Le Chat
Mistral AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The cheapest premium chat plan from a major lab.
AI tools
Every product in the index, with what each plan costs and when it was last verified.
Every price in this index was checked against its source 6 days ago,
on 17 Aug 2026. Figures are USD, monthly billing, individual plans.
Where annual billing is cheaper, the annual rate is shown beside the plan. Credit-metered
products are marked, because on those the sticker price is not what you end up paying.
9 products
editorially ranked — placement is never sold
Civitai
Civitai
✓ 22 Aug 2026
The largest open library of community image models and LoRAs, with on-site generation metered in Buzz.
DeepInfra
DeepInfra
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Token-metered serving for open-weight models at some of the lowest published rates, with no contracts or upfront cost.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free chat with open-weight reasoning models, and the cheapest serious API anywhere — though DeepSeek announced a substantial price rise in August 2026.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Million-token context and strong agentic browsing, with tiers named after tempo markings.
Llama
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Open weights you host yourself.
MiniMax
MiniMax
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Text, voice and video models under one roof, with open-weight text releases and a pay-as-you-go developer platform.
Qwen Chat
Alibaba
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The most widely forked open-weight family.
Z.ai GLM
Zhipu AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
GLM sold as a coding plan that heavily undercuts Western agents.