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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
- 100%
- Response time
- 7 ms typical, 26 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 31 min ago
- Next check
- in 2 min
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"
}
]
}Security scan
- No findings. We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
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