OpenRouter Programming Models — Value for Money

Data scraped from OpenRouter Rankings — Programming section. Cost calculated for 2,000 input + 4,000 output tokens per task.

Generated: 2026-09-22 06:45:17 CEST

# Model Author Input / 1M Output / 1M Cost per task (2k in + 4k out) Orig Rank
1 Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) nvidia Free Free Free 7
2 GLM 5.3 Flash z-ai $0.15 $0.50 $0.002300 2
3 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash deepseek $0.15 $0.60 $0.002700 1
4 MiMo-V2.5 xiaomi $0.14 $0.28 $0.001400 6
5 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 deepseek $0.04 $0.64 $0.002640 4
6 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 deepseek $0.09 $0.18 $0.000886 9
7 Hy3 tencent $0.13 $0.53 $0.002376 8
8 GPT-5.6 Luna openai $0.20 $1.20 $0.005200 5
9 Hy4 preview tencent $0.83 $2.50 $0.011672 3
10 GLM 5.3 z-ai $0.84 $2.64 $0.012240 10

Prices are per 1M tokens on OpenRouter. Cost = (2,000 × input/1M) + (4,000 × output/1M).