Pricing / Ultra-budget open-model inference
Cheapest price per million input tokens for Ultra-budget open-model inference
Unit: usd_per_million_input_tokens only — nothing converted or blended. min sourced input SKU among candidates; not quality-adjusted. Updated 2026-10-27 (newest asOf / re-check on this page).
Pick is not a price winner. deepinfra sourced input $/1M is 0.1; cheapest among candidates is chutes at 0.039.
| # | Provider | SKU | Input $/1M | Source | asOf / re-checked | First seen / last changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chutes | Qwen3.8-27B (Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-TEE) | $0.039 | page | 2026-10-27 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-19 |
| 2 | Z.AI (Zhipu GLM) | GLM-4.6V-FlashX | $0.04 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 3 | DeepInfraDepot Pick | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | $0.1 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 4 | MiniMax | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash | $0.15 | page | 2026-10-19 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-19 / no change recorded |
Price only: not quality-, latency- or limit-adjusted. The Depot Pick is editorial and is not chosen by price. Brief: /jtbds/budget-open-inference · Agents: GET /api/quote?jtbd=budget-open-inference