Perceptron Mk1.5 API Pricing
perceptron · Budget · released 2026-09. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-26.
Perceptron Mk1.5 is the 125th cheapest of 144 Budget models on blended price. Only one host, Perceptron, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 37K
Perceptron Mk1.5 market position
On blended price ($1.09 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 13% of Budget models: 125th cheapest of 144, tied with one other. Across every category it is cheaper than 55% of priced text models in the catalogue: 125th cheapest of 281, tied with one other.
- Next cheaper Budget model: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B (Baidu) at $1.00 blended, 9% less.
- Next more expensive: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) at $1.12 blended, 3% more.
Perceptron Mk1.5 licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for Perceptron Mk1.5, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Audio, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 37K context window once costs $0.0055 in input tokens at list price.
Cost per 1,000 requests by business use case
List price vs after discounts (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates). The monthly budget runs from the after-discounts figure, which assumes you implement both, to the list-price one.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost / 1K req (list price) | Cost / 1K req (after discounts) | Monthly @100K req (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.98 | — | $98 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $1.50 | — | $150 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $3.30 | — | $330 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $3.08 | — | $308 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $3.45 | — | $345 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $1.13 | — | $112 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $1.35 | — | $135 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $5.40 | — | $540 |
Perceptron Mk1.5 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-26 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Perceptron is the only host with a published rate, $0.15 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Perceptron (the price shown above) | $0.15 | $1.50 |
Common questions about Perceptron Mk1.5 pricing
- How much does Perceptron Mk1.5 cost?
- Perceptron Mk1.5 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Perceptron Mk1.5 offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Perceptron Mk1.5 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Perceptron Mk1.5 costs about $98 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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