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Cheapest open model API prices in October 2026, from $0.039
Lowest input and output prices for 8 new open-weight models.
RouterPlus lists eight of the newest open-weight models from as little as $0.039 per million input tokens. These are the lowest prices per million tokens for each, from the live catalog on October 31, 2026.
What changed
- Qwen3.8 27B has the lowest input price in the table, $0.039 on Chutes.
- GLM 5.3 Flash has the lowest output price, $0.20, and its lowest input price, $0.05, comes from the same provider, Wafer.
- GLM 5.3 has the most providers in the catalog, 11.
- Mistral released the Mistral Large 4 weights on October 29 and set its API price at $0.70 input and $2.10 output. RouterPlus lists it on 1 provider.
- Reflection AI released the Beam weights on October 16 under Apache 2.0. RouterPlus lists it on 1 provider.
Lowest prices by model
Prices per million tokens. The lowest input and lowest output for a model can come from different providers.
| Model | Model ID | Lowest input | Lowest output | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.039 (Chutes) | $0.40 (RunInfra) | 6 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | z-ai/glm-5.3-flash | $0.05 (Wafer) | $0.20 (Wafer) | 10 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | $0.09 (Sail Research) | $0.30 (Sail Research) | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash | $0.12 (Morph) | $0.42 (DeepInfra) | 9 |
| Beam 1.0 501B A23B | reflection/beam-1.0-501b-a23b | $0.25 (Nebius) | $1.00 (Nebius) | 1 |
| GLM 5.3 | z-ai/glm-5.3 | $0.30 (Wafer) | $2.50 (DeepInfra) | 11 |
| Mistral Large 4 | mistral-large-4 | $0.70 (Mistral AI) | $2.10 (Mistral AI) | 1 |
| Kimi K3 | moonshotai/kimi-k3 | $1.50 (Sail Research) | $9.50 (Chutes) | 9 |
What to do
- Sign up at app.routerplus.com/login and call any model in the table with one API key at
https://api.routerplus.com/v1, using its model ID. - Prices change. Check the model page or the full model list before you commit to a provider.