BaseTen — pricing & performance
Models served
7
of 947 tracked models
Mean output speed
118
tokens per second, averaged over
6 measured endpoints
6 measured endpoints
Mean latency
1.6s
time to first token, averaged over
6 measured endpoints
6 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.20
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
input:output blend
Output speed on BaseTen
Median output tokens per second for the 6 of 7 models on BaseTen with published throughput telemetry from OpenRouter. The full table below lists all 7, measured or not. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.
All 6 of 6 models⇩
The Known Good
7 models on BaseTen
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| Model | Creator | Input $/M | Output $/M | Blended | Speed | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
|
DeepSeek | $1.74 | $3.48 | $2.17 | 110 | 0.7s | 262k |
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
|
Moonshot AI | $0.95 | $4.00 | $1.71 | 127 | 3.8s | 262k |
|
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
|
Moonshot AI | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 27 | 2.6s | 1.05M |
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
|
NVIDIA | $0.60 | $2.40 | $1.05 | — | — | 203k |
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
|
OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.20 | 171 | 0.3s | 128k |
| TM Thinking Machines: Inkling | Thinking Machines | $1.00 | $4.05 | $1.76 | 124 | 0.5s | 1.05M |
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
|
Z.ai | $1.40 | $4.40 | $2.15 | 150 | 1.7s | 524k |
The Known Good
Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for BaseTen 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.