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Cheapest LLM for…

No vibes, no vendor spin. Each guide picks a representative monthly workload, applies the filters that matter for that job (context window, image input), then ranks every generally-available model by the actual bill — using live prices from official docs.

For chatbots

Cheapest LLM for a chatbot

Cheapest pickLlama 3.1 8B Instruct$0.29/mo · $0.02/$0.03 per 1M
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For RAG

Cheapest LLM for RAG

Cheapest pickLlama 3.1 8B Instruct$1.15/mo · $0.02/$0.03 per 1M
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For coding

Cheapest LLM for coding

Cheapest pickAmazon Nova Lite$11.40/mo · $0.06/$0.24 per 1M
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For summarization

Cheapest LLM for summarization

Cheapest pickQwen-Flash$5.60/mo · $0.05/$0.4 per 1M
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For vision

Cheapest LLM for vision

Cheapest pickMinistral 3 3B$2.50/mo · $0.1/$0.1 per 1M
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