Every paid AI model ranked by quality-per-dollar. The Value Index measures composite score divided by output cost per million tokens, so you can find the models that deliver the most performance for every dollar spent across 274 scored models.
| Rank | Model | Score | Output $/1M | Value Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LFM2-8B-A1BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.020 | 2.7K |
| 2 | LFM2-2.6BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.020 | 2.7K |
| 3 | Mistral NemoMistral AI | 51 | $0.040 | 1.3K |
| 4 | Gemma 3n 4BGoogle | 46 | $0.040 | 1.2K |
| 5 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMeta | 54 | $0.049 | 1.1K |
| 6 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | 42 | $0.050 | 848.0 |
| 7 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 60 | $0.080 | 743.8 |
| 8 | Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI | 73 | $0.100 | 726.0 |
| 9 | Llama Guard 3 8BMeta | 43 | $0.060 | 715.0 |
| 10 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 56 | $0.080 | 702.5 |
| 11 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 70 | $0.100 | 700.0 |
| 12 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 69 | $0.110 | 622.7 |
| 13 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 66 | $0.110 | 601.8 |
| 14 | Trinity Miniarcee-ai | 82 | $0.150 | 549.3 |
| 15 | Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba | 79 | $0.150 | 528.7 |
| 16 | Granite 4.0 MicroIBM | 55 | $0.110 | 500.9 |
| 17 | Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.150 | 490.0 |
| 18 | Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.090 | 476.7 |
| 19 | Qwen-TurboAlibaba | 61 | $0.130 | 466.9 |
| 20 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2NVIDIA | 72 | $0.160 | 447.5 |
| 21 | LFM2-24B-A2BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.120 | 443.3 |
| 22 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 56 | $0.130 | 432.3 |
| 23 | Rnj 1 Instructessentialai | 65 | $0.150 | 432.0 |
| 24 | Qwen2.5 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.100 | 428.0 |
| 25 | Phi 4Microsoft | 60 | $0.140 | 425.7 |
| 26 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 64 | $0.160 | 397.5 |
| 27 | Pixtral 12BMistral AI | 38 | $0.100 | 383.0 |
| 28 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 74 | $0.200 | 367.5 |
| 29 | Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.200 | 367.5 |
| 30 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 51 | $0.140 | 365.7 |
| 31 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 68 | $0.190 | 356.3 |
| 32 | Spotlightarcee-ai | 62 | $0.180 | 346.1 |
| 33 | Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI | 67 | $0.200 | 336.5 |
| 34 | Llama Guard 4 12BMeta | 59 | $0.180 | 327.8 |
| 35 | UI-TARS 7B ByteDance | 63 | $0.200 | 313.5 |
| 36 | Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba | 79 | $0.260 | 305.4 |
| 37 | Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | 45 | $0.150 | 298.0 |
| 38 | Qwen3 14BAlibaba | 71 | $0.240 | 297.5 |
| 39 | Qwen3 32BAlibaba | 71 | $0.240 | 297.5 |
| 40 | MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi | 83 | $0.290 | 284.8 |
| 41 | Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance | 85 | $0.300 | 283.3 |
| 42 | gpt-oss-safeguard-20bOpenAI | 82 | $0.300 | 272.0 |
| 43 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 72 | $0.270 | 267.8 |
| 44 | Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba | 71 | $0.280 | 255.0 |
| 45 | Gemini 2.0 Flash LiteGoogle | 76 | $0.300 | 252.3 |
| 46 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 75 | $0.300 | 250.7 |
| 47 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu | 70 | $0.280 | 250.0 |
| 48 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 73 | $0.300 | 244.0 |
| 49 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 58 | $0.240 | 242.5 |
| 50 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta | 72 | $0.300 | 240.0 |
| 51 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3BBaidu | 65 | $0.280 | 232.9 |
| 52 | Olmo 2 32B InstructAllen AI | 45 | $0.200 | 222.5 |
| 53 | Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance | 85 | $0.400 | 212.5 |
| 54 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google | 84 | $0.400 | 209.3 |
| 55 | Devstral Small 1.1Mistral AI | 63 | $0.300 | 208.7 |
| 56 | R1 Distill Qwen 32BDeepSeek | 60 | $0.290 | 207.6 |
| 57 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta | 66 | $0.320 | 205.3 |
| 58 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 81 | $0.400 | 203.5 |
| 59 | Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 81 | $0.400 | 202.3 |
| 60 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 81 | $0.400 | 201.8 |
| 61 | Mistral Small CreativeMistral AI | 59 | $0.300 | 196.7 |
| 62 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 74 | $0.380 | 195.0 |
| 63 | Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.416 | 194.5 |
| 64 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 76 | $0.400 | 189.0 |
| 65 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 77 | $0.410 | 188.3 |
| 66 | Qwen2.5-VL 7B InstructAlibaba | 38 | $0.200 | 188.0 |
| 67 | Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle | 75 | $0.400 | 187.5 |
| 68 | Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3BAlibaba | 82 | $0.450 | 182.4 |
| 69 | Grok 4.1 FastxAI | 87 | $0.500 | 173.8 |
| 70 | Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5NVIDIA | 69 | $0.400 | 171.5 |
| 71 | Grok 4 FastxAI | 83 | $0.500 | 166.6 |
| 72 | Qwen3 8BAlibaba | 65 | $0.400 | 162.8 |
| 73 | Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.500 | 161.8 |
| 74 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | 32 | $0.200 | 159.5 |
| 75 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.520 | 155.6 |
| 76 | Grok 3 MinixAI | 76 | $0.500 | 152.4 |
| 77 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta | 60 | $0.400 | 149.8 |
| 78 | Qwen VL PlusAlibaba | 61 | $0.410 | 148.7 |
| 79 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 74 | $0.500 | 147.0 |
| 80 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba | 52 | $0.390 | 134.4 |
| 81 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3BBaidu | 75 | $0.560 | 133.9 |
| 82 | Olmo 3 32B ThinkAllen AI | 66 | $0.500 | 132.6 |
| 83 | Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | 79 | $0.600 | 132.3 |
| 84 | Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI | 66 | $0.500 | 132.2 |
| 85 | Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAllen AI | 65 | $0.500 | 129.6 |
| 86 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta | 77 | $0.600 | 127.8 |
| 87 | Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent | 72 | $0.570 | 126.8 |
| 88 | GPT-4o-mini Search PreviewOpenAI | 73 | $0.600 | 121.5 |
| 89 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VLNVIDIA | 73 | $0.600 | 121.0 |
| 90 | Solar Pro 3Upstage | 73 | $0.600 | 120.8 |
| 91 | Mercury 2Inception | 81 | $0.750 | 108.4 |
| 92 | Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAllen AI | 65 | $0.600 | 108.2 |
| 93 | GPT-4o-miniOpenAI | 65 | $0.600 | 107.7 |
| 94 | Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Alibaba | 83 | $0.780 | 106.2 |
| 95 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta | 36 | $0.340 | 105.6 |
| 96 | Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba | 77 | $0.750 | 102.3 |
| 97 | Qwen Plus 0728Alibaba | 77 | $0.780 | 98.7 |
| 98 | DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek | 74 | $0.750 | 98.4 |
| 99 | DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek | 73 | $0.770 | 95.1 |
| 100 | Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 57 | $0.600 | 94.5 |
| 101 | KAT-Coder-Pro V1Kuaishou | 77 | $0.828 | 93.5 |
| 102 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 74 | $0.790 | 93.3 |
| 103 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 73 | $0.780 | 93.2 |
| 104 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 60 | $0.650 | 91.8 |
| 105 | LongCat Flash ChatMeituan | 73 | $0.800 | 91.0 |
| 106 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 54 | $0.600 | 89.5 |
| 107 | Mercury CoderInception | 67 | $0.750 | 89.3 |
| 108 | SabaMistral AI | 53 | $0.600 | 88.2 |
| 109 | MercuryInception | 63 | $0.750 | 84.5 |
| 110 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba | 74 | $0.880 | 84.1 |
| 111 | Qwen-PlusAlibaba | 65 | $0.780 | 83.3 |
| 112 | QwQ 32BAlibaba | 47 | $0.580 | 81.0 |
| 113 | Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibaba | 78 | $0.975 | 80.2 |
| 114 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $0.600 | 79.7 |
| 115 | Mixtral 8x7B InstructMistral AI | 42 | $0.540 | 78.5 |
| 116 | DeepSeek V3DeepSeek | 70 | $0.890 | 78.3 |
| 117 | MiniMax M2.1MiniMax | 73 | $0.950 | 76.9 |
| 118 | R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek | 61 | $0.800 | 76.3 |
| 119 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba | 60 | $0.800 | 75.4 |
| 120 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 73 | $1.00 | 72.7 |
| 121 | Codestral 2508Mistral AI | 65 | $0.900 | 72.0 |
| 122 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 83 | $1.20 | 69.2 |
| 123 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 85 | $1.25 | 68.0 |
| 124 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 76 | $1.17 | 65.0 |
| 125 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibaba | 64 | $1.00 | 64.3 |
| 126 | DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeDeepSeek | 77 | $1.20 | 64.3 |
| 127 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructAlibaba | 70 | $1.10 | 63.7 |
| 128 | Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $1.36 | 62.3 |
| 129 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba | 78 | $1.30 | 60.2 |
| 130 | ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Baidu | 63 | $1.10 | 57.6 |
| 131 | Coder Largearcee-ai | 46 | $0.800 | 56.9 |
| 132 | Grok Code Fast 1xAI | 85 | $1.50 | 56.5 |
| 133 | MiniMax-01MiniMax | 62 | $1.10 | 56.4 |
| 134 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu | 70 | $1.25 | 55.6 |
| 135 | Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | 41 | $0.740 | 54.7 |
| 136 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 82 | $1.50 | 54.6 |
| 137 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba | 85 | $1.56 | 54.5 |
| 138 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $1.56 | 54.5 |
| 139 | SonarPerplexity | 54 | $1.00 | 53.7 |
| 140 | Cogito v2.1 671Bdeepcogito | 67 | $1.25 | 53.4 |
| 141 | WizardLM-2 8x22BMicrosoft | 32 | $0.620 | 51.9 |
| 142 | Virtuoso Largearcee-ai | 62 | $1.20 | 51.8 |
| 143 | Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba | 79 | $1.56 | 50.7 |
| 144 | MiniMax M2-herMiniMax | 59 | $1.20 | 49.5 |
| 145 | Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $1.50 | 49.0 |
| 146 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 77 | $1.60 | 48.4 |
| 147 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 69 | $1.50 | 46.4 |
| 148 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA | 53 | $1.20 | 44.3 |
| 149 | Aion-2.0aion-labs | 69 | $1.60 | 43.3 |
| 150 | MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi | 85 | $2.00 | 42.5 |
| 151 | Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance | 85 | $2.00 | 42.5 |
| 152 | Seed 1.6ByteDance | 85 | $2.00 | 42.5 |
| 153 | GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI | 85 | $2.00 | 42.5 |
| 154 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibaba | 42 | $1.00 | 42.4 |
| 155 | Aion-1.0-Miniaion-labs | 57 | $1.40 | 40.4 |
| 156 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 79 | $2.00 | 39.6 |
| 157 | Llemma 7beleutherai | 48 | $1.20 | 39.6 |
| 158 | Qwen3 235B A22BAlibaba | 71 | $1.82 | 39.2 |
| 159 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 85 | $2.20 | 38.6 |
| 160 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba | 80 | $2.08 | 38.3 |
| 161 | Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | 73 | $2.00 | 36.3 |
| 162 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 78 | $2.15 | 36.1 |
| 163 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 70 | $2.00 | 35.1 |
| 164 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba | 82 | $2.34 | 35.0 |
| 165 | Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic | 43 | $1.25 | 34.4 |
| 166 | Devstral 2 2512Mistral AI | 68 | $2.00 | 33.9 |
| 167 | Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AI | 66 | $2.00 | 32.9 |
| 168 | Qwen VL MaxAlibaba | 68 | $2.08 | 32.7 |
| 169 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 65 | $2.00 | 32.5 |
| 170 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 80 | $2.50 | 32.0 |
| 171 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA | 58 | $1.80 | 32.0 |
| 172 | Devstral MediumMistral AI | 63 | $2.00 | 31.3 |
| 173 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 68 | $2.20 | 31.1 |
| 174 | Composer 2Cursor | 76 | $2.50 | 30.6 |
| 175 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | 89 | $3.00 | 29.8 |
| 176 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba | 77 | $2.60 | 29.8 |
| 177 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 73 | $2.50 | 29.1 |
| 178 | GPT Audio MiniOpenAI | 68 | $2.40 | 28.5 |
| 179 | Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | 63 | $2.20 | 28.5 |
| 180 | MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi | 85 | $3.00 | 28.3 |
| 181 | R1DeepSeek | 68 | $2.50 | 27.3 |
| 182 | GPT-3.5 TurboOpenAI | 40 | $1.50 | 26.6 |
| 183 | Qwen3 Coder PlusAlibaba | 79 | $3.25 | 24.2 |
| 184 | Qwen3 Max ThinkingAlibaba | 82 | $3.90 | 21.0 |
| 185 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 93 | $4.50 | 20.7 |
| 186 | Qwen3 MaxAlibaba | 76 | $3.90 | 19.5 |
| 187 | o4 Mini HighOpenAI | 85 | $4.40 | 19.3 |
| 188 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 84 | $4.40 | 19.0 |
| 189 | GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)OpenAI | 38 | $2.00 | 19.0 |
| 190 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 58 | $3.20 | 18.2 |
| 191 | Maestro Reasoningarcee-ai | 56 | $3.30 | 16.8 |
| 192 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 73 | $4.40 | 16.7 |
| 193 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 83 | $5.00 | 16.6 |
| 194 | GPT-3.5 Turbo InstructOpenAI | 32 | $2.00 | 16.1 |
| 195 | Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic | 63 | $4.00 | 15.6 |
| 196 | o3 Mini HighOpenAI | 65 | $4.40 | 14.9 |
| 197 | Grok 4.20 BetaxAI | 86 | $6.00 | 14.3 |
| 198 | Qwen-Max Alibaba | 59 | $4.16 | 14.1 |
| 199 | Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaxAI | 82 | $6.00 | 13.7 |
| 200 | Palmyra X5Writer | 65 | $6.00 | 10.8 |
| 201 | o3OpenAI | 86 | $8.00 | 10.7 |
| 202 | o4 Mini Deep ResearchOpenAI | 85 | $8.00 | 10.6 |
| 203 | Composer 2 FastCursor | 76 | $7.50 | 10.2 |
| 204 | GPT-3.5 Turbo 16kOpenAI | 40 | $4.00 | 10.0 |
| 205 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 77 | $8.00 | 9.7 |
| 206 | Llama 3.1 405B (base)Meta | 39 | $4.00 | 9.7 |
| 207 | Pixtral Large 2411Mistral AI | 56 | $6.00 | 9.3 |
| 208 | GPT-5OpenAI | 90 | $10.00 | 9.0 |
| 209 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 54 | $6.00 | 9.0 |
| 210 | Jamba Large 1.7AI21 Labs | 71 | $8.00 | 8.9 |
| 211 | Mistral Large 2407Mistral AI | 53 | $6.00 | 8.8 |
| 212 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 213 | GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 214 | GPT-5.1 ChatOpenAI | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 215 | GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 216 | GPT-5 CodexOpenAI | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 217 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 85 | $10.00 | 8.5 |
| 218 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google | 84 | $10.00 | 8.4 |
| 219 | Mistral Large 2411Mistral AI | 50 | $6.00 | 8.3 |
| 220 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google | 83 | $10.00 | 8.3 |
| 221 | Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | 62 | $8.00 | 7.7 |
| 222 | Gemini 3 Pro PreviewGoogle | 90 | $12.00 | 7.5 |
| 223 | GPT-5 ChatOpenAI | 75 | $10.00 | 7.5 |
| 224 | GPT-4o AudioOpenAI | 72 | $10.00 | 7.2 |
| 225 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 86 | $12.00 | 7.1 |
| 226 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle | 85 | $12.00 | 7.1 |
| 227 | Aion-1.0aion-labs | 57 | $8.00 | 7.1 |
| 228 | Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | 56 | $8.00 | 7.0 |
| 229 | GPT AudioOpenAI | 68 | $10.00 | 6.8 |
| 230 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 93 | $14.00 | 6.6 |
| 231 | GPT-4oOpenAI | 64 | $10.00 | 6.4 |
| 232 | GPT-4o Search PreviewOpenAI | 64 | $10.00 | 6.4 |
| 233 | GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI | 63 | $10.00 | 6.3 |
| 234 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 94 | $15.00 | 6.3 |
| 235 | Nova Premier 1.0Amazon | 78 | $12.50 | 6.2 |
| 236 | Mixtral 8x22B InstructMistral AI | 37 | $6.00 | 6.2 |
| 237 | GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI | 85 | $14.00 | 6.1 |
| 238 | GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $14.00 | 6.1 |
| 239 | GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $14.00 | 6.1 |
| 240 | Command ACohere | 60 | $10.00 | 6.0 |
| 241 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 89 | $15.00 | 5.9 |
| 242 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 89 | $15.00 | 5.9 |
| 243 | GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI | 83 | $14.00 | 5.9 |
| 244 | Grok 4xAI | 86 | $15.00 | 5.7 |
| 245 | Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | 85 | $15.00 | 5.7 |
| 246 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 56 | $10.00 | 5.6 |
| 247 | Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic | 80 | $15.00 | 5.3 |
| 248 | Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic | 77 | $15.00 | 5.1 |
| 249 | Grok 3xAI | 74 | $15.00 | 4.9 |
| 250 | Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $10.00 | 4.8 |
| 251 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)Anthropic | 70 | $15.00 | 4.7 |
| 252 | Grok 3 BetaxAI | 64 | $15.00 | 4.2 |
| 253 | Sonar ProPerplexity | 63 | $15.00 | 4.2 |
| 254 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 92 | $25.00 | 3.7 |
| 255 | Inflection 3 PiInflection | 37 | $10.00 | 3.7 |
| 256 | Inflection 3 ProductivityInflection | 37 | $10.00 | 3.7 |
| 257 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 90 | $25.00 | 3.6 |
| 258 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 53 | $15.00 | 3.5 |
| 259 | GPT-4o (extended)OpenAI | 54 | $18.00 | 3.0 |
| 260 | o3 Deep ResearchOpenAI | 92 | $40.00 | 2.3 |
| 261 | Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic | 66 | $30.00 | 2.2 |
| 262 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 61 | $30.00 | 2.0 |
| 263 | GPT-4 Turbo PreviewOpenAI | 43 | $30.00 | 1.4 |
| 264 | GPT-4 Turbo (older v1106)OpenAI | 43 | $30.00 | 1.4 |
| 265 | o1OpenAI | 76 | $60.00 | 1.3 |
| 266 | o3 ProOpenAI | 88 | $80.00 | 1.1 |
| 267 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 82 | $75.00 | 1.1 |
| 268 | Claude Opus 4Anthropic | 82 | $75.00 | 1.1 |
| 269 | GPT-5 ProOpenAI | 92 | $120.00 | 0.8 |
| 270 | GPT-4 (older v0314)OpenAI | 39 | $60.00 | 0.7 |
| 271 | GPT-4OpenAI | 39 | $60.00 | 0.7 |
| 272 | GPT-5.2 ProOpenAI | 93 | $168.00 | 0.6 |
| 273 | GPT-5.4 ProOpenAI | 94 | $180.00 | 0.5 |
| 274 | o1-proOpenAI | 77 | $600.00 | 0.1 |
The Value Index is calculated as composite_score / output_price_per_1M_tokens. A higher Value Index means you get more quality per dollar. The composite score (0--100) factors in capabilities, pricing tier, context window, recency, output capacity, and versatility.
Optimize for value when running high-volume workloads like classification, summarization, or data extraction where marginal quality differences are negligible.
Optimize for quality when accuracy is critical: complex reasoning, code generation for production, or agentic workflows where errors compound. A premium model that costs 10x more may save you 100x in debugging time.
Value is measured as the ratio of composite score to cost per million tokens. Models that achieve high benchmark scores while maintaining low API costs rank highest. Free models with strong performance automatically top the value rankings.
Not necessarily. Many open-source models offer performance comparable to premium options at a fraction of the cost. Budget-tier models under $1 per million tokens can handle most common use cases effectively. Premium pricing often reflects additional capabilities like vision or reasoning.
Free models with the highest composite scores offer the best value. Among paid models, the best value depends on your volume and use case. Our value rankings factor in both input and output token costs against model quality.