Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-09-08
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 260,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 65,536
- Providers
- 3 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.040–$0.275 in · $0.15–$1.03 out per 1M tokens · across all 3 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-09-10
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-11-01
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.04 in / $0.15 out per 1M tokens at Inception on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Heads up: prices are indicative list rates scraped from provider pricing pages; verify with the provider before relying on them. Report incorrect data for this model