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Models

Every model on the route, with what it is for and what it costs per million tokens. Each one is named when its supply is under contract, not before.

Index · Liber II · the models on the route12 of 12

Sample rates. Nothing here is on the route yet; every number is replaced by the printed rate the day the supply is under contract.

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ModelContextLanesLatencyInOutCached
IGoogleGemma 4 31Bsmall, quick, oddly good at dialoguetextimagedialoguecheapBF16Gemmaadded Sep 2026256k20.7s$0.10$0.30$0.053
IIQwenQwen 3.6 35Bcheap and never tiredtextimageaudiocheaplongFP8Apache 2.0added Sep 2026256k20.6s$0.12$0.45$0.054
IIIOpenAIGPT-OSS 120Breasoning on a budgettextreasoningcheapMXFP4Apache 2.0added Sep 2026128k21.1s$0.15$0.60$0.065
Retiring15 Oct
IVDeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flashfast, long, cheap; the workhorsetextlongcheapFP8MITadded Sep 20261M30.9s$0.20$0.80$0.076
VMiniMaxMiniMax M3group scenes; many voices at oncetextimagegrouplongFP8MiniMaxadded Sep 20261M21.3s$0.30$1.20$0.107
VIDeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Prothe slower, better onetextprosereasoningFP8MITadded Sep 20261M22.1s$0.42$1.60$0.128
VIIMistralMistral Medium 3French-clean prose, short answerstextimageproseshortFP8proprietaryadded Sep 2026128k11.0s$0.40$2.00$0.109
Retiring30 Sep
VIIIMoonshotKimi K2.6voice; keeps a character's habitstextimagevoicelongFP8Modified MITadded Sep 2026200k21.4s$0.55$2.10$0.1410
IXZ.aiGLM 5.2long prose, steady tonetextimagevideoproselongFP8MITadded Sep 20261M31.7s$1.26$2.20$0.2211
XxAIGrok 5loud; likes a fighttextimageaudiovoicereasoningnativeproprietaryadded Sep 20261M12.0s$2.00$10.00$0.2012
XIMoonshotKimi K3the expensive one, for the scene that matterstextimagevoicereasoningFP8Modified MITadded Sep 20261M23.8s$3.00$15.00$0.2813
XIIAnthropicClaude Sonnet 5the one you reach for when it has to be righttextimageprosereasoningnativeproprietaryadded Sep 20261M12.4s$3.00$15.00$0.3014
Every rate printed is the rate charged. Lanes are how many providers serve it; latency is the last hour's median to first token. Every answer carries a signed receipt.Ars Notoria · MMXXVI