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Price-band ranking

Best AI models $0.50-2 / 1M tokens

As of November 7, 2026, Tencent: Hy4 is the top-quality model priced $0.50-2 / 1m tokens, scoring 34.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index among 34 eligible models in this price tier.

  1. #1 Tencent: Hy4 - Quality 34.6 · $0.63/1M
  2. #2 Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) - Quality 30.8 · $1.65/1M
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro - Quality 29.9 · $0.54/1M
  4. #4 StepFun: Step 5 Preview - Quality 28.5 · $1.42/1M
  5. #5 Z.ai: GLM 5 - Quality 27.9 · $1.55/1M
  6. #6 Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo - Quality 26.6 · $1.90/1M
  7. #7 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) - Quality 26.3 · $1.13/1M
  8. #8 Mistral: Mistral Large 4 - Quality 26.1 · $1.05/1M
34 models priced $0.50-2 / 1m tokens
#ModelQualityPrice/1M
01Tencent: Hy434.6$0.63
02Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)30.8$1.65
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro29.9$0.54
04StepFun: Step 5 Preview28.5$1.42
05Z.ai: GLM 527.9$1.55
06Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo26.6$1.90
07Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)26.3$1.13
08Mistral: Mistral Large 426.1$1.05
09SpaceXAI: Grok 4.2025.7$1.56
10Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo23.5$1.90
11DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 042323.1$1.25
12Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B22.9$0.84
13MiniMax: MiniMax M2.522.8$0.52
14MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking22$1.08
15Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking21.3$1.56
16Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (batch)20.1$0.58
17MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)18.9$0.52
18Amazon: Nova 2 Lite18.4$0.85
19OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch)16.8$0.69
20OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini (batch)14.8$0.70
21Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)12.9$0.64
22Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 250712.7$1.21
23Thinking Machines: Inkling12.5$1.76
24NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)11.8$1.05
25Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)11.7$0.85
26DeepSeek: R111.4$1.15
27OpenAI: o3 Mini High11$1.93
28Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 25079.8$0.75
29DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 03249.7$0.50
30Mistral: Mistral Large 3 25129.3$0.75
31Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.19.2$0.80
32Mistral: Devstral 2 25128.6$0.80
33Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)6.3$0.52
34Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview6.2$0.56

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of November 7, 2026.

Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

Token counts originate from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers.