Palmyra X5 pricing and routing profile
Palmyra X5 from Writer lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens, with a 1,040,000-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.42 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $3.60 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $7.80 |
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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 Palmyra X5. 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 Palmyra X5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | $0.55 / $3.50 | 31% |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | $0.40 / $4.00 | 33% |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | $0.252 / $4.20 | 39% |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.42 / $3.00 | 43% |
| Qwen3.6 27B | $0.32 / $3.20 | 47% |
| R1 0528 | $0.50 / $2.15 | 48% |
Questions
How much does Palmyra X5 cost?
Palmyra X5 lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $6.00 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 $3.60 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Palmyra X5?
1,040,000 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Palmyra X5?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Palmyra X5 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.