EssentialAI LLM API Models & Pricing

Browse EssentialAI LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.

1Models tracked
1Priced models
1Popular models
0Latest releases

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Cost pick Rnj 1 Instruct $0.22 sample workload
Context pick Rnj 1 Instruct 32.77K context window
Popular pick Rnj 1 Instruct #278 popularity signal
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AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
🔥Owl AlphaOpenRouter$0$0$01.05M
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI$0$0$0131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
Rnj 1 Instruct$0.15$0.1532.77K#278