Best Small LLM AI models (2026)

Small LLM

1M ctx · $0.07/$0.30 per 1M · Google

Gemini 1.5 Flash is a small, fast, and low-cost multimodal LLM from Google, designed for high-throughput tasks. It excel...

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200K ctx · $0.80/$4 per 1M · Anthropic

Claude 3.5 Haiku is Anthropic's fastest, low-cost model designed for latency-sensitive and high-volume workloads. It is ...

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128K ctx · $0.15/$0.60 per 1M · OpenAI

GPT-4o mini is a smaller, low-cost OpenAI model designed for high-volume tasks. It supports both text and vision inputs,...

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128K ctx · Meta

Llama 3.1 8B is a small, open-weights language model from Meta designed for efficiency on modest hardware, such as on-de...

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32K ctx · $0.20/$0.60 per 1M · Mistral AI

Mistral Small is a compact, cost-efficient language model released by Mistral AI under the Apache 2.0 license. It is des...