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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
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B99% CHEAPER
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Qwen3.5 9B99% CHEAPER
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Gemini 1.5 Flash99% CHEAPER
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OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Nano96% CHEAPER
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Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku96% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview95% CHEAPER
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OpenAI
GPT-5 Mini97% CHEAPER
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o397% CHEAPER
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OpenAI
GPT-5.297% CHEAPER
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OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Mini97% CHEAPER
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GPT 4.1 Nano97% CHEAPER
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o4 Mini97% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash98% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite95% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 2.5 Flash93% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 3 Flash Preview90% CHEAPER
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 397B A17B88% CHEAPER
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Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku86% CHEAPER
Anthropic
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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.