Ideal für: Cheap Bulk Workloads

Best LLM for Cheap Bulk Workloads

Ranked primarily on input and output $/1M with a benchmark floor so you do not ship junk at volume.

Aktualisiert April 2026. Top 3 diesen Monat: MiMo-V2-Flash, Hunyuan A13B Instruct, Phi 4.

Podium

This month’s top three.

  • 1
    MiMo-V2-Flash
    Xiaomi
    Input / 1M
    $0.09
    Output / 1M
    $0.29
    Context
    262,144
    Model page
  • 2
    Hunyuan A13B Instruct
    Tencent
    Input / 1M
    $0.14
    Output / 1M
    $0.57
    Context
    131,072
    Model page
  • 3
    Phi 4
    Microsoft
    Input / 1M
    $0.07
    Output / 1M
    $0.14
    Context
    16,384
    Model page

So werten wir

Weights tuned for cheap bulk workloads.

Some workloads are massive but forgiving — classification, tagging, summarization, PII scrubbing. The question is: what is the cheapest model that still clears the quality floor? We weight price dominantly here but set a benchmark floor so the recommendation is not useless.

Our full methodology is published on the Methodik-Seite.

Säulen und Gewichte:

  • input price50%
  • output price30%
  • MMLU20%

Full ranking

Top-Modelle

RangModellAnbieterInput $/1MOutput $/1MKontext
1MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi$0.09$0.29262,144
2Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent$0.14$0.57131,072
3Phi 4Microsoft$0.07$0.1416,384
4Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta$0.12$0.38131,072
5Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen$0.12$0.3932,768
6Gemma 4 31BGoogle$0.13$0.38262,144
7Olmo 3 32B ThinkAllen AI$0.15$0.5065,536
8Qwen3 32BQwen$0.08$0.2440,960
9Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta$0.40$0.40131,072
10Qwen3.5-9BQwen$0.10$0.15262,144

Field notes

Tipps für cheap bulk workloads

  • 01

    Use batch pricing aggressively. 50%+ discounts are common.

  • 02

    Use cached-input pricing for repeating preambles.

  • 03

    A cheaper model with a short retry loop often beats a more expensive model one-shot.

FAQ

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The questions teams ask before picking a model for cheap bulk workloads.

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As of April 2026, our weighted top 3 cheapest-but-capable are MiMo-V2-Flash, Hunyuan A13B Instruct, Phi 4.
Often, yes. Providers offer 30–50% discounts on async batch endpoints in exchange for up-to-24h latency.
When its lower accuracy causes retries, downstream fixup, or human review. Always measure end-to-end dollars-per-correct-output, not dollars-per-token.