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Laguna M.1

by Poolside · poolside/laguna-m.1 · #74 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from [Poolside](https://poolside.ai/), optimized for complex software engineering tasks. Designed for agentic coding workflows, it supports tool calling and reasoning, with a 256K...

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Pricing

Input

$0.20

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.40

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.25

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.10

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Laguna M.1 with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.25$0.0208
50%$0.212$0.0158−24%
90%$0.182$0.0118−43%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.00022$0.22
Document summary8,0001,000$0.002$2.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.0068$6.80
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.032$32.00

Specs

Context window

262K

tokens

Max output

33K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Other