (68 vs 36)Same category
$0.3 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 68 1.0M ctx 80%
o3-mini
OpenAI
Smarter (66 vs 36)Same category
$1.1 in · $4.4 out / 1M Tokens 66 200K ctx 98%
Magistral Medium
Mistral AI
Smarter (64 vs 36)Same category
$2 in · $5 out / 1M Tokens 64 128K ctx 95%
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek
Smarter (63 vs 36)Same category
$0.27 in · $1.1 out / 1M Tokens 63 64K ctx 98%
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)
DeepSeek
Smarter (63 vs 36)Same category
$0.07 in · $0.27 out / 1M Tokens 63 64K ctx 80%
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Smarter (62 vs 36)Same category
$3 in · $15 out / 1M Tokens 62 200K ctx 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.