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Laguna S 2.1

by Poolside · poolside/laguna-s-2.1 · #36 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Laguna S 2.1 is the latest coding agent model from [Poolside](<https://poolside.ai/>). Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter model with 8B active parameters, scoring 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and...

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Pricing

Input

$0.10

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.20

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.125

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.01

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Laguna S 2.1 with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.125$0.0104
50%$0.091$0.0059−43%
90%$0.064$0.0023−78%

*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$0.00011$0.11
Document summary8,0001,000$0.001$1.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.0034$3.40
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.016$16.00

Specs

Context window

1.05M

tokens

Max output

131K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Other