Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen Deep Research
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen Deep Research by Alibaba Cloud? 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 131K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B99% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B99% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash99% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
GPT-5.4 Nano96% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Claude 3 Haiku96% CHEAPER
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 33 200K ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview95% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
GPT-5 Mini97% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
o397% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
GPT-5.297% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Mini97% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Nano97% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 41 1.0M ctx 82%
o4 Mini97% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 70 200K ctx 82%
Gemini 2.0 Flash98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite95% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 2.5 Flash93% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.3 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 68 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview90% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.5 in · $3 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Qwen3.5 397B A17B88% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.6 in · $3.6 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Claude 3.5 Haiku86% CHEAPER
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.8 in · $4 out / 1M Tokens 49 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.