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: 2026-07-24 08:34:46 CEST

# Model Author Input / 1M Output / 1M Cost per task Orig Rank
1 Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) nvidia Free Free Free 7
2 DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek $0.10 $0.20 $0.000980 3
3 MiMo-V2.5 xiaomi $0.14 $0.28 $0.001400 1
4 DeepSeek V4 Pro deepseek $0.43 $0.87 $0.004350 5
5 Hy3 tencent $0.13 $0.53 $0.002376 8
6 MiniMax M3 minimax $0.30 $1.20 $0.005400 6
7 GLM 5.2 z-ai $0.77 $2.41 $0.011179 4
8 Step 3.7 Flash stepfun $0.20 $1.15 $0.005000 10
9 Claude Opus 4.8 anthropic $5.00 $25.00 $0.110000 9
10 Hy3 (free) tencent N/A N/A N/A 2

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