Cost-effective models with good performance

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Google

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool use performance with substantially lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well suited for interactive development, long running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks. Compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash, it provides broad quality improvements across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability.

The model supports a 1M token context window and multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, with text output. It includes configurable reasoning via thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high), structured output, tool use, and automatic context caching. Gemini 3 Flash Preview is optimized for users who want strong reasoning and agentic behavior without the cost or latency of full scale frontier models.

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

OpenRouter

Amazon

Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a very low-cost multimodal model from Amazon that focused on fast processing of image, video, and text inputs to generate text output. Amazon Nova Lite can handle real-time customer interactions, document analysis, and visual question-answering tasks with high accuracy.

With an input context of 300K tokens, it can analyze multiple images or up to 30 minutes of video in a single input.

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0

Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses in the Amazon Nova family of models at a very low cost. With a context length of 128K tokens and optimized for speed and cost, Amazon Nova Micro excels at tasks such as text summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat, and brainstorming. It has  simple mathematical reasoning and coding abilities.

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

Anthropic

Claude 3.5 Haiku features offers enhanced capabilities in speed, coding accuracy, and tool use. Engineered to excel in real-time applications, it delivers quick response times that are essential for dynamic tasks such as chat interactions and immediate coding suggestions.

This makes it highly suitable for environments that demand both speed and precision, such as software development, customer service bots, and data management systems.

This model is currently pointing to [Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22)](/anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-20241022).

Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku

Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Llama 3.2 1B is a 1-billion-parameter language model focused on efficiently performing natural language tasks, such as summarization, dialogue, and multilingual text analysis. Its smaller size allows it to operate efficiently in low-resource environments while maintaining strong task performance.

Supporting eight core languages and fine-tunable for more, Llama 1.3B is ideal for businesses or developers seeking lightweight yet powerful AI solutions that can operate in diverse multilingual settings without the high computational demand of larger models.

Click here for the [original model card](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama3_2/MODEL_CARD.md).

Usage of this model is subject to [Meta's Acceptable Use Policy](https://www.llama.com/llama3/use-policy/).

Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

OpenAI

GPT-5.2 Chat (AKA Instant) is the fast, lightweight member of the 5.2 family, optimized for low-latency chat while retaining strong general intelligence. It uses adaptive reasoning to selectively “think” on harder queries, improving accuracy on math, coding, and multi-step tasks without slowing down typical conversations. The model is warmer and more conversational by default, with better instruction following and more stable short-form reasoning. GPT-5.2 Chat is designed for high-throughput, interactive workloads where responsiveness and consistency matter more than deep deliberation.

OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat

Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. 

Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing documents, extracting information from videos, generating code, providing accurate grounded answers, and automating multi-step agentic workflows.

Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3.6B active parameters per forward pass, optimized for lower-latency inference and deployability on consumer or single-GPU hardware. The model is trained in OpenAI’s Harmony response format and supports reasoning level configuration, fine-tuning, and agentic capabilities including function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.

OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

Mistral

The largest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B offers frontier capabilities and performance comparable to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 24B counterpart. A powerful and efficient language model with vision capabilities.

Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512

GPT-5-Nano is the smallest and fastest variant in the GPT-5 system, optimized for developer tools, rapid interactions, and ultra-low latency environments. While limited in reasoning depth compared to its larger counterparts, it retains key instruction-following and safety features. It is the successor to GPT-4.1-nano and offers a lightweight option for cost-sensitive or real-time applications.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases. It activates 5.1B parameters per forward pass and is optimized to run on a single H100 GPU with native MXFP4 quantization. The model supports configurable reasoning depth, full chain-of-thought access, and native tool use, including function calling, browsing, and structured output generation.

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. 

Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter, as described in the documentation (https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#max-tokens-for-reasoning).

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash

Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral’s most capable model to date, featuring a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 41B active parameters (675B total), and released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2 is a large language model designed to harmonize high computational efficiency with strong reasoning and agentic tool-use performance. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a fine-grained sparse attention mechanism that reduces training and inference cost while preserving quality in long-context scenarios. A scalable reinforcement learning post-training framework further improves reasoning, with reported performance in the GPT-5 class, and the model has demonstrated gold-medal results on the 2025 IMO and IOI. V3.2 also uses a large-scale agentic task synthesis pipeline to better integrate reasoning into tool-use settings, boosting compliance and generalization in interactive environments.

Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance across reasoning, coding, and computer-use tasks, Haiku 4.5 brings frontier-level capability to real-time and high-volume applications.

It introduces extended thinking to the Haiku line; enabling controllable reasoning depth, summarized or interleaved thought output, and tool-assisted workflows with full support for coding, bash, web search, and computer-use tools. Scoring >73% on SWE-bench Verified, Haiku 4.5 ranks among the world’s best coding models while maintaining exceptional responsiveness for sub-agents, parallelized execution, and scaled deployment.

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking.

Sonnet 4.5 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost. GPT-5 Mini is the successor to OpenAI's o4-mini model.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

Amazon Nova Pro 1.0 is a capable multimodal model from Amazon focused on providing a combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. As of December 2024, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on key benchmarks including visual question answering (TextVQA) and video understanding (VATEX).

Amazon Nova Pro demonstrates strong capabilities in processing both visual and textual information and at analyzing financial documents.

**NOTE**: Video input is not supported at this time.

Amazon: Nova Pro 1.0

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e. multi-pass reasoning) is disabled to prioritize speed, but developers can enable it via the [Reasoning API parameter](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens) to selectively trade off cost for intelligence. 

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out). The Llama 3.3 instruction tuned text only model is optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases and outperforms many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks.

Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai.

[Model Card](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama3_3/MODEL_CARD.md)

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward pass (400B total). It supports multilingual text and image input, and produces multilingual text and code output across 12 supported languages. Optimized for vision-language tasks, Maverick is instruction-tuned for assistant-like behavior, image reasoning, and general-purpose multimodal interaction.

Maverick features early fusion for native multimodality and a 1 million token context window. It was trained on a curated mixture of public, licensed, and Meta-platform data, covering ~22 trillion tokens, with a knowledge cutoff in August 2024. Released on April 5, 2025 under the Llama 4 Community License, Maverick is suited for research and commercial applications requiring advanced multimodal understanding and high model throughput.

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a total of 109B. It supports native multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 supported languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout uses 16 experts per forward pass and features a context length of 10 million tokens, with a training corpus of ~40 trillion tokens.

Built for high efficiency and local or commercial deployment, Llama 4 Scout incorporates early fusion for seamless modality integration. It is instruction-tuned for use in multilingual chat, captioning, and image understanding tasks. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, it was last trained on data up to August 2024 and launched publicly on April 5, 2025.

Meta: Llama 4 Scout

DeepSeek V3, a 685B-parameter, mixture-of-experts model, is the latest iteration of the flagship chat model family from the DeepSeek team.

It succeeds the [DeepSeek V3](/deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3) model and performs really well on a variety of tasks.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324

Gemini Flash 2.0 offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to [Gemini Flash 1.5](/google/gemini-flash-1.5), while maintaining quality on par with larger models like [Gemini Pro 1.5](/google/gemini-pro-1.5). It introduces notable enhancements in multimodal understanding, coding capabilities, complex instruction following, and function calling. These advancements come together to deliver more seamless and robust agentic experiences.

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash

Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic's fastest and most compact model for
near-instant responsiveness. Quick and accurate targeted performance.

See the launch announcement and benchmark results [here](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haiku)

#multimodal

Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku

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- [openai/gpt-5.1](/openai/gpt-5.1)
- [openai/gpt-5](/openai/gpt-5)
- [openai/gpt-5-mini](/openai/gpt-5-mini)
- [openai/gpt-5-nano](/openai/gpt-5-nano)
- [openai/gpt-4.1](/openai/gpt-4.1)
- [openai/gpt-4.1-mini](/openai/gpt-4.1-mini)
- [openai/gpt-4.1-nano](/openai/gpt-4.1-nano)
- [openai/gpt-4o](/openai/gpt-4o)
- [openai/gpt-4o-2024-05-13](/openai/gpt-4o-2024-05-13)
- [openai/gpt-4o-2024-08-06](/openai/gpt-4o-2024-08-06)
- [openai/gpt-4o-2024-11-20](/openai/gpt-4o-2024-11-20)
- [openai/gpt-4o-mini](/openai/gpt-4o-mini)
- [openai/gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18](/openai/gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18)
- [openai/gpt-4-turbo](/openai/gpt-4-turbo)
- [openai/gpt-4-turbo-preview](/openai/gpt-4-turbo-preview)
- [openai/gpt-4-1106-preview](/openai/gpt-4-1106-preview)
- [openai/gpt-4](/openai/gpt-4)
- [openai/gpt-3.5-turbo](/openai/gpt-3.5-turbo)
- [openai/gpt-oss-120b](/openai/gpt-oss-120b)
- [anthropic/claude-opus-4.5](/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5)
- [anthropic/claude-opus-4.1](/anthropic/claude-opus-4.1)
- [anthropic/claude-opus-4](/anthropic/claude-opus-4)
- [anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5](/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5)
- [anthropic/claude-sonnet-4](/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4)
- [anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet](/anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet)
- [anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5](/anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5)
- [anthropic/claude-3.5-haiku](/anthropic/claude-3.5-haiku)
- [anthropic/claude-3-haiku](/anthropic/claude-3-haiku)
- [google/gemini-3-pro-preview](/google/gemini-3-pro-preview)
- [google/gemini-2.5-pro](/google/gemini-2.5-pro)
- [google/gemini-2.0-flash-001](/google/gemini-2.0-flash-001)
- [google/gemini-2.5-flash](/google/gemini-2.5-flash)
- [mistralai/mistral-large](/mistralai/mistral-large)
- [mistralai/mistral-large-2407](/mistralai/mistral-large-2407)
- [mistralai/mistral-large-2411](/mistralai/mistral-large-2411)
- [mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1](/mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1)
- [mistralai/mistral-nemo](/mistralai/mistral-nemo)
- [mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct](/mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct)
- [mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct](/mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct)
- [mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct](/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct)
- [mistralai/codestral-2508](/mistralai/codestral-2508)
- [x-ai/grok-4](/x-ai/grok-4)
- [x-ai/grok-3](/x-ai/grok-3)
- [x-ai/grok-3-mini](/x-ai/grok-3-mini)
- [deepseek/deepseek-r1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1)
- [meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct)
- [meta-llama/llama-3.1-405b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.1-405b-instruct)
- [meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct)
- [meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct)
- [meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct)
- [meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct)
- [qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b](/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b)
- [qwen/qwen3-32b](/qwen/qwen3-32b)
- [qwen/qwen3-14b](/qwen/qwen3-14b)
- [cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024](/cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024)
- [cohere/command-r-08-2024](/cohere/command-r-08-2024)
- [moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking](/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking)
- [perplexity/sonar](/perplexity/sonar)

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