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Best cheaper alternatives to Mistral Medium 3.5

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral AI? 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-8B98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash96% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash94% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B96% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextSame category
AI21 Labs
Jamba Mini92% CHEAPER
AI21 Labs
Larger contextSame category
Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview81% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
OpenAI
GPT-5 Mini90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
o190% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
o390% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
GPT-5.290% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Mini90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Nano90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
o4 Mini90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite81% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.5 397b87% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3 Next 80B86% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Nano85% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku83% CHEAPER
Anthropic
Larger contextSame category

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.