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Providers· Inference host· 6 tracked models

Poolside — pricing & performance

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Models served
6
of 1,094 tracked models
Mean output speed
65
tokens per second, averaged over
6 measured endpoints
Mean latency
1.2s
time to first token, averaged over
6 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.000
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
Output speed on Poolside

Output tokens per second for all 6 models on Poolside with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.

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Model Creator Input $/M Output $/M Blended Speed TTFT Context
Poolside: Laguna M.1 poolside $0.20 $0.40 $0.25 78 0.9s 262k
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) poolside $0.000 $0.000 $0.000 9 3.3s 262k
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 poolside $0.090 $0.18 $0.11 74 0.6s 1.05M
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) poolside $0.000 $0.000 $0.000 35 1.8s 262k
Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 poolside $0.060 $0.12 $0.075 106 0.2s 262k
Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) poolside $0.000 $0.000 $0.000 90 0.5s 262k
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Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Poolside 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.