unbiased Pareto 26.9 vs Writer Palmyra X5
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Palmyra X5 is 1.9× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Palmyra X5 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
- Palmyra X5's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 84.7%.
- Pareto 26.9 is the newer model (released 2026-10-13).
| Pareto 26.9 | Palmyra X5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | unbiased | Writer |
| Released | 2026-10-13 | 2026-01-21 |
| Input / 1M | $2.50 | $0.60 |
| Output / 1M | $7.50 | $6.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.25 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $3.75 | $1.95 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 131K | 8K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $7.50 | $6.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 84.7% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Pareto 26.9
$263 per month$8.75 per day
Palmyra X5
$126 per month$4.20 per day
Palmyra X5 saves $137 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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