🔄 OpenAI Alternatives — 87 AI Providers Compared

Looking for alternatives to OpenAI? Compare 87 AI providers with 4,587 models. Real pricing, real capabilities, first-party data.

87Providers

4,587Models

81Free Models

2,350Tool Calling

527Open Weights

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💡 Why consider alternatives? OpenAI is great, but many providers offer cheaper pricing, larger context windows, open weights, or specialized capabilities. This page helps you find the right model for your needs.

Price Comparison Anthropic (Claude) Google (Gemini) Meta (Llama) DeepSeek Mistral Free Alternatives Open Weights

💰 Price Comparison: OpenAI vs Alternatives

How do alternative providers compare on price? All prices per million tokens.

Provider	Model	Input $/1M	Output $/1M	Context	Tool Call
OpenAI	gpt-4.1	$2	$8	1M	✅
OpenAI	gpt-4o	$2.5	$10	128K	✅
OpenAI	gpt-4o-mini	$0.15	$0.6	128K	✅
Google	gemini-2.5-pro	$1.25	$10	1M
Google	gemini-2.5-flash	$0.3	$2.5	1M
DeepSeek	deepseek-r1	$1.35	$5.4	65K
DeepSeek	deepseek-v3	$0.32	$0.89	163K
Meta	llama-4-maverick	$0.25	$0.87	1M	✅

🟣 Anthropic (Claude)

Anthropic's Claude models are known for superior reasoning, safety, and long context windows. Claude is a strong alternative for complex tasks, coding, and analysis.

Model	Input $/1M	Output $/1M	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning
claude-haiku-4-5	$1	$5	200K	✅	✅
databricks-claude-haiku-4-5	$1	$5	200K
claude-haiku-4-5	$1	$5	200K		✅
claude-haiku-4-5	$1	$5	200K	✅
claude-sonnet-4-0	$3	$15	1M	✅	✅
claude-sonnet-4-5	$3	$15	1M	✅	✅
claude-sonnet-4-6	$3	$15	1M	✅	✅
databricks-claude-sonnet-4-5	$3	$15	200K
databricks-claude-sonnet-4	$3	$15	200K
claude-sonnet-4-6	$3	$15	1M		✅
claude-sonnet-4-5	$3	$15	200K	✅
claude-sonnet-4-6	$3	$15	200K	✅
claude-sonnet-4	$3	$15	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-5	$5	$25	200K	✅	✅
claude-opus-4-6	$5	$25	1M	✅	✅
claude-opus-4-7	$5	$25	1M	✅	✅
databricks-claude-opus-4-5	$5	$25	200K
claude-opus-4-7	$5	$25	1M		✅
claude-opus-4-5	$5	$25	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-6	$5	$25	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-7	$5	$25	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-5	$6.25	$31.25	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-0	$15	$75	200K	✅	✅
claude-opus-4-1	$15	$75	200K	✅	✅
databricks-claude-opus-4-1	$15	$75	200K
claude-opus-4-1	$15	$75	200K	✅
claude-opus-4	$15	$75	200K	✅
claude-opus-4-6-fast	$30	$150	1M	✅	✅
claude-opus-4-7-fast	$30	$150	1M	✅	✅

🔵 Google (Gemini)

Google's Gemini models offer multimodal capabilities (text, image, audio, video) with competitive pricing and massive context windows.

Model	Input $/1M	Output $/1M	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning
gemini-1.5-flash-8b	$0.0375	$0.15	1M
gemini-1.5-flash	$0.075	$0.3	1M
gemini-1.5-flash-8b	$0.075	$0.3	1M	✅
gemini-1.5-flash	$0.075	$0.3	1M	✅
gemini-2.0-flash-lite	$0.075	$0.3	1M	✅
gemini-2-0-flash-lite	$0.075	$0.3	1M	✅
gemini-2.0-flash	$0.1	$0.4	1M	✅
gemini-2.5-flash-lite	$0.1	$0.4	1M	✅
gemini-2-5-flash-lite	$0.1	$0.4	1M	✅
gemini-2.5-flash	$0.15	$3.5	1M	✅	✅
gemini-2-0-flash	$0.15	$0.6	1M	✅
databricks-gemini-3-1-flash-lite	$0.25	$1.5	128K
gemini-3.1-flash-lite	$0.25	$1.5	1M		✅
gemini-3-1-flash-lite	$0.25	$1.5	200K	✅
databricks-gemini-2-5-flash	$0.3	$2.5	128K
gemini-2.5-flash	$0.3	$2.5	1M		✅
gemini-2-5-flash	$0.3	$2.5	1M	✅
gemini-3-flash	$0.5	$3	200K	✅
databricks-gemini-3-flash	$0.63	$3.75	128K
databricks-gemini-2-5-pro	$1.25	$10	128K
gemini-2.5-pro	$1.25	$10	1M		✅
gemini-1.5-pro	$1.25	$5	2M	✅
gemini-2.5-pro	$1.25	$10	1M	✅	✅
gemini-2-5-pro	$1.25	$10	1M	✅
gemini-3.1-pro	$2	$12	1M		✅
gemini-3-pro	$2	$12	200K	✅
databricks-gemini-3-1-pro	$2.5	$15	128K
chirp-3.0-HD	$?	$?	?
gemma-3-12b-it	Free		131K
gemma-3-1b-it	Free		131K
gemma-3-27b-it	Free		131K
gemma-3-4b-it	Free		131K
gemma-3n-E2B-it	Free		131K
gemma-3n-E4B-it	Free		131K
imagen-3.0-fast-generate	$?	$?	?
imagen-3.0-generate	$?	$?	?
imagen-4.0-fast-generate	$?	$?	?
imagen-4.0-generate	$?	$?	?
lyria-2.0	$?	$?	?
veo-2.0-generate	$?	$?	?

🦙 Meta (Llama)

Meta's Llama models are open-weight, meaning you can download and run them locally. Great for privacy-sensitive applications and cost optimization.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call	Open Weights
meta-llama-4-scout	meta	10M	✅
meta-llama-4-maverick-17b	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅	✅
meta-llama-4-scout-17b	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅	✅
llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8	deepinfra	1M
llama-4-maverick	digitalocean	1M	✅	✅
meta-llama--Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8	gmicloud	1M	✅	✅
llama-4-maverick	google-vertex	1M	✅	✅
llama-4-scout	google-vertex	1M	✅	✅
meta-llama--Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8	klusterai	1M		✅
meta-llama--llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8	novitaai	1M
meta-llama-4-maverick	meta	1M	✅
llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct	cloudflare	327K	✅	✅
llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct	deepinfra	327K
meta-llama--Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct	gmicloud	327K	✅	✅
llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct	vultr	327K	✅	✅

🔮 DeepSeek

DeepSeek offers high-performance reasoning and chat models at significantly lower prices than OpenAI. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on reasoning benchmarks.

Model	Input $/1M	Output $/1M	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning
deepseek--deepseek-ocr-2	$0.03	$0.03	8K
deepseek--deepseek-ocr	$0.03	$0.03	8K
deepseek--deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b	$0.06	$0.09	128K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B	$0.1	$0.2	131K		✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$0.126	$0.252	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$0.14	$0.28	1M		✅
deepseek-chat	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅
deepseek-reasoner	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B	$0.14	$0.39	131K		✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$0.14	$0.28	1M	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b	$0.15	$0.15	32K
deepseek--deepseek-4-flash	$0.182	$0.364	?
deepseek-v3-0324	$0.2	$0.77	163K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B	$0.2	$0.2	131K		✅
deepseek--DeepSeek-R1	$0.2	$0.8	163K		✅
deepseek--DeepSeek-V3.1	$0.2	$0.8	163K
deepseek-v3.1	$0.21	$0.79	163K		✅
deepseek--deepseek-ocr-2	$0.216	$0.216	8K	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B	$0.25	$0.75	131K		✅
deepseek-v3.2	$0.252	$0.378	131K	✅	✅
deepseek-v3.2	$0.26	$0.38	163K
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2	$0.269	$0.4	163K	✅	✅
deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$0.27	$0.95	163K		✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	$0.27	$1	163K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.1	$0.27	$1	163K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	$0.27	$0.41	163K
deepseek--deepseek-v3-0324	$0.27	$1.12	163K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$0.27	$1	131K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1	$0.27	$1	131K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2-exp	$0.27	$0.41	163K	✅	✅
deepseek-v3.1-nex-n1	$0.27	$1	131K	✅
deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$0.27	$1	163K	✅
deepseek-v3.2-exp	$0.27	$0.41	163K	✅
deepseek-v3.2	$0.27	$0.42	163K	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.2-TEE	$0.28	$0.42	131K	✅	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3-0324	$0.28	$0.88	163K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3-0324	$0.28	$1.14	163K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1-release	$0.294	$0.441	?
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1	$0.294	$0.441	?
DeepSeek-V3.2	$0.3	$0.45	160K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b	$0.3	$0.3	64K
deepseek-v3	$0.32	$0.89	163K
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$0.364	$0.546	?
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2-exp-non-thinking	$0.364	$0.546	128K	✅
deepseek--deepseek‑v3.2‑exp-thinking	$0.364	$0.546	?
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2-speciale	$0.36855	$0.56186	?
deepseek-v3--fp-8	$0.4	$1.2	131K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3-turbo	$0.4	$1.3	64K	✅
deepseek-v4-pro	$0.435	$0.87	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b	$0.497	$4.881	131K		✅
deepseek-v3-1	$0.5	$1.5	131K	✅
deepseek-r1-0528	$0.5	$2.15	163K		✅
deepseek-3.2	$0.5	$1.6	131K	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.2	$0.5	$1.5	163K	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B	$0.5	$2.18	163K		✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	$0.5	$0.9	131K		✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1	$0.5	$2.18	163K		✅
deepseek-r1-0528--fp-8	$0.5	$2.15	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-0528	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b	$0.55	$2.75	32K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b	$0.55	$2.75	32K		✅
deepseek-v32-exp	$0.55	$2.75	131K
deepseek-v32-speciale	$0.55	$2.75	131K
deepseek-v32	$0.55	$2.75	131K
deepseek-v4-flash	$0.55	$2.75	131K
deepseek-v4-pro	$0.55	$2.75	131K		✅
deepseek-v3-2	$0.56	$1.68	65K	✅
deepseek-v3-1	$0.6	$1.7	65K
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V3.1	$0.6	$1.7	131K	✅
deepseek-v3-2	$0.62	$1.85	65K	✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$0.7	$0.8	131K		✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-0528	$0.7	$2.3	163K		✅
deepseek--deepseek-prover-v2-671b	$0.7	$2.5	160K
deepseek--deepseek-r1-0528	$0.7	$2.5	163K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-turbo	$0.7	$2.5	64K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$0.8	$0.8	8K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$0.99	$0.99	131K		✅
deepseek-r1-0528-turbo	$1	$3	32K		✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash	$1	$2	1M	✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$1	$2	131K		✅
deepseek-v4-flash	$1	$2	1M	✅
deepseek-r1	$1.35	$5.4	65K
deepseek-r1	$1.35	$5.4	65K
deepseek-v4-pro	$1.521	$3.042	716K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-pro	$1.67	$3.38	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-v4	$1.74	$3.48	131K	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	65K
deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	163K	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	1M	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	1M	✅	✅
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	$1.75	$3.5	1M	✅	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V2.5	$2	$2	163K
deepseek--deepseek-v3--community	$2	$8	64K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3-0324	$2	$8	163K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3-turbo	$2	$8	64K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2-exp	$2	$3	163K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.2	$2	$3	163K	✅
deepseek-v3.2	$2	$3	163K	✅
deepseek-v3	$2	$8	163K	✅
deepseek-v3-0324	$2	$8	128K	✅
deepseek-v3.2	$2	$3	128K	✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-V4-Pro	$2.1	$4.4	131K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-pro	$2.262	$4.524	?
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$2.44	$2.44	131K		✅
deepseek-ai--DeepSeek-R1-0528	$2.5	$5	163K		✅
DeepSeek-V3.1	$3	$4.5	131K
DeepSeek-V3.2	$3	$4.5	32K
deepseek--deepseek-prover-v2-671b	$4	$16	160K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1--community	$4	$16	64K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-0528	$4	$16	163K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-turbo	$4	$16	64K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$4	$12	131K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v3.1	$4	$12	131K	✅
deepseek-r1	$4	$16	163K		✅
deepseek-v3.1-terminus	$4	$12	163K		✅
deepseek-r1-0528	$4	$16	128K	✅	✅
deepseek-v3.1	$4	$12	128K	✅
deepseek--deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	$5.8	$5.8	32K	✅	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-pro	$12	$24	1M	✅
deepseek-v4-pro	$12	$24	128K	✅	✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	Free		131K		✅
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b	Free		131K		✅

🇫🇷 Mistral

Mistral offers both open-weight and commercial models. Known for efficiency and European data sovereignty.

Model	Input $/1M	Output $/1M	Context	Tool Call	Open Weights
mistralai--Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407	$0.008	$0.001	131K		✅
mistral-nemo-instruct-2407	$0.02	$0.04	131K
mistral-nemo-12b-instruct--fp-8	$0.0375	$0.1	131K	✅	✅
ministral-3b	$0.04	$0.04	128K	✅
voxtral-mini	$0.04	$0.04	128K
mistralai--mistral-nemo	$0.04	$0.17	60K
mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501	$0.05	$0.08	32K
mistralai--Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501	$0.05	$0.08	32K		✅
mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506	$0.075	$0.2	128K
mistralai--Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct	$0.1	$0.4	131K	✅	✅
mistral-small-3-1	$0.1	$0.3	128K	✅
ministral-8b	$0.1	$0.1	128K	✅
voxtral-small	$0.1	$0.3	128K
Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506	$0.1	$0.31	131K
mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1	$0.11	$0.19	32K		✅
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	$0.11	$0.11	65K
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407	$0.14	$0.14	65K
mistral-mistral-7b	$0.15	$0.2	32K		✅
mistral-7b	$0.15	$0.2	32K
mistral-nemo	$0.15	$0.15	128K	✅
mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506	$0.15	$0.35	131K	✅	✅
mistral-small	$0.2	$0.6	128K	✅
mistral-nemo-instruct-2407	$0.2	$0.2	131K		✅
mistralai--Mistral-7B	$0.2	$2	8K		✅
mistralai--Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506	$0.3	$0.3	?	✅
mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct	$0.351	$0.555	131K	✅	✅
mistral-medium-3	$0.4	$2	128K	✅
mistral-medium	$0.4	$2	128K	✅
mixtral-8x7b	$0.45	$0.7	32K	✅
mistral-mistral-large-3	$0.5	$1.5	128K	✅
mistralai--Magistral-Small	$0.5	$2	131K		✅
magistral-small	$0.5	$1.5	128K	✅
mistral-large-3-675b-instruct-2512	$0.55	$2.75	262K	✅	✅
mistral-small-4-119b-2603	$0.55	$2.75	131K	✅	✅
mixtral-8x22b	$0.8	$1.2	64K	✅
mistral-mistral-small	$1	$3	128K	✅
mistral-ai--mixtral-8x22b	$1.26	$1.26	?
mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501	$1.26	$1.26	32K	✅
mistral-large	$2	$6	128K	✅
pixtral-large	$2	$6	128K	✅
mistral-mistral-large	$4	$12	128K	✅
mistral-large-2407	$4	$12	128K	✅
codestral	Free		256K
devstral	Free		128K	✅

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81 models are available at zero cost — perfect for testing, prototyping, and learning. Many support tool calling and have large context windows.

Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call	Reasoning
openrouter--owl-alpha	openrouter	1M	✅
deepseek--deepseek-v4-flash--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
google--lyria-3-clip-preview	openrouter	1M
google--lyria-3-pro-preview	openrouter	1M
qwen--qwen3-coder--free	openrouter	1M	✅
nvidia--nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b--free	openrouter	1M	✅	✅
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅
gemma-4-31b-it	auriko	262K	✅	✅
arcee-ai--trinity-large-thinking--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
google--gemma-4-31b-it--free	openrouter	262K	✅	✅
codestral	mistral	256K
nvidia--nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning--free	openrouter	256K	✅	✅
hunyuan-lite	tencent	250K
minimax--minimax-m2.5--free	openrouter	204K	✅	✅

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Model	Provider	Context	Tool Call
google--gemma-4-31b-it	orcarouter	1M	✅
qwen--qwen3.5-flash-2026-02-23	orcarouter	1M	✅
qwen--qwen3.5-flash	orcarouter	1M	✅
qwen--qwen3.6-flash-2026-04-16	orcarouter	1M	✅
qwen--qwen3.6-flash	orcarouter	1M	✅
MiniMax-Text-01	302ai	1M
llama-4-maverick	302ai	1M
llama-4-scout	302ai	1M
meta-llama-4-maverick-17b	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅
meta-llama-4-scout-17b	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅
minimax-m2-1	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅
minimax-m2-5	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅
minimax-m2	amazon-bedrock	1M	✅
minimax-m2-5	baseten	1M	✅
llama-4-maverick	digitalocean	1M	✅

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