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Self-hosting, data-sensitive workloads, and avoiding vendor lock-in
Classification, routing, extraction, and ultra-budget workloads
Budget-friendly chatbots, classification, and high-volume simple tasks
High-speed, budget workloads that benefit from large context windows
Budget coding tasks and open-weight enthusiasts
Budget-friendly long-context tasks and coding assistance
Math, logic, and tasks requiring step-by-step reasoning
High-volume, cost-sensitive workloads: classification, extraction, simple chat
Long document processing, research, and tasks needing massive context
Coding tasks, long-context processing, and instruction-heavy workflows
European teams needing data sovereignty and strong multilingual support
General-purpose tasks, multimodal apps, and teams in the OpenAI ecosystem
Best all-rounder for coding, chat, and most production workloads
Complex reasoning, agentic workflows, and tasks requiring deep analysis
| Model | Per request | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 Maverickcheapest | <$0.01 | <$0.01/mo | |
| GPT-4.1 nano | <$0.01 | $1.2/mo | |
| GPT-4o mini | <$0.01 | $1.8/mo | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | <$0.01 | $1.8/mo | |
| DeepSeek V3 | <$0.01 | $3.3/mo | |
| GPT-4.1 mini | <$0.01 | $4.8/mo | |
| DeepSeek R1 | <$0.01 | $6.6/mo | |
| Claude Haiku 3.5 | <$0.01 | $10.8/mo | |
| Mistral Large | <$0.01 | $21.0/mo | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | <$0.01 | $22.5/mo | |
| GPT-4.1 | <$0.01 | $24.0/mo | |
| GPT-4o | $0.01 | $30.0/mo | |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | $0.01 | $40.5/mo | |
| Claude Opus 4 | $0.07 | $203/mo |
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