Summarize API pricing
scaledown · Budget price tier · released 2026-10. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Promotional rate. The price we quote is 20% off ScaleDown's standard $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens, and a promotion can end without notice.
Summarize shares the lowest price we track in the Budget price tier with one other model, and its list price has not moved since 2026-10-13. Only one host, ScaleDown, 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: $0.04 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 1M tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.012 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is the cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier, tied with one other. Across every price tier it is the cheapest of 308 priced text models in the catalogue, tied with one other.
Licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for Summarize, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.04 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token: the model maker, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent host. One model, several hosts, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price we quote elsewhere on this page is marked. We quote one host's rate so that models stay comparable; it is not a recommendation to buy there.
ScaleDown is the only host with a published rate, $0.04 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| ScaleDown (price we quote) | $0.04 | $0.00 |
List prices as published on 2026-10-22, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. ScaleDown's listing is a promotional rate: 20% off its standard rate.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where scaledown publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $6 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $8 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $40 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $10 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $12 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $6 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $8 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $24 |
Price history
Summarize entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-13; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.04 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-13. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
Alternatives to Summarize
- Next more expensive: Mistral Nemo (Mistral) at $0.0297 blended, 147% more.
Other models from scaledown
scaledown has 1 other model in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Extract: $0.04 / $0.00
Common questions about Summarize pricing
- How much does Summarize cost?
- Summarize costs $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens at ScaleDown, the host whose rate we quote. Prices as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Which host is cheapest for Summarize?
- ScaleDown is the only host with a published rate, $0.04 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Summarize offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Summarize as of 2026-10-22.
- What would Summarize cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $6 on Summarize at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Summarize be self-hosted?
- No licence is recorded for Summarize, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted.
- Has the price of Summarize changed?
- Summarize entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-13; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.04 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-13. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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