What is the cheapest LLM API that supports tool use?
The cheapest LLM with tool use and at least 32k context is mistralai/mistral-nemo at $0.029 per 1M input tokens and $0.03 per 1M output tokens.
| mistralai/mistral-nemo | in $0.029 · out $0.03 per 1M · ctx 131,072 |
| inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash | in $0.021 · out $0.063 per 1M · ctx 262,144 |
| ~z-ai/glm-flash-latest | in $0.0285 · out $0.0923 per 1M · ctx 1,048,576 |
| z-ai/glm-5.3-flash | in $0.0285 · out $0.0923 per 1M · ctx 1,048,576 |
| openai/gpt-oss-20b:batch | in $0.024 · out $0.112 per 1M · ctx 131,072 |
| qwen/qwen3.7-flash | in $0.03 · out $0.13 per 1M · ctx 1,000,000 |
| openai/gpt-oss-20b | in $0.03 · out $0.13 per 1M · ctx 131,072 |
| openai/gpt-oss-120b:batch | in $0.0296 · out $0.136 per 1M · ctx 131,072 |
| meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct | in $0.05 · out $0.08 per 1M · ctx 131,072 |
| amazon/nova-micro-v1 | in $0.035 · out $0.14 per 1M · ctx 128,000 |
Get this by API
One call, US$0.001 in USDC (x402, Base or Solana), or with an X-API-KEY. 100 free calls/day with the header X-Free-Trial: 1.
curl -H "X-Free-Trial: 1" "https://intel.degenscan.io/v1/ai/cheapest?needs=tools&min_context=32000&limit=10"
MCP: https://intel.degenscan.io/mcp → tool ai_cheapest. Docs: https://intel.degenscan.io/docs · llms.txt
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