Prices
The cheapest LLM APIs, compared
At API prices as of October 2026, a typical message costs $0.0008 on Claude Haiku 5.5, the cheapest, and $0.0750 on GPT-6 Astra, the dearest. Here's every model in llmwise ranked in between, and which of them run on llmwise's everyday messages.
Ranked by the cost of a typical message
| Model | Input / output per 1M tokens | Typical message | Context window | In llmwise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.0008 | 1M tokens | 60/day on Pro |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.0008 | 1.05M tokens | 60/day on Pro |
| GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | $0.15 / $0.50 | $0.0010 | 1.05M tokens | 60/day on Pro |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.30 / $1.20 | $0.0020 | 1.05M tokens | 60/day on Pro |
| Mistral Large 4Mistral | $0.68 / $2.09 | $0.0042 | 1.05M tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | $0.40 / $4.00 | $0.0044 | 1.05M tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 / $3.75 | $0.0056 | 1.05M tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $1.00 / $5.00 | $0.0075 | 200K tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| GLM 5.3Z.ai | $1.40 / $4.40 | $0.0087 | 1.05M tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| Grok 4.7xAI | $2.00 / $6.00 | $0.0122 | 500K tokens | 250/mo on Pro |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | 1M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | 1M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | 1.05M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| GPT-6 SolOpenAI | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | 1.05M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)Google | $2.00 / $12.00 | $0.0164 | 1.05M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| Kimi K3Moonshot | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.0225 | 1.05M tokens | 125/mo on Pro |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 / $20.00 | $0.0300 | 1M tokens | 62/mo on Pro |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.0750 | 1M tokens | 31/mo on Pro |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.0750 | 1.05M tokens | 31/mo on Pro |
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
The cheapest models in llmwise
Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and GLM 5.3 Flash are everyday models: a message uses one everyday message, never the monthly allowance. Paid plans have 60 to 200 a day; on Free they're part of its one-time trial of 5 messages.
API or chat?
Building an app, a script or a pipeline that calls a model? You need an API: the provider's own, or a router in front of several. llmwise isn't one.
Want to ask questions, write, analyse files or code with a model yourself? A chat is simpler: no keys, no token maths, and in llmwise a fixed price per message you see before you send.
Questions
What is the cheapest LLM API?
Of the models in llmwise, Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) has the cheapest typical message at API prices as of October 2026: $0.0008. The full ranking is above.
Which models are cheapest to use in llmwise?
Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and GLM 5.3 Flash run on everyday messages: 60 a day on Pro, without touching the monthly allowance. On Free they're part of its one-time trial of 5 messages.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kimi, GLM, and Mistral, in one chat.
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