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Best cheaper alternatives to Mistral Nemo

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Mistral Nemo by Mistral AI? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 16 options are meaningfully cheaper.

Category: LLM Intelligence 39 128K context
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B78% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueLarger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Meta
Llama 3.2 11B Vision82% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash56% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (48 vs 39)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)60% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (63 vs 39)Same category
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B82% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash42% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (56 vs 39)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Turbo71% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Better valueSmarter (45 vs 39)Same category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Image Plus90% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
Writer
Palmyra Vision99% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
OpenAI
o3
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (78 vs 39)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Imagen 487% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B62% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Mistral AI
Ministral 3 8B50% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueMore modalitiesSame category
Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k81% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
Mistral AI
Mistral Small50% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueSmarter (44 vs 39)Same category
OpenAI
o4 Mini
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (70 vs 39)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)19% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (73 vs 39)Same category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct78% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same 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.