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Sail Research — pricing & performance

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Models served
9
of 1,191 tracked models
Mean output speed
51
tokens per second, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
Mean latency
1.3s
time to first token, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.11
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
Output speed on Sail Research

Output tokens per second for the 8 of 9 models on Sail Research with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. The full table below lists all 9, measured or not. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.

All 8 of 8 models⇩
113
85
52
43
37
32
27
22
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Model Creator Input $/M Output $/M Blended Speed TTFT Context
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek $0.090 $0.18 $0.11 22 0.8s 1.05M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek $0.019 $0.42 $0.12 32 2.2s 1.05M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 DeepSeek $0.40 $4.30 $1.38 113 1.1s 1.05M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek $0.080 $0.40 $0.16 43 1.4s 1.05M
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI $1.00 $4.00 $1.75 27 0.6s 262k
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 Moonshot AI $0.84 $13.50 $4.00 — — 1.05M
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Z.ai $0.50 $3.15 $1.16 37 1.3s 1.05M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Z.ai $0.20 $3.40 $1.00 85 0.9s 1.05M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai $0.045 $0.60 $0.18 52 2.4s 1.05M
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Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Sail Research 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.