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Cheapest LLM APIs (2026)

The lowest-cost models per 1M tokens (blended), all callable from one Appmo key.
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LiquidAI: LFM3-1.7B (free) Open weights · custom licenseliquid$0$0262K
Crouton Alpha Reads imagesstealth$0$01M
Recursive: Flint (free) Open weights · apache-2.0recursive$0$0262K
XingChen: Xing4.0 29B A4B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0xingchen-agi$0$0262K
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) Open weightsReads imagesnvidia$0$01M
Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free) Reads imagesdots-studio$0$0512K
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B (free) Open weights · custom licenseliquid$0$065K
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0$01M
Cohere: North Mini Code (free) Open weights · apache-2.0cohere$0$0256K
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0$01M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) Open weights · custom licenseReads imagesnvidia$0$0256K
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262K
Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262K
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview Reads imagesgoogle$0$01M
Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview Reads imagesgoogle$0$01M
Free Models Router Reads imagesopenrouter$0$0200K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny Open weights · mitinclusionai$0.015$0.045262K
Mistral: Mistral Nemo Open weights · apache-2.0mistralai$0.029$0.03131K
ScaleDown: Summarize Reads imagesscaledown$0.04$01M
ScaleDown: Extract Reads imagesscaledown$0.04$01M
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Open weights · mitinclusionai$0.021$0.063262K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.021$0.079131K
Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris Open weights · llama3sao10k$0.04$0.058K
Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Mini Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesnex-agi$0.025$0.1262K
Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest Reads images~z-ai$0.0335$0.0831M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Open weights · mitReads imagesz-ai$0.0335$0.0831M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.024$0.112131K
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash Reads imagesqwen$0.03$0.131M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.03$0.13131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.0296$0.136131K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.011$0.21M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.011$0.21M
Mistral: Mistral Small 3 Open weights · apache-2.0mistralai$0.05$0.0832K
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Open weights · llama3.1meta-llama$0.05$0.08131K
Inference.net: Schematron V2 Turbo Open weightsinference-net$0.03$0.15128K
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 amazon$0.035$0.14128K
Google: Gemma 3 4B Open weights · gemmaReads imagesgoogle$0.05$0.1131K
Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024) cohere$0.0375$0.15128K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash inclusionai$0.045$0.1351M
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (batch) Reads imagesopenai$0.025$0.2400K