Ionstream — pricing & performance
Models served
8
of 1,128 tracked models
Mean output speed
41
tokens per second, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
8 measured endpoints
Mean latency
1.0s
time to first token, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
8 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.17
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
input:output blend
Output speed on Ionstream
Output tokens per second for all 8 models on Ionstream with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.
All 8 of 8 models⇩
The Known Good
8 models on Ionstream
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| Model | Creator | Input $/M | Output $/M | Blended | Speed | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
|
DeepSeek | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.17 | 24 | 1.2s | 1.05M |
|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
|
DeepSeek | $0.21 | $0.42 | $0.26 | 51 | 0.8s | 1.05M |
|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
|
DeepSeek | $1.13 | $2.26 | $1.41 | 35 | 0.8s | 1.05M |
|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
|
DeepSeek | $0.96 | $2.88 | $1.44 | 78 | 1.0s | 1.05M |
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
|
$0.13 | $0.40 | $0.20 | 7 | 1.7s | 262k | |
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next
|
Alibaba | $0.16 | $0.80 | $0.32 | 75 | 0.6s | 262k |
|
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
|
Alibaba | $0.28 | $2.55 | $0.85 | 28 | 0.8s | 262k |
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
|
Z.ai | $1.40 | $4.40 | $2.15 | 30 | 1.2s | 1.05M |
The Known Good
Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Ionstream are ingested from OpenRouter;
model metadata is enriched from models.dev. A blank cell means the figure was not published for that endpoint —
it never means zero. Blended price is (3 × input + output) ÷ 4, the same 3:1 blend used everywhere on this
site; see methodology. Quality scores are not provider-specific:
a model scores the same wherever it is hosted, so quality lives on the
model pages.