Looking for an alternative to GPT-4 or ChatGPT? The AI landscape has evolved far beyond OpenAI. Models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral now rival or exceed GPT-4o across coding, reasoning, and creative tasks. Below you'll find 264 non-OpenAI models from 50 providers, ranked by our composite performance score, including free, open-source, and budget-friendly options.
Alternatives
264
non-OpenAI models
Providers
50
competing with OpenAI
Free Options
10
zero-cost models
Open Source
10
self-hostable models
These models cost nothing to use via API. No subscription, no per-token fees, no credit card required.
| Rank | Model | Provider | Score | Context | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | 84 | 262K | Free OSS |
| 2 | MiniMax M2.5 (free) | MiniMax | 83 | 197K | Free OSS |
| 3 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | NVIDIA | 82 | 128K | Free OSS |
| 4 | Step 3.5 Flash (free) | StepFun | 78 | 256K | Free OSS |
| 5 | Trinity Large Preview (free) | arcee-ai | 73 | 131K | Free OSS |
| 6 | Trinity Mini (free) | arcee-ai | 73 | 131K | Free OSS |
| 7 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free) | NVIDIA | 72 | 128K | Free OSS |
| 8 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) | Alibaba | 69 | 262K | Free OSS |
| 9 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) | NVIDIA | 68 | 256K | Free OSS |
| 10 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) | Alibaba | 67 | 262K | Free OSS |
Self-hostable models with open weights. Run them locally with Ollama, vLLM, or llama.cpp for full data privacy and no vendor lock-in.
| Rank | Model | Provider | Score | Output $/1M | Context | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | 85 | $2.20 | 262K | Reasoning Vision Tools |
| 2 | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Alibaba | 85 | $1.36 | 131K | Reasoning Vision Tools |
| 3 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | Alibaba | 85 | $1.56 | 131K | Reasoning Vision Tools |
| 4 | Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | 84 | Free | 262K | Reasoning Tools |
| 5 | MiniMax M2.5 (free) | MiniMax | 83 | Free | 197K | Reasoning Tools |
| 6 | MiniMax M2.7 | MiniMax | 83 | $1.20 | 205K | Reasoning Tools |
| 7 | MiMo-V2-Flash | Xiaomi | 83 | $0.290 | 262K | Reasoning Tools |
| 8 | Trinity Mini | arcee-ai | 82 | $0.150 | 131K | Reasoning Tools |
| 9 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | NVIDIA | 82 | Free | 128K | Reasoning Vision Tools |
| 10 | Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B | Alibaba | 82 | $0.450 | 131K | Reasoning Tools |
High-quality models at a fraction of GPT-4o's price. Output pricing under $3/1M tokens, sorted by value ratio (score per dollar).
| Rank | Model | Provider | Score | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LFM2-8B-A1B | Liquid AI | 53 | $0.010 | $0.020 | 33K |
| 2 | LFM2-2.6B | Liquid AI | 53 | $0.010 | $0.020 | 33K |
| 3 | Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | 51 | $0.020 | $0.040 | 131K |
| 4 | Gemma 3n 4B | 46 | $0.020 | $0.040 | 33K | |
| 5 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct | Meta | 54 | $0.049 | $0.049 | 131K |
| 6 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Meta | 42 | $0.020 | $0.050 | 16K |
| 7 | Mistral Small 3 | Mistral AI | 60 | $0.050 | $0.080 | 33K |
| 8 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | Mistral AI | 73 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 9 | Llama Guard 3 8B | Meta | 43 | $0.020 | $0.060 | 131K |
| 10 | Gemma 3 4B | 56 | $0.040 | $0.080 | 131K |
| Rank | Model | Score | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 92 | $25.00 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 90 | $25.00 |
| 3 | Gemini 3 Pro PreviewGoogle | 90 | $12.00 |
| 4 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | 89 | $3.00 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 89 | $15.00 |
| 6 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 89 | $15.00 |
| 7 | Grok 4.1 FastxAI | 87 | $0.500 |
| 8 | Grok 4xAI | 86 | $15.00 |
| 9 | Grok 4.20 BetaxAI | 86 | $6.00 |
| 10 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 86 | $12.00 |
| 11 | MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi | 85 | $2.00 |
| 12 | MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi | 85 | $3.00 |
| 13 | Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance | 85 | $2.00 |
| 14 | Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance | 85 | $0.400 |
| 15 | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google | 85 | $3.00 |
| 16 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle | 85 | $12.00 |
| 17 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba | 85 | $1.56 |
| 18 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 85 | $2.20 |
| 19 | Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance | 85 | $0.300 |
| 20 | Seed 1.6ByteDance | 85 | $2.00 |
| 21 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google | 85 | $12.00 |
| 22 | Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | 85 | $15.00 |
| 23 | Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $1.36 |
| 24 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $1.56 |
| 25 | Grok Code Fast 1xAI | 85 | $1.50 |
| 26 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 85 | $10.00 |
| 27 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google | 84 | $10.00 |
| 28 | Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA | 84 | Free |
| 29 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google | 84 | $0.400 |
| 30 | MiniMax M2.5 (free)MiniMax | 83 | Free |
| 31 | Grok 4 FastxAI | 83 | $0.500 |
| 32 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 83 | $1.20 |
| 33 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 83 | $5.00 |
| 34 | Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Alibaba | 83 | $0.780 |
| 35 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google | 83 | $10.00 |
| 36 | MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi | 83 | $0.290 |
| 37 | Trinity Miniarcee-ai | 82 | $0.150 |
| 38 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)NVIDIA | 82 | Free |
| 39 | Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaxAI | 82 | $6.00 |
| 40 | Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3BAlibaba | 82 | $0.450 |
| 41 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 82 | $75.00 |
| 42 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 82 | $1.50 |
| 43 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba | 82 | $2.34 |
| 44 | Qwen3 Max ThinkingAlibaba | 82 | $3.90 |
| 45 | Claude Opus 4Anthropic | 82 | $75.00 |
| 46 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 81 | $0.400 |
| 47 | Mercury 2Inception | 81 | $0.750 |
| 48 | Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.416 |
| 49 | Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.500 |
| 50 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.520 |
| 51 | Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 81 | $0.400 |
| 52 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 80 | $2.50 |
| 53 | Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic | 80 | $15.00 |
| 54 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba | 80 | $2.08 |
| 55 | Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | 79 | $0.600 |
| 56 | Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba | 79 | $0.260 |
| 57 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google | 79 | $2.50 |
| 58 | Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba | 79 | $0.150 |
| 59 | Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba | 79 | $1.56 |
| 60 | Qwen3 Coder PlusAlibaba | 79 | $3.25 |
| 61 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba | 78 | $1.30 |
| 62 | Step 3.5 Flash (free)StepFun | 78 | Free |
| 63 | Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibaba | 78 | $0.975 |
| 64 | Nova Premier 1.0Amazon | 78 | $12.50 |
| 65 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 78 | $2.15 |
| 66 | KAT-Coder-Pro V1Kuaishou | 77 | $0.828 |
| 67 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba | 77 | $2.60 |
| 68 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 77 | $0.410 |
| 69 | DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeDeepSeek | 77 | $1.20 |
| 70 | Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic | 77 | $15.00 |
| 71 | Qwen Plus 0728Alibaba | 77 | $0.780 |
| 72 | Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba | 77 | $0.750 |
| 73 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta | 77 | $0.600 |
| 74 | Composer 2Cursor | 76 | $2.50 |
| 75 | Composer 2 FastCursor | 76 | $7.50 |
| 76 | Grok 3 MinixAI | 76 | $0.500 |
| 77 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 76 | $1.17 |
| 78 | Qwen3 MaxAlibaba | 76 | $3.90 |
| 79 | Gemini 2.0 Flash LiteGoogle | 76 | $0.300 |
| 80 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 75 | $0.300 |
| 81 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3BBaidu | 75 | $0.560 |
| 82 | Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle | 75 | $0.400 |
| 83 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 74 | $0.380 |
| 84 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba | 74 | $0.880 |
| 85 | DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek | 74 | $0.750 |
| 86 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 74 | $0.790 |
| 87 | Grok 3xAI | 74 | $15.00 |
| 88 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 74 | $0.500 |
| 89 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 74 | $0.200 |
| 90 | Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.200 |
| 91 | Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.150 |
| 92 | Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $1.50 |
| 93 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 73 | $0.300 |
| 94 | DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek | 73 | $0.770 |
| 95 | MiniMax M2.1MiniMax | 73 | $0.950 |
| 96 | LongCat Flash ChatMeituan | 73 | $0.800 |
| 97 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 73 | $2.50 |
| 98 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 73 | $1.00 |
| 99 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 73 | $0.780 |
| 100 | Trinity Large Preview (free)arcee-ai | 73 | Free |
| 101 | Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI | 73 | $0.100 |
| 102 | Trinity Mini (free)arcee-ai | 73 | Free |
| 103 | Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | 73 | $2.00 |
| 104 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VLNVIDIA | 73 | $0.600 |
| 105 | Solar Pro 3Upstage | 73 | $0.600 |
| 106 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 72 | $0.270 |
| 107 | Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent | 72 | $0.570 |
| 108 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta | 72 | $0.300 |
| 109 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)NVIDIA | 72 | Free |
| 110 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2NVIDIA | 72 | $0.160 |
| 111 | Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba | 71 | $0.280 |
| 112 | Qwen3 14BAlibaba | 71 | $0.240 |
| 113 | Qwen3 32BAlibaba | 71 | $0.240 |
| 114 | Qwen3 235B A22BAlibaba | 71 | $1.82 |
| 115 | Jamba Large 1.7AI21 Labs | 71 | $8.00 |
| 116 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 70 | $2.00 |
| 117 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructAlibaba | 70 | $1.10 |
| 118 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu | 70 | $0.280 |
| 119 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 70 | $0.100 |
| 120 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)Anthropic | 70 | $15.00 |
| 121 | DeepSeek V3DeepSeek | 70 | $0.890 |
| 122 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu | 70 | $1.25 |
| 123 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 69 | $1.50 |
| 124 | Aion-2.0aion-labs | 69 | $1.60 |
| 125 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)Alibaba | 69 | Free |
| 126 | Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5NVIDIA | 69 | $0.400 |
| 127 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 68 | $2.20 |
| 128 | R1DeepSeek | 68 | $2.50 |
| 129 | Qwen VL MaxAlibaba | 68 | $2.08 |
| 130 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)NVIDIA | 68 | Free |
| 131 | Devstral 2 2512Mistral AI | 68 | $2.00 |
| 132 | Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI | 67 | $0.200 |
| 133 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)Alibaba | 67 | Free |
| 134 | Mercury CoderInception | 67 | $0.750 |
| 135 | Cogito v2.1 671Bdeepcogito | 67 | $1.25 |
| 136 | Olmo 3 32B ThinkAllen AI | 66 | $0.500 |
| 137 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 66 | $0.110 |
| 138 | Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI | 66 | $0.500 |
| 139 | Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic | 66 | $30.00 |
| 140 | Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AI | 66 | $2.00 |
| 141 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta | 66 | $0.320 |
| 142 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3BBaidu | 65 | $0.280 |
| 143 | Qwen3 8BAlibaba | 65 | $0.400 |
| 144 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 65 | $2.00 |
| 145 | Qwen-PlusAlibaba | 65 | $0.780 |
| 146 | Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAllen AI | 65 | $0.600 |
| 147 | Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAllen AI | 65 | $0.500 |
| 148 | Rnj 1 Instructessentialai | 65 | $0.150 |
| 149 | Codestral 2508Mistral AI | 65 | $0.900 |
| 150 | Palmyra X5Writer | 65 | $6.00 |
| 151 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibaba | 64 | $1.00 |
| 152 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 64 | $0.160 |
| 153 | Grok 3 BetaxAI | 64 | $15.00 |
| 154 | ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Baidu | 63 | $1.10 |
| 155 | MercuryInception | 63 | $0.750 |
| 156 | Sonar ProPerplexity | 63 | $15.00 |
| 157 | Qwen3 4B (free)Alibaba | 63 | Free |
| 158 | Gemma 3 27B (free)Google | 63 | Free |
| 159 | UI-TARS 7B ByteDance | 63 | $0.200 |
| 160 | Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | 63 | $2.20 |
| 161 | Devstral MediumMistral AI | 63 | $2.00 |
| 162 | Devstral Small 1.1Mistral AI | 63 | $0.300 |
| 163 | Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic | 63 | $4.00 |
| 164 | Spotlightarcee-ai | 62 | $0.180 |
| 165 | Virtuoso Largearcee-ai | 62 | $1.20 |
| 166 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)Mistral AI | 62 | Free |
| 167 | MiniMax-01MiniMax | 62 | $1.10 |
| 168 | Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | 62 | $8.00 |
| 169 | Gemma 3 4B (free)Google | 61 | Free |
| 170 | R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek | 61 | $0.800 |
| 171 | Qwen VL PlusAlibaba | 61 | $0.410 |
| 172 | Qwen-TurboAlibaba | 61 | $0.130 |
| 173 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba | 60 | $0.800 |
| 174 | R1 Distill Qwen 32BDeepSeek | 60 | $0.290 |
| 175 | Command ACohere | 60 | $10.00 |
| 176 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta | 60 | $0.400 |
| 177 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 60 | $0.650 |
| 178 | Phi 4Microsoft | 60 | $0.140 |
| 179 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 60 | $0.080 |
| 180 | MiniMax M2-herMiniMax | 59 | $1.20 |
| 181 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)Liquid AI | 59 | Free |
| 182 | Mistral Small CreativeMistral AI | 59 | $0.300 |
| 183 | Llama Guard 4 12BMeta | 59 | $0.180 |
| 184 | Qwen-Max Alibaba | 59 | $4.16 |
| 185 | Gemma 3n 2B (free)Google | 58 | Free |
| 186 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 58 | $0.240 |
| 187 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 58 | $3.20 |
| 188 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA | 58 | $1.80 |
| 189 | Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 57 | $0.600 |
| 190 | Aion-1.0aion-labs | 57 | $8.00 |
| 191 | Aion-1.0-Miniaion-labs | 57 | $1.40 |
| 192 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 56 | $0.080 |
| 193 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 56 | $0.130 |
| 194 | Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | 56 | $8.00 |
| 195 | Pixtral Large 2411Mistral AI | 56 | $6.00 |
| 196 | Maestro Reasoningarcee-ai | 56 | $3.30 |
| 197 | Gemma 3n 4B (free)Google | 56 | Free |
| 198 | Gemma 3 12B (free)Google | 55 | Free |
| 199 | Granite 4.0 MicroIBM | 55 | $0.110 |
| 200 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMeta | 54 | $0.049 |
| 201 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 54 | $6.00 |
| 202 | SonarPerplexity | 54 | $1.00 |
| 203 | LFM2-24B-A2BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.120 |
| 204 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)Liquid AI | 53 | Free |
| 205 | LFM2-8B-A1BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.020 |
| 206 | LFM2-2.6BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.020 |
| 207 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA | 53 | $1.20 |
| 208 | Mistral Large 2407Mistral AI | 53 | $6.00 |
| 209 | SabaMistral AI | 53 | $0.600 |
| 210 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba | 52 | $0.390 |
| 211 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 51 | $0.140 |
| 212 | Mistral NemoMistral AI | 51 | $0.040 |
| 213 | Mistral Large 2411Mistral AI | 50 | $6.00 |
| 214 | SWE-1.5Windsurf | 49 | Free |
| 215 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $0.600 |
| 216 | Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $10.00 |
| 217 | Llemma 7beleutherai | 48 | $1.20 |
| 218 | QwQ 32BAlibaba | 47 | $0.580 |
| 219 | Gemma 3n 4BGoogle | 46 | $0.040 |
| 220 | Coder Largearcee-ai | 46 | $0.800 |
| 221 | Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | 45 | $0.150 |
| 222 | Olmo 2 32B InstructAllen AI | 45 | $0.200 |
| 223 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta | 44 | Free |
| 224 | Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic | 43 | $1.25 |
| 225 | Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.090 |
| 226 | Llama Guard 3 8BMeta | 43 | $0.060 |
| 227 | Qwen2.5 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.100 |
| 228 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibaba | 42 | $1.00 |
| 229 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | 42 | $0.050 |
| 230 | Mixtral 8x7B InstructMistral AI | 42 | $0.540 |
| 231 | Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | 41 | $0.740 |
| 232 | autofixer-01Vercel | 39 | Free |
| 233 | Llama 3.1 405B (base)Meta | 39 | $4.00 |
| 234 | Pixtral 12BMistral AI | 38 | $0.100 |
| 235 | Qwen2.5-VL 7B InstructAlibaba | 38 | $0.200 |
| 236 | Mixtral 8x22B InstructMistral AI | 37 | $6.00 |
| 237 | Inflection 3 PiInflection | 37 | $10.00 |
| 238 | Inflection 3 ProductivityInflection | 37 | $10.00 |
| 239 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta | 36 | $0.340 |
| 240 | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)Meta | 35 | Free |
| 241 | MellumJetBrains | 33 | Free |
| 242 | WizardLM-2 8x22BMicrosoft | 32 | $0.620 |
| 243 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | 32 | $0.200 |
| 244 | Wan 2.1 T2VWan AI | 20 | Free |
| 245 | Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AI | 20 | $35000.00 |
| 246 | LTX-Video 2Lightricks | 19 | Free |
| 247 | Recraft V3Recraft | 19 | $40000.00 |
| 248 | Veo 2Google | 18 | $350000.00 |
| 249 | Pika 2.0Pika | 17 | Free |
| 250 | Midjourney v6.1Midjourney | 15 | Free |
| 251 | FLUX.1 ProBlack Forest Labs | 15 | $50000.00 |
| 252 | Ideogram 2.0Ideogram | 15 | $80000.00 |
| 253 | Leonardo PhoenixLeonardo AI | 15 | Free |
| 254 | Kling 1.6Kuaishou | 14 | $70000.00 |
| 255 | Runway Gen-3 AlphaRunway | 13 | Free |
| 256 | Imagen 3Google | 12 | $40000.00 |
| 257 | MiniMax Video-01MiniMax | 12 | Free |
| 258 | Adobe Firefly 3Adobe | 9 | Free |
| 259 | Luma Dream MachineLuma AI | 7 | Free |
| 260 | Stable Video DiffusionStability AI | 3 | Free |
| 261 | Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI | -- | $0.300 |
| 262 | Gemma 2 9BGoogle | -- | $0.090 |
| 263 | Llama 3 8B InstructMeta | -- | $0.040 |
| 264 | Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI | -- | $0.190 |
Many GPT-4 alternatives offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price. Models like DeepSeek and Mistral deliver strong results for under $1/1M output tokens, compared to GPT-4o's premium pricing. For high-volume workloads, the savings are substantial.
Unlike GPT-4, open-source alternatives like Meta's Llama and Mistral models can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. This means full data privacy, no API rate limits, and zero ongoing costs beyond compute.
Different models excel at different tasks. Claude excels at nuanced writing and long-context analysis, Gemini leads in multimodal understanding, and DeepSeek offers state-of-the-art reasoning. Choosing the right alternative can outperform GPT-4 on your specific use case.
Relying solely on OpenAI creates a single point of failure. Diversifying across providers protects against outages, policy changes, and price increases. Many alternatives are available via a single API key through multi-model providers.
Use our comparison tool to see side-by-side breakdowns of scores, pricing, capabilities, and context windows between any two models.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Pro, DeepSeek V3, and Llama 3.1 405B are the strongest GPT-4 alternatives. Each matches or exceeds GPT-4 on specific benchmarks while offering different pricing and deployment options.
Yes -- DeepSeek V3 offers GPT-4-level performance at 10x lower cost. Gemini 2.0 Flash provides strong performance with a generous free tier. Open-source models like Llama 3.1 can be self-hosted for zero API costs.
For many use cases, yes. Llama 3.1 405B and DeepSeek V3 match GPT-4 on standard benchmarks. The gap narrows with fine-tuning. However, GPT-4 still leads on some complex reasoning tasks and has the most mature API ecosystem.