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Best cheaper alternatives to IS Priced PER 1M
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for IS Priced PER 1M by Sakana? 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 272K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B100% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash99% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
GPT 4.1 Mini99% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Nano99% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 41 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT-5.593% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
$0.5 in · $5 out / 1M Tokens 1.1M ctx 82%
Gemini 2.0 Flash99% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 2.5 Flash96% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.3 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 68 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview95% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$0.5 in · $3 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Grok 4.393% CHEAPER
xAI
Larger contextSame category
$1.25 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 1M ctx 80%
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1M97% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
$0.805 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 1M ctx 78%
Gemini 3.5 Flash85% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$1.5 in · $9 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 2.5 Pro85% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$1.25 in · $10 out / 1M Tokens 76 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview80% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$2 in · $12 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 1.5 Pro77% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k100% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Ministral 3 3B100% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K 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.