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Budget Planner

What's the best AI model you can afford?

No prompts, no token counting. Tell us how many people will use it, how heavily, and your monthly budget — we'll show the best model that fits, and what each option would cost.

Your plan

Everyone you expect to use the AI

We'll show the best models you can afford

How much will each person use it daily?

≈ 20 messages / person / day

What will they use it for?

~30 for everyday use, ~21 for weekdays only

Total messages / month
30,000

Best models for your budget

Best within your $500.00/mo budget: Claude Opus 4.8 at $420.00/mo — $80.00/mo to spare.

Within budget · best answers first

Claude Opus 4.8Best pick
Quality 97/100
$420.00/mo
within budget
o3
Quality 96/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.1
Quality 96/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.1 Chat
Quality 96/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Quality 96/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5
Quality 96/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Chat
Quality 96/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.2
Quality 96/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.2-Codex
Quality 96/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
Claude Opus 4.7
Quality 96/100
$420.00/mo
within budget
Claude Opus 4.5
Quality 96/100
$420.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Codex
Quality 95/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4o
Quality 95/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.4
Quality 95/100
$240.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
Quality 95/100
$300.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Image
Quality 95/100
$360.00/mo
within budget
Claude Opus 4.6
Quality 95/100
$420.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.5
Quality 95/100
$480.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4.1
Quality 94/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4o (2024-08-06)
Quality 94/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
Quality 93/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Quality 93/100
$192.00/mo
within budget
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
Quality 93/100
$192.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.3 Chat
Quality 93/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.2 Chat
Quality 93/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
GPT Chat Latest
Quality 93/100
$480.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.1-Codex
Quality 92/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Quality 92/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
Quality 92/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Quality 92/100
$150.00/mo
within budget
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)
Quality 92/100
$192.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.3-Codex
Quality 92/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.4 Image 2
Quality 92/100
$372.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Quality 88/100
$3.36/mo
within budget
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Quality 88/100
$3.60/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Quality 88/100
$15.36/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Quality 88/100
$28.80/mo
within budget
Qwen3 235B A22B
Quality 88/100
$32.76/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Quality 88/100
$38.64/mo
within budget
Qwen3.7 Max
Quality 88/100
$75.00/mo
within budget
o3 Mini High
Quality 88/100
$79.20/mo
within budget
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Quality 88/100
$99.84/mo
within budget
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Quality 88/100
$252.00/mo
within budget
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Quality 88/100
$252.00/mo
within budget
Claude Sonnet 4
Quality 88/100
$252.00/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Quality 87/100
$11.40/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Quality 87/100
$26.88/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
Quality 87/100
$37.44/mo
within budget
Grok 4.20
Quality 87/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
Quality 87/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Max Thinking
Quality 87/100
$65.52/mo
within budget
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
Quality 87/100
$192.00/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3 0324
Quality 86/100
$14.04/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3.1
Quality 86/100
$14.52/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
Quality 86/100
$24.96/mo
within budget
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Quality 86/100
$31.20/mo
within budget
Hermes 3 405B Instruct
Quality 86/100
$36.00/mo
within budget
Grok 4.3
Quality 86/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
o3 Mini
Quality 86/100
$79.20/mo
within budget
Mistral Large 2407
Quality 86/100
$120.00/mo
within budget
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Quality 85/100
$13.44/mo
within budget
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Quality 85/100
$14.40/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3
Quality 85/100
$14.41/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
Quality 85/100
$17.88/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Quality 85/100
$20.88/mo
within budget
Llama 3 70B Instruct
Quality 85/100
$21.12/mo
within budget
Qwen3.7 Plus
Quality 85/100
$23.04/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Mini
Quality 85/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
R1
Quality 85/100
$46.80/mo
within budget
GPT-4o Search Preview
Quality 85/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Quality 84/100
$11.70/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Quality 84/100
$15.36/mo
within budget
Qwen3.6 Plus
Quality 84/100
$31.20/mo
within budget
DeepSeek R1
Quality 84/100
$37.80/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Coder Plus
Quality 84/100
$54.60/mo
within budget
Nova Pro 1.0
Quality 84/100
$57.60/mo
within budget
Hermes 4 405B
Quality 84/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
o4 Mini High
Quality 84/100
$79.20/mo
within budget
Mistral Large
Quality 84/100
$120.00/mo
within budget
Sonar Reasoning Pro
Quality 84/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
Sonar Pro Search
Quality 84/100
$252.00/mo
within budget
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Quality 83/100
$27.84/mo
within budget
Qwen3 32B
Quality 82/100
$5.28/mo
within budget
Llama 4 Scout
Quality 82/100
$6.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
Quality 82/100
$7.49/mo
within budget
Nemotron 3 Super
Quality 82/100
$7.56/mo
within budget
Solar Pro 3
Quality 82/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Coder Next
Quality 82/100
$12.24/mo
within budget
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5
Quality 82/100
$14.40/mo
within budget
Qwen Plus 0728
Quality 82/100
$15.60/mo
within budget
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Quality 82/100
$15.60/mo
within budget
Qwen-Plus
Quality 82/100
$15.60/mo
within budget
Gemma 2 27B
Quality 82/100
$23.40/mo
within budget
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Quality 82/100
$25.20/mo
within budget
R1 Distill Llama 70B
Quality 82/100
$28.80/mo
within budget
GLM 4.7
Quality 82/100
$30.60/mo
within budget
GLM 4.6
Quality 82/100
$31.20/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Quality 82/100
$31.20/mo
within budget
Kimi K2.5
Quality 82/100
$33.30/mo
within budget
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Quality 82/100
$38.40/mo
within budget
GLM 4.5
Quality 82/100
$40.80/mo
within budget
Cogito v2.1 671B
Quality 82/100
$45.00/mo
within budget
o4 Mini
Quality 82/100
$79.20/mo
within budget
Llama 3.1 70B Hanami x1
Quality 82/100
$108.00/mo
within budget
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
Quality 82/100
$120.00/mo
within budget
Sonar Deep Research
Quality 82/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
o4 Mini Deep Research
Quality 82/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
Command R+ (08-2024)
Quality 82/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
Command A
Quality 82/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
GPT Audio
Quality 82/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
Nova Premier 1.0
Quality 82/100
$210.00/mo
within budget
Sonar Pro
Quality 82/100
$252.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Quality 81/100
$4.92/mo
within budget
Gemma 4 31B
Quality 81/100
$7.08/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Quality 81/100
$9.36/mo
within budget
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Quality 81/100
$15.60/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Quality 81/100
$21.84/mo
within budget
WizardLM-2 8x22B
Quality 81/100
$22.32/mo
within budget
Gemma 3 27B
Quality 80/100
$3.84/mo
within budget
Hermes 4 70B
Quality 80/100
$7.92/mo
within budget
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
Quality 80/100
$25.08/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Quality 80/100
$37.20/mo
within budget
GLM 5
Quality 80/100
$37.44/mo
within budget
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Quality 80/100
$48.00/mo
within budget
GPT-5.4 Mini
Quality 80/100
$72.00/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V3.2
Quality 79/100
$9.61/mo
within budget
gpt-oss-120b
Quality 78/100
$3.10/mo
within budget
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Quality 78/100
$3.47/mo
within budget
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Quality 78/100
$4.32/mo
within budget
Command R (08-2024)
Quality 78/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Codestral 2508
Quality 78/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
GLM 4.6V
Quality 78/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B
Quality 78/100
$24.60/mo
within budget
Mistral Medium 3
Quality 78/100
$33.60/mo
within budget
Devstral 2 2512
Quality 78/100
$33.60/mo
within budget
GLM 4.5V
Quality 78/100
$36.00/mo
within budget
Kimi K2.7 Code
Quality 78/100
$59.76/mo
within budget
GLM 5.1
Quality 78/100
$60.48/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Max
Quality 78/100
$65.52/mo
within budget
Mistral Medium 3.5
Quality 78/100
$126.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Quality 76/100
$6.72/mo
within budget
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Quality 76/100
$15.08/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5-27B
Quality 76/100
$23.40/mo
within budget
Mistral Large 3
Quality 76/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
Mistral Medium 3.1
Quality 76/100
$33.60/mo
within budget
Qwen3.6 27B
Quality 76/100
$44.96/mo
within budget
GLM 5 Turbo
Quality 76/100
$76.80/mo
within budget
Inflection 3 Productivity
Quality 76/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4o-mini
Quality 75/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Qwen3 14B
Quality 74/100
$5.28/mo
within budget
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Quality 74/100
$5.40/mo
within budget
Llama 4 Maverick
Quality 74/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
Quality 74/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2
Quality 74/100
$30.60/mo
within budget
Sonar
Quality 74/100
$36.00/mo
within budget
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Quality 74/100
$67.20/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Image Mini
Quality 74/100
$84.00/mo
within budget
Magnum v4 72B
Quality 74/100
$132.00/mo
within budget
Jamba Large 1.7
Quality 74/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3 30B A3B
Quality 73/100
$8.88/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Quality 73/100
$15.36/mo
within budget
Mistral Nemo
Quality 72/100
$0.84/mo
within budget
Mistral Small 3
Quality 72/100
$2.16/mo
within budget
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Quality 72/100
$2.16/mo
within budget
Phi 4
Quality 72/100
$3.24/mo
within budget
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Quality 72/100
$4.20/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5-Flash
Quality 72/100
$4.68/mo
within budget
Hy3 preview
Quality 72/100
$4.70/mo
within budget
Qwen3 8B
Quality 72/100
$6.00/mo
within budget
GLM 4.7 Flash
Quality 72/100
$6.24/mo
within budget
Llama Guard 4 12B
Quality 72/100
$6.48/mo
within budget
Ministral 3 14B 2512
Quality 72/100
$7.20/mo
within budget
Ling-2.6-1T
Quality 72/100
$9.30/mo
within budget
Olmo 3 32B Think
Quality 72/100
$9.60/mo
within budget
Mistral Small 4
Quality 72/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Saba
Quality 72/100
$12.00/mo
within budget
MiniMax-01
Quality 72/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
Claude 3 Haiku
Quality 72/100
$21.00/mo
within budget
MiniMax M3
Quality 72/100
$21.60/mo
within budget
Coder Large
Quality 72/100
$21.60/mo
within budget
GPT-4.1 Mini
Quality 72/100
$28.80/mo
within budget
Seed 1.6
Quality 72/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Quality 72/100
$37.20/mo
within budget
Morph V3 Large
Quality 72/100
$44.40/mo
within budget
Kimi K2 0905
Quality 72/100
$44.40/mo
within budget
Kimi K2 Thinking
Quality 72/100
$44.40/mo
within budget
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
Quality 72/100
$48.00/mo
within budget
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Quality 72/100
$48.00/mo
within budget
Kimi K2.6
Quality 72/100
$57.24/mo
within budget
GLM 5.2
Quality 72/100
$86.40/mo
within budget
Palmyra X5
Quality 72/100
$86.40/mo
within budget
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Quality 72/100
$144.00/mo
within budget
Inflection 3 Pi
Quality 72/100
$180.00/mo
within budget
Gemma 3 12B
Quality 70/100
$3.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3.5-9B
Quality 70/100
$4.20/mo
within budget
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
Quality 70/100
$10.80/mo
within budget
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
Quality 70/100
$12.42/mo
within budget
Trinity Large Thinking
Quality 70/100
$15.48/mo
within budget
Qwen3 Coder Flash
Quality 70/100
$16.38/mo
within budget
Grok Build 0.1
Quality 70/100
$48.00/mo
within budget
Claude Haiku 4.5
Quality 70/100
$84.00/mo
within budget
LFM2-24B-A2B
Quality 68/100
$2.16/mo
within budget
gpt-oss-20b
Quality 68/100
$2.38/mo
within budget
Command R7B (12-2024)
Quality 68/100
$2.70/mo
within budget
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Quality 68/100
$3.60/mo
within budget
Nova Lite 1.0
Quality 68/100
$4.32/mo
within budget
Reka Flash 3
Quality 68/100
$4.80/mo
within budget
Llama 3 8B Instruct
Quality 68/100
$5.04/mo
within budget
Voxtral Small 24B 2507
Quality 68/100
$6.00/mo
within budget
Phi 4 Mini Instruct
Quality 68/100
$6.12/mo
within budget
Seed-2.0-Mini
Quality 68/100
$7.20/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Quality 68/100
$7.92/mo
within budget
Ring-2.6-1T
Quality 68/100
$9.30/mo
within budget
Hunyuan A13B Instruct
Quality 68/100
$10.20/mo
within budget
Cydonia 24B V4.1
Quality 68/100
$13.20/mo
within budget
GLM 4.5 Air
Quality 68/100
$13.32/mo
within budget
MiniMax M2.5
Quality 68/100
$14.40/mo
within budget
UnslopNemo 12B
Quality 68/100
$14.40/mo
within budget
Mercury 2
Quality 68/100
$15.00/mo
within budget
INTELLECT-3
Quality 68/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
MiniMax M2.7
Quality 68/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
Qwen3.6 Flash
Quality 68/100
$18.00/mo
within budget
MiniMax M2
Quality 68/100
$18.12/mo
within budget
MiniMax M2.1
Quality 68/100
$18.36/mo
within budget
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Quality 68/100
$19.19/mo
within budget
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Quality 68/100
$20.88/mo
within budget
KAT-Coder-Pro V2
Quality 68/100
$21.60/mo
within budget
MiniMax M2-her
Quality 68/100
$21.60/mo
within budget
Skyfall 36B V2
Quality 68/100
$22.80/mo
within budget
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
Quality 68/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Quality 68/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
Seed-2.0-Lite
Quality 68/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
Virtuoso Large
Quality 68/100
$32.40/mo
within budget
MiniMax M1
Quality 68/100
$36.00/mo
within budget
Nova 2 Lite
Quality 68/100
$37.20/mo
within budget
Aion-2.0
Quality 68/100
$38.40/mo
within budget
Kimi K2 0711
Quality 68/100
$41.28/mo
within budget
GPT Audio Mini
Quality 68/100
$43.20/mo
within budget
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
Quality 68/100
$48.00/mo
within budget
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Quality 68/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k
Quality 68/100
$120.00/mo
within budget
Seed 1.6 Flash
Quality 65/100
$5.40/mo
within budget
Rocinante 12B
Quality 65/100
$9.24/mo
within budget
Aion-1.0
Quality 65/100
$192.00/mo
within budget
Ministral 3 8B 2512
Quality 62/100
$5.40/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
Quality 62/100
$7.20/mo
within budget
GPT-5.4 Nano
Quality 62/100
$19.80/mo
within budget
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Quality 62/100
$24.00/mo
within budget
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Quality 62/100
$24.00/mo
within budget
Morph V3 Fast
Quality 62/100
$33.60/mo
within budget
Relace Apply 3
Quality 62/100
$35.40/mo
within budget
Relace Search
Quality 62/100
$60.00/mo
within budget
Switchpoint Router
Quality 62/100
$61.20/mo
within budget
Granite 4.1 8B
Quality 60/100
$2.40/mo
within budget
Llama 3.3 70B
Quality 60/100
$6.24/mo
within budget
MiMo-V2.5
Quality 60/100
$6.72/mo
within budget
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Quality 58/100
$0.84/mo
within budget
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Quality 58/100
$1.56/mo
within budget
Granite 4.0 Micro
Quality 58/100
$1.75/mo
within budget
MythoMax 13B
Quality 58/100
$2.16/mo
within budget
Gemma 3 4B
Quality 58/100
$2.40/mo
within budget
Gemma 3n 4B
Quality 58/100
$2.88/mo
within budget
Ministral 3 3B 2512
Quality 58/100
$3.60/mo
within budget
Reka Edge
Quality 58/100
$3.60/mo
within budget
UI-TARS 7B
Quality 58/100
$4.80/mo
within budget
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Quality 58/100
$5.24/mo
within budget
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Quality 58/100
$5.40/mo
within budget
Step 3.5 Flash
Quality 58/100
$5.76/mo
within budget
GPT-5 Nano
Quality 58/100
$6.00/mo
within budget
GPT-4.1 Nano
Quality 58/100
$7.20/mo
within budget
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Quality 58/100
$7.20/mo
within budget
Step 3.7 Flash
Quality 58/100
$18.60/mo
within budget
Weaver (alpha)
Quality 58/100
$30.00/mo
within budget
Aion-1.0-Mini
Quality 58/100
$33.60/mo
within budget
Nova Micro 1.0
Quality 55/100
$2.52/mo
within budget
Trinity Mini
Quality 55/100
$2.88/mo
within budget
Aion-RP 1.0 (8B)
Quality 55/100
$38.40/mo
within budget
Ling-2.6-flash
Quality 52/100
$0.6/mo
within budget
Rnj 1 Instruct
Quality 52/100
$5.40/mo
within budget
ReMM SLERP 13B
Quality 52/100
$18.60/mo
within budget
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Quality 48/100
$3.06/mo
within budget
Perceptron Mk1
Quality 45/100
$21.60/mo
within budget

Over budget

GPT-4 Turbo
Quality 92/100
$600.00/mo
over budget
GPT-4 Turbo Preview
Quality 93/100
$600.00/mo
over budget
o3 Deep Research
Quality 94/100
$720.00/mo
over budget
Claude Fable 5
Quality 93/100
$840.00/mo
over budget
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
Quality 95/100
$840.00/mo
over budget
o1
Quality 95/100
$1,080.00/mo
over budget
Claude Opus 4.1
Quality 96/100
$1,260.00/mo
over budget
Claude Opus 4
Quality 96/100
$1,260.00/mo
over budget
GPT-4
Quality 90/100
$1,440.00/mo
over budget
o3 Pro
Quality 95/100
$1,440.00/mo
over budget
GPT-5 Pro
Quality 96/100
$1,800.00/mo
over budget
GPT-5.2 Pro
Quality 96/100
$2,520.00/mo
over budget
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
Quality 94/100
$2,520.00/mo
over budget
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
Quality 94/100
$2,520.00/mo
over budget
GPT-5.5 Pro
Quality 96/100
$2,880.00/mo
over budget
GPT-5.4 Pro
Quality 96/100
$2,880.00/mo
over budget
o1-pro
Quality 96/100
$10,800.00/mo
over budget

50 people × 20 messages/day × 30 days = 30,000 messages/mo · 800 in + 400 out tokens each, at vendor list rates.

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