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Best AI models Under $0.50 / 1M tokens

As of November 7, 2026, inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is the top-quality model priced under $0.50 / 1m tokens, scoring 41.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index among 33 eligible models in this price tier.

  1. #1 inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash - Quality 41.1 · $0.07/1M
  2. #2 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) - Quality 36.5 · $0.20/1M
  3. #3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - Quality 31.7 · $0.40/1M
  4. #4 MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash - Quality 29.1 · $0.26/1M
  5. #5 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - Quality 28.6 · $0.26/1M
  6. #6 Upstage: Solar Pro 4 - Quality 28.2 · $0.26/1M
  7. #7 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - Quality 27.9 · $0.20/1M
  8. #8 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - Quality 27.8 · $0.24/1M
33 models priced under $0.50 / 1m tokens
#ModelQualityPrice/1M
01inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash41.1$0.07
02Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)36.5$0.20
03Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)31.7$0.40
04MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash29.1$0.26
05DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)28.6$0.26
06Upstage: Solar Pro 428.2$0.26
07OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)27.9$0.20
08Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)27.8$0.24
09Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash26.7$0.18
10Upstage: Solar Mini 424.1$0.09
11OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)23.8$0.45
12Reflection: Beam 1.0 501B A23B17.7$0.47
13NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)13.6$0.24
14NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super12.8$0.16
15Inception: Mercury 2.512.3$0.07
16OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)11.6$0.02
17Inception: Mercury 211.5$0.38
18Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B11.2$0.19
19Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking10.8$0.39
20OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano (batch)9.6$0.17
21Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next9.2$0.29
22OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)9$0.05
23NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B8.9$0.10
24Upstage: Solar Pro 37.8$0.26
25Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 25126$0.20
26Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 25125.5$0.15
27NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)5.5$0.10
28IBM: Granite 4.2 8B5.1$0.11
29Google: Gemma 3 27B4.9$0.15
30Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 25124.8$0.10
31Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)4.4$0.25
32Mistral: Mistral Small 44.3$0.26
33Google: Gemma 3 12B3.8$0.07

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.