Best LLMs for chat & support
Assistants, customer support, conversational UX. Every model in the catalog, ranked three ways and priced at a realistic 15M input / 6M output tokens a month for this task.
What the engine picks on the default cost/quality/speed mix before you touch a slider.
Top task score (93/100) at $78.8/mo for this volume.
The cheapest model that stays close to the leader on quality — 82/100 at $3.30/mo.
By quality
Highest task score first.
Best value
Most quality per dollar of monthly spend.
Cheapest
Lowest monthly cost at this volume.
Fit to your volume
The ranking above prices a typical month. Enter your own chat & support volume and, if you like, a monthly ceiling — the picks re-rank as you type. No signup.
| Model | Quality | Per month | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 nano OpenAI | 80 | $3.15 | 25.40 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral | 82 | $3.30 | 24.85 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google | 79 | $3.90 | 20.26 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast xAI | 86 | $6.00 | 14.33 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | 85 | $6.72 | 12.65 |
| Qwen3 235B Alibaba (Qwen) | 84 | $8.58 | 9.79 |
| Llama 4 Maverick Meta | 86 | $9.15 | 9.40 |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | 84 | $12.2 | 6.90 |
Value = quality points per dollar of monthly spend at your volume. Quality scores are benchmark-informed estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before migrating.
Price your own chat & support volume
These rankings use a typical monthly volume. Plug in your real token counts and the free estimator re-ranks every model on cost and quality.
Open the estimatorEmbed the live pick
A self-updating SVG badge of the balanced pick for chat & support. Drop it in a README or blog — it re-renders the day the catalog changes.
Best models for other tasks
Prices are list $/1M tokens, hand-maintained from public provider pricing. Quality scores are benchmark-informed 0-100 estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before moving production traffic. Not affiliated with any model provider. Compare GPT-5.1 vs Mistral Small 3.2