Long Context & RAG LLM Candidates & Listed API Rates

As of 2026-10-22, the lowest paid listed input rate among the 50 Long Context & RAG candidates on this page is Nova Micro 1.0 (OpenRouter) at $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.14 per 1M output tokens (34 more list a $0 free tier, which is usually rate-limited). The list keeps the scenario ranking order rather than sorting by price; verify quality and current provider terms before switching.

Models for 1M+ context, book-length analysis, codebase indexing, and needle-in-a-haystack retrieval.

Ranking computed 2026-10-22 (UTC)

The leaderboard also includes editorial and scenario signals; it is not a pure price sort. Verify current terms at the source.