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LLM API Alternatives

Start from a popular model, then review lower-cost alternatives by workload estimate, input price, output price, provider, and context window.

Page updated: 2026-11-03T20:07:34Z Data confirmed: 2026-11-03T20:07:34Z Alternatives are filtered from current model metadata Lower price does not guarantee model quality or availability

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Use cheaper alternatives to build a test shortlist, not as automatic replacements.

Price, context, provider fit, latency, model quality, and policy constraints all matter. This page helps you find candidates worth testing before committing spend.

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Alternatives to New🔥Kimi K3.1 Pro Baseline: $7 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to New🔥DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Baseline: $0.45 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to 🔥GLM 5.3 Flash Baseline: $0.15 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to 🔥DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Baseline: $0.29 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to 🔥Hy4 preview Baseline: $1.88 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to 🔥GPT-6 Luna Baseline: $0.35 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to 🔥Claude Opus 5.5 Baseline: $14 sample workload, 1M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

Alternatives to New🔥MiniMax M3.1 Flash Baseline: $0.22 sample workload, 1.05M context

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
NewFlint (free)	Recursive	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
NewMiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	MiniMax	$0	$0	$0	1M
NewXing4.0 29B A4B (free)	XingChen	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)	Apodex	$0	$0	$0	262.14K