Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 API Pricing
Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 costs $0.150 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 37K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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Higher effort = deeper thinking = more reasoning tokens billed as output.
What would Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $7.20 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $21.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $40.50 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $9.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5
Perceptron Mk1.5 is Perceptron's embodied reasoning model for physical agents. It accepts text, image, video, and audio input, and answers with text plus optional structured annotations: points, boxes, polygons, tracks,...
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 cost?
Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 costs $0.150 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
37K tokens, with up to 8K output tokens per response. That's roughly 46 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Prompt-caching pricing is not published for this model via OpenRouter.
What's a cheaper alternative?
ScaleDown: Summarize saves about 95% on a typical workload with comparable quality.
Official resources
- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5 on OpenRouter — live endpoint, pricing source of record.
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