Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Gemini 1.5 Flash
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Gemini 1.5 Flash by Google? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 13 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM Intelligence 48 1.0M context
Palmyra Vision97% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Llama 3.1 8B58% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision58% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Qwen Image Plus77% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B50% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Imagen 470% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Qwen Turbo33% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Better valueSame category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k56% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct50% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.044 in · $0.13 out / 1M Tokens 78%
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)9% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (63 vs 48)Same category
$0.07 in · $0.27 out / 1M Tokens 63 64K ctx 80%
Qwen Image MAX43% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.075 in · $0.075 out / image 78%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (76 vs 48)More modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $10 out / 1M Tokens 76 1.0M ctx 80%
GPT OSS 20B33% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 68%
Qwen 7B31% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.072 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 78%
o3
OpenAI
Smarter (78 vs 48)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
Smarter (73 vs 48)Same category
$0.55 in · $2.19 out / 1M Tokens 73 64K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (58 vs 48)Larger contextSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)
DeepSeek
Smarter (73 vs 48)Same category
$0.14 in · $0.55 out / 1M Tokens 73 64K ctx 80%
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.