scaledown/extract vs unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, scaledown/extract is cheaper: $8.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $320.00 for unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview at OpenRouter — 40.0× the cost.
Cheapest on each
scaledown/extract
$8.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.04 in, $0 out per million
unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview
$320.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.8 in, $3.2 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | scaledown/extract | unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Accepts | Aa · IMG · FILE | Aa · IMG |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.04 / M | $0.8 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | $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 | scaledown/extract /mo | unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $8.002026-10-27 | $320.002026-10-15 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.