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Cheapest Reasoning

by modelprices.xyz in AI models & inference

x402 APIPassing, checked 31 min ago

Cheapest reasoning-model leaderboard: the 50 lowest-cost AI models with extended reasoning / chain-of-thought support, ranked by inference cost per token — o3, Claude 5 thinking, Gemini 3 Pro, DeepSeek R1, Qwen QwQ and more across 70+ providers. Input, output and cache USD per 1M tokens with context windows joined in. Refreshed hourly.

GET https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/reasoning

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Uptime
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Response time
7 ms typical, 26 ms slowest 5%
Last check
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How to call it

# See the payment challenge (nothing is charged)
curl -i -X GET "https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/reasoning"
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client().register(
  "eip155:8453",
  new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY)),
);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? Preflight it first for $0.005:
// GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmodelprices.xyz%2Fllm%2Fcheapest%2Freasoning
const res = await pay("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/reasoning");
console.log(await res.json());

Example input

{}

Example output

{
  "board": "Cheapest reasoning models",
  "generated_at": "2026-07-14T02:00:00.000Z",
  "model_count": 24,
  "models": [
    {
      "context_window": 200000,
      "id": "deepseek-r1",
      "input_per_mtok": 3,
      "output_per_mtok": 15,
      "provider": "anthropic"
    }
  ]
}

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