Best Value AI Models: Performance for the Price

Models from the performance ranking, re-sorted by output price, cheapest first. Scores are on the right.

RankModelOutput price (per 1M tokens)Score
1MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi$0.871480 pts
2Gemini 3.8 Flash Google$3.751494 pts
3Gemini 3.7 Flash Google$3.751488 pts
4Gemini 3.6 Flash Google$3.751483 pts
5Muse Spark 1.3 Meta$4.251495 pts
6Muse Spark 1.2 Meta$4.251494 pts
7Muse Spark 1.1 Meta$4.251492 pts
8GLM 5.3 Z.ai$4.41479 pts
9Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba$61481 pts
10Gemini 3.5 Flash Google$91477 pts
11GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI$101484 pts
12Gemini 3.1 Pro Google$121487 pts
13Kimi K3 Moonshot$13.51488 pts
14Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic$201504 pts
15Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic$251505 pts
16Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic$251502 pts
17Claude Opus 5 Anthropic$251491 pts
18Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic$251481 pts
19GPT-5.5 OpenAI$301481 pts
20Claude Fable 5 Anthropic$501505 pts
21Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic$501501 pts
22GPT-6 Astra OpenAI$501476 pts

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