Every provider
16 providers tracked. “Cheapest model” is by blended rate, not by input price alone — a model with cheap input and expensive output is not a cheap model.
| Provider | Country | Models | Cheapest model | Its input rate | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | US | 16 | Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.1 | Unclear |
| OpenAI | US | 31 | GPT-5 Nano | $0.05 | No free tier |
| US | 15 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.1 | Ongoing free tier | |
| DeepSeek | CN | 5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.28 | No free tier |
| Moonshot AI | CN | 6 | Kimi K2.6 | $0.6 | No free tier |
| Alibaba (Qwen) | CN | 7 | Qwen 3.8 Flash | $0.15 | One-time credit |
| Z.ai (GLM) | CN | 13 | GLM-4 32B | $0.1 | Ongoing free tier |
| MiniMax | CN | 4 | MiniMax M2 | $0.3 | Unclear |
| xAI | US | 10 | Grok Build 0.1 | $1 | No free tier |
| Mistral AI | FR | 6 | Codestral 25.08 | $0.3 | Ongoing free tier |
| Cohere | CA | 3 | Command R | $0.15 | Ongoing free tier |
| Amazon | US | 5 | Nova Micro | $0.035 | One-time credit |
| Meta | US | 2 | Muse Spark 1.3 | $1.25 | No free tier |
| Xiaomi (MiMo) | CN | 2 | MiMo V2.6 Flash | $0.14 | Unclear |
| Inception | US | 2 | Mercury 2.5 | $0.2 | One-time credit |
| Microsoft | US | 1 | MAI-Thinking-1 | $2 | Unclear |