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Best Large language models (2026): prices compared

A product must provide access to a large language model (hosted API or enterprise chat/workspace) for generating and understanding text, with business controls such as API access, admin or security features.

25 tools read12 with a free plan$5.99 to $2,000/moChecked Oct 29, 2026

The short answer

Tools compared25
Lowest starting price
$5.99 · Mistral AI
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Large language models at a glance

Median starting price$22.50/moHalf start between $8 and $575
Free plan48%16% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online96%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only0%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
Per seat16%4 tools
Flat tiers16%4 tools
Pay per use32%8 tools
Credits8%2 tools
Quote only28%7 tools

Every Large language model, side by side

ToolStarts atUsage priceFree planHow you buyChecksChecked
Mistral AI $5.99/mo – Yes Both 4/8 Oct 29, 2026
Hugging Face $9/mo $0.03/minute Yes Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
Anthropic Claude $17/mo yearly $10/minute Yes Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
OpenAI $20/mo yearly – Yes Both 4/8 Oct 29, 2026
Upstage $100/mo yearly $0.15/minute Yes Both 3/8 Oct 29, 2026
Cohere $2,000/mo $3/minute Yes Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
AI21 Labs – $0.20/minute – Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
Alibaba Qwen – – Yes Self-serve 3/8 Oct 29, 2026
Amazon Bedrock – $2/minute – Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
Anyscale – $0.01/minute – Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
Databricks Mosaic AI – – Yes Both 0/8 Oct 29, 2026
DeepSeek – – – – 1/8 Oct 29, 2026
Fireworks AI – $0.01/minute – Both 7/8 Oct 29, 2026
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform – $0.09/vcpu-hour Yes Both 3/8 Oct 29, 2026
Google Gemini – $2/minute Yes Both 4/8 Oct 29, 2026
Meta Llama – – – Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service – – – Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
Nebius – $9.50/minute – Both 1/8 Oct 29, 2026
OpenRouter – $5.50/minute Yes Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
Perplexity API – $0/minute – Both 3/8 Oct 29, 2026
Replicate – $0/minute – Both 2/8 Oct 29, 2026
SiliconFlow – – – Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI – – – Both 1/8 Oct 29, 2026
Together AI – $3/minute – Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026
xAI Grok – $2/minute Yes Both 5/8 Oct 29, 2026

The tools

Mistral AIMistral AI builds open-weight and proprietary language models and sells them through an API platform (Studio), an assistant and coding agent (Vibe), custom model training (Forge), and hosted or self-hosted deployment.$5.99 /moHugging FaceHugging Face is a platform for hosting and sharing machine learning models, datasets and apps, with paid compute and team plans.$9 /moAnthropic ClaudeAnthropic makes the Claude family of large language models, sold through chat apps, Claude Code and a pay-per-token API.$17 /moOPOpenAIOpenAI sells ChatGPT workspace plans and API access to its GPT models for individuals, teams and enterprises.$20 /moUpstageUpstage sells Solar large language models and document processing APIs, plus a no-code agent builder, for enterprise document workflows.$100 /moCohereCohere sells enterprise AI: the North agent platform, Compass search, and Command, Embed, Rerank and Parse models, deployable privately or via Model Vault.$2,000 /moAI21 LabsAI21 trains specialized, customer-owned language models on a customer's data, and also sells Jamba models through a usage-priced API.$0.20 /minuteAlibaba QwenQwen is a family of AI models offered through a free assistant app and an OpenAI-compatible API platform.QuoteAmazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock is an AWS service for building generative AI apps and agents on foundation models from many providers.$2 /minuteAnyscaleManaged platform that runs Ray workloads (training, batch inference, data processing, serving) on hosted or customer-owned GPUs.$0.01 /minuteDatabricks Mosaic AIDatabricks is a unified data and AI platform for data engineering, warehousing, analytics, AI agents and apps.QuoteDeepSeekDeepSeek offers large language models through a chat site, apps and an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API.QuoteFireworks AIFireworks AI runs an inference platform for open models, with fine-tuning and dedicated GPU deployments.$0.01 /minuteGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGoogle Cloud platform for building, deploying and governing AI agents and apps with Gemini, third-party and open models.$0.09 /vcpu-hourGoogle GeminiGoogle's Gemini Developer API gives developers pay-per-token access to Gemini models for text, image, audio and video input, with a free tier and a paid tier.$2 /minuteMEMeta LlamaMeta's developer platform for its Muse family of AI models, offering an API, a terminal coding tool and open-weight models.QuoteMicrosoft Azure OpenAI ServiceAzure OpenAI in Foundry Models gives access to OpenAI foundational, reasoning and multimodal models on Azure, with agent integration and fine-tuning.QuoteNebiusNebius is an AI cloud that rents NVIDIA GPU instances, storage and managed services, with a separate Token Factory for managed model inference.$9.50 /minuteOpenRouterOpenRouter is an API gateway that gives access to 500+ AI models from 80+ providers through one OpenAI-compatible interface with pay-as-you-go credits.$5.50 /minutePerplexity APIPerplexity's developer platform sells usage-priced APIs for model access (Agent and Orchestrator), web search, embeddings and structured yes/no decisions.$0 /minuteReplicateReplicate is a hosted platform for running, fine-tuning and deploying machine learning models through an API.$0 /minuteSiliconFlowSiliconFlow is an AI inference cloud with one OpenAI-compatible API for open and commercial LLMs plus image, video and audio models.QuoteSnowflake Cortex AISnowflake is a consumption-priced cloud data platform that also offers AI features for building LLM and ML models on customer data.QuoteTogether AITogether AI runs open-source AI models through APIs and offers GPU clusters, fine-tuning and dedicated hosting.$3 /minutexAI GrokSpaceXSI sells the Grok family of AI models through a usage-priced API covering text, code, images, video and voice, plus consumer and business Grok apps.$2 /minute

How this list is made

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