Pricing / High-volume cheap LLM inference
Cheapest price per million input tokens for High-volume cheap LLM 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. Cheapest sourced input $/1M among candidates is cloudflare-workers-ai at 0.017. The pick has no priceSortEligible input row.
| # | Provider | SKU | Input $/1M | Source | asOf / re-checked | First seen / last changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Workers AI | @cf/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro | $0.017 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 2 | Chutes | Qwen3.8-27B (Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-TEE) | $0.039 | page | 2026-10-27 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-19 |
| 3 | Z.AI (Zhipu GLM) | GLM-4.6V-FlashX | $0.04 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 4 | Groq | openai/gpt-oss-20b | $0.075 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 5 | DeepInfra | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | $0.1 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 6 | Together AI | GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.15 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 7 | Google AI (Gemini) | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | $0.3 | page | 2026-10-21 / not reconfirmed | 2026-10-21 / no change recorded |
| 8 | Cerebras | gpt-oss-120b | $0.35 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 9 | Mistral AI | Mistral Large | $0.5 | page | 2026-10-03 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
| 10 | Moonshot (Kimi) | kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | page | 2026-10-20 / 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 / no change recorded |
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