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Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 Coder 480b
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen3 Coder 480b 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 262K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash96% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 2.0 Flash94% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
GPT-5 Mini90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
GPT-5.290% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Mini90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Nano90% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 41 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT-5.4 Nano85% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview81% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite81% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Ministral 3 3B97% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B96% CHEAPER
Together AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Ministral 3 8B95% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.15 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 37 128K ctx 98%
Ministral 3 14B93% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Google Gemma 4 31B IT91% CHEAPER
Together AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $0.5 out / 1M Tokens 98%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision98% CHEAPER
Meta
More modalitiesSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.2 90B Vision92% CHEAPER
Meta
More modalitiesSame category
$0.23 in · $0.23 out / 1M Tokens 54 128K ctx 85%
Mistral Small 495% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
More modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
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.