Composite "best for X" tables ranked from live catalog data, plus per-benchmark top 10s at the bottom. Only official and auditable third-party benchmark scores — no in-house evals.
Lowest blended price / 1M tokens for models tagged chat or multilingual. Picked the cheapest hosting per model.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doubao Lite 32K ByteDance | $0.05 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 2 | GLM-4-Air Zhipu AI | $0.07 | Zhipu AI | 131K |
| 3 | Yi Lightning 01.AI | $0.14 | 01.AI | 16K |
| 4 | Doubao Pro 32K ByteDance | $0.15 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 5 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 6 | DeepSeek Chat V3.1 DeepSeek · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 131K |
| 7 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $0.88 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 8 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba · open-weight | $0.90 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 9 | Qwen 2.5 Max Alibaba Cloud | $2.80 | Alibaba Cloud DashScope | 33K |
| 10 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $3.00 | Fireworks.ai | 131K |
Lowest blended price for reasoning / chain-of-thought / tool-use models. Same pricing methodology as the chat board.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLM-4-Air Zhipu AI | $0.07 | Zhipu AI | 131K |
| 2 | Yi Lightning 01.AI | $0.14 | 01.AI | 16K |
| 3 | Doubao Pro 32K ByteDance | $0.15 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 4 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 5 | DeepSeek Chat V3.1 DeepSeek · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 131K |
| 6 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $0.88 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 7 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba · open-weight | $0.90 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 8 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.96 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 9 | Qwen 2.5 Max Alibaba Cloud | $2.80 | Alibaba Cloud DashScope | 33K |
| 10 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $3.00 | Fireworks.ai | 131K |
Chat / reasoning / multimodal models ranked by context window. For document Q&A, whole-repo code review, or long transcripts. Embedding / image-gen / video types excluded — their 'context' is a different quantity.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $0.88 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 2 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba · open-weight | $0.90 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 3 | DeepSeek Chat V3.1 DeepSeek · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 131K |
| 4 | GLM-4-Air Zhipu AI | $0.07 | Zhipu AI | 131K |
| 5 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $3.00 | Fireworks.ai | 131K |
| 6 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 7 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.96 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 8 | Qwen 2.5 Max Alibaba Cloud | $2.80 | Alibaba Cloud DashScope | 33K |
| 9 | Doubao Pro 32K ByteDance | $0.15 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 10 | Doubao Lite 32K ByteDance | $0.05 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
Models that ship weights you can self-host. Ordered by context window — biggest first.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $0.88 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 2 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba · open-weight | $0.90 | Together.ai | 131K |
| 3 | DeepSeek Chat V3.1 DeepSeek · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 131K |
| 4 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $3.00 | Fireworks.ai | 131K |
| 5 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 66K |
| 6 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.96 | DeepSeek | 66K |
Filter: `code` capability. Ranked by top HumanEval / LiveCodeBench / SWE-bench score when available — otherwise the model is hidden to avoid a misleading placeholder.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.96 | DeepSeek | 66K | 89.1% HumanEval |
| 2 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta · open-weight | $0.88 | Together.ai | 131K | 88.4% HumanEval |
| 3 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 66K | 82.5% HumanEval |
Models whose every published hosting sits on a Provider without an overseas node. For CN-mainland users who don't want cross-border egress.
| # | Model | Cheapest / 1M | Via | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doubao Lite 32K ByteDance | $0.05 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 2 | GLM-4-Air Zhipu AI | $0.07 | Zhipu AI | 131K |
| 3 | Doubao Pro 32K ByteDance | $0.15 | ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) | 33K |
| 4 | DeepSeek Chat V3.1 DeepSeek · open-weight | $0.48 | DeepSeek | 131K |
Existing published benchmark scores — sourced from papers or auditable third-party boards. Click any model to see its full profile.
| # | Model | Score | Conditions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI | 0.89 | 0-shot pass@1 | official |
| 2 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta | 0.88 | 0-shot pass@1 | official |
| 3 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI | 0.82 | 0-shot pass@1 | official |
| 4 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba | 0.82 | 0-shot pass@1 | official |
| # | Model | Score | Conditions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek AI | 0.90 | 5-shot | official |
| 2 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek AI | 0.89 | 5-shot | official |
| 3 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta | 0.87 | 5-shot | official |
| 4 | Qwen3 72B Instruct Alibaba | 0.86 | 5-shot | official |
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