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Low-cost LLM APIsEdition of 12 Nov 2026
Cheapest LLM APIRuncrate Reference
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Sources

Answer in brief

Every figure on Cheapest LLM API comes from a source named on this page, with the date it was read.

Runcrate’s figures come from Runcrate’s own site and live feed. Every other host’s price comes from the model data named below.

What was read

Runcrate
Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the models and GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Runcrate inference
Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Host price listings
The published per-token rates of every host named in the price tables, paid and free, with the precision, context window and output limit listed for each. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Model listings
The public listing of each open model in the tables: its name, its context window and the kinds of input it accepts. Read 12 Nov 2026.

How a published price becomes a row

A price is taken per 1M tokens as the host lists it, with input and output apart. When a host lists a model more than once, its lowest paid listing is the row.

Free listings are shown as free. They are never called the lowest price and are left out of the lowest, median and highest figures.

What a source does not show

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

A listed price says what a host charges per token. It does not say how fast the host answers or how often it is up.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for the cheapest LLM API: 124 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, one prepaid balance, and the best developer platform we know. Runcrate publishes this site.

It depends on the model and on your mix. For one model, the price table shows the lowest listed input and output prices on the date they were read, with Runcrate first.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the models and GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate inference: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Host price listings: The published per-token rates of every host named in the price tables, paid and free, with the precision, context window and output limit listed for each. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Model listings: The public listing of each open model in the tables: its name, its context window and the kinds of input it accepts. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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Cite this entry

Cheapest LLM API. “Sources.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://cheapestllmapi.dev/sources