Elorian: Glimpse API Pricing
Elorian: Glimpse costs $0.600 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.060). Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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Token economics
| Token type | Price | vs base input |
|---|---|---|
| Standard input | $0.600 | — |
| Cache read | $0.060 | −90% |
| Output | $3.00 | — |
Prompt caching stores repeated context server-side: reads cost far less, but writes carry a one-time premium.
Higher effort = deeper thinking = more reasoning tokens billed as output.
What would Elorian: Glimpse cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $16.80 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $54.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $117.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $30.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Elorian: Glimpse
Glimpse is a multimodal visual reasoning model from Elorian, built for visual understanding and complex visual reasoning in the physical world. It reasons directly over images and video rather than...
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Elorian: Glimpse cost?
Elorian: Glimpse costs $0.600 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens; cached input tokens cost $0.060 per 1M. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
262K tokens, with up to 256K output tokens per response. That's roughly 328 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Yes — cached input is $0.060/1M, about 90% cheaper than standard input. Agents and RAG workloads with repeated context benefit most.
What's a cheaper alternative?
ScaleDown: Summarize saves about 98% on a typical workload with comparable quality.
Official resources
- Elorian: Glimpse on OpenRouter — live endpoint, pricing source of record.
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