AI model guides

Rankings and buyers’ guides generated from live catalog data — updated whenever pricing changes.

The cheapest AI models

The cheapest large language models ranked by input price per 1M tokens, from Gemini Flash and GPT-5 nano to open-weight options.

The best AI models for coding

The strongest AI models for code generation, refactoring and agentic development — ranked by capability and price.

The best AI models for chatbots

Top AI models for building chatbots and assistants, balancing response speed, quality and cost per 1M tokens.

AI models with the longest context windows

AI models ranked by context window size — from 2M-token Gemini down — for long documents, RAG and whole-codebase tasks.

The best vision AI models

Multimodal AI models that understand images and video, ranked by capability and price per 1M tokens.

The fastest AI models

Low-latency AI models built for speed and high throughput, ranked by price per 1M tokens.

The best value AI models

Frontier-quality AI models that stay affordable, ranked by input price to maximise quality per dollar.

The best open-weight AI models

Open-weight AI models you can self-host from Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral, ranked by price per 1M tokens.

Anthropic AI models

Every Anthropic AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

DeepSeek AI models

Every DeepSeek AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

Google AI models

Every Google AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

Meta AI models

Every Meta AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

Mistral AI models

Every Mistral AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

OpenAI AI models

Every OpenAI AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.

xAI AI models

Every xAI AI model with pricing, context windows and modalities, ranked by input price per 1M tokens.