poolside/laguna-s-2.1 vs poolside/laguna-xs-2.1
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 is cheaper: $18.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $27.00 for poolside/laguna-s-2.1 at OpenRouter — 1.5× the cost.
Cheapest on each
poolside/laguna-s-2.1
$27.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.09 in, $0.18 out per million
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1
$18.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.06 in, $0.12 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | poolside/laguna-s-2.1 | poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Accepts | Aa | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.09 / M | $0.06 / M |
| Cached input rate | $0.009 / M | $0.03 / M |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | poolside/laguna-s-2.1 /mo | poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $27.002026-10-27 | $18.002026-10-27 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.