The budget tier, where blended prices sit under a dollar per million tokens. Capability stays visible beside every price so cheap never hides weak.Last reviewed 2026-07-17.
MiniMax's multimodal foundation model for long-horizon agentic work.
Efficiency-optimized DeepSeek V4 at 284B total / 13B active for fast, high-throughput inference.
Google's high-efficiency model for high-volume use cases at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash has the lowest blended list price. Per 1M tokens: MiniMax M3 at $0.30 in / $1.20 out; DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.09 in / $0.19 out; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at $0.25 in / $1.50 out.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads with 1M tokens. The other two: MiniMax M3 at 524K, DeepSeek V4 Flash at 1M.
MiniMax M3 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accept images; the third do not.
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