How much does Perceptron Mk1.5 cost per million tokens?

Perceptron Mk1.5 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Perceptron Mk1.5?

Perceptron Mk1.5 accepts up to 36,864 tokens of context and returns up to 8,192 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Perceptron Mk1.5?

About $0.90, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Perceptron Mk1.5?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Perceptron API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Perceptron sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Perceptron · live price

Perceptron Mk1.5 API pricing

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,...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningimage inputvideo inputaudio input

Input: $0.15; per 1M tokens
Output: $1.50; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 37K; 8K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Perceptron's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released September 25, 2026. Model id perceptron/perceptron-mk1.5.

What Perceptron Mk1.5 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.90

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.95

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.75

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Perceptron Mk1.5 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Perceptron Mk1.5 price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Perceptron$0.15 in · $1.50 out · 37K ctx · 89.5% uptime 24h

Where to buy Perceptron credits for less

Perceptron Mk1.5 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Perceptron Mk1.5 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.15 in / $1.50 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$22.50/ month(quotes below are for $23.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Perceptron Mk1.5

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.15	$0.5	$0.237	1.0M

Other Perceptron models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Perceptron Mk1	$0.15	$1.50	$0.487	33K

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