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Cheaper alternatives to Grok 4

Drop-in substitutes within 10% of Grok 4's average benchmark, priced lower, sorted by price. Target price n/a/M · target score 53.9.

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gpt-oss-120b (free)
OpenAI
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Price
Free
Score
68.7
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131K
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gpt-oss-20b (free)
OpenAI
Price
Free
Score
66.4
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131K
Save 0%·123% of Grok 4
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek
Price
$0.015
Score
55.4
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1.0M
Save 0%·103% of Grok 4
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gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI
Price
$0.018
Score
53.1
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131K
Save 0%·99% of Grok 4
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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek
Price
$0.025
Score
61.6
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1.0M
Save 0%·114% of Grok 4
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gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
Price
$0.037
Score
49.3
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131K
Save 0%·91% of Grok 4
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Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Alibaba Qwen
Price
$0.048
Score
55.3
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262K
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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
baidu
Price
$0.070
Score
57.0
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131K
Save 0%·106% of Grok 4
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite
Google DeepMind
Price
$0.075
Score
64.2
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1.0M
Save 0%·119% of Grok 4
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Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Qwen
Price
$0.080
Score
51.5
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131K
Save 0%·96% of Grok 4
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The cheapest drop-in alternative is gpt-oss-120b (free) at Free/M input · NaN% cheaper than Grok 4 with 127% of the benchmark score.