Perceptron Mk1 pricing and routing profile
Perceptron Mk1 from Perceptron lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, with a 32,768-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
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Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.105 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.90 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.95 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Perceptron Mk1. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Perceptron Mk1 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.10 / $1.10 | 29% |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | $0.12 / $0.80 | 38% |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.117 / $0.455 | 54% |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | $0.14 / $0.28 | 56% |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | $0.104 / $0.416 | 58% |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | $0.075 / $0.50 | 61% |
Questions
How much does Perceptron Mk1 cost?
Perceptron Mk1 lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.90 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Perceptron Mk1?
32,768 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Perceptron Mk1?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Perceptron Mk1 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.