Ember 1 API Pricing
Ember 1 costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens on US (Other)'s API. Prices are provider list prices in USD, refreshed as sources update; see the Ember 1 model profile for capability scores.
Price List
| Rate | Price (USD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $15.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended input + output | $18.00 | 1M in + 1M out at list price |
| Context window | 1.05M tokens |
What a Workload Costs
Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Ember 1.
| Workload | Cost | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | $0.011 | 1K in / 500 out |
| Summarize a long document | $0.330 | 100K in / 2K out |
| Agentic coding session | $3.00 | 500K in / 100K out |
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $18.00 | 1M in / 1M out |
Effective Cost
In AI IQ's scoring, Ember 1's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 0.844, giving an effective cost of $15.20 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #110 of 135 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.
Cheaper Alternatives at Similar Capability
Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Ember 1, or better.
| Model | Provider | IQ | Effective Cost / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-6-sol | OpenAI | 139 | $13.85 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 132 | $8.40 | |
| gemini-3.7-flash | 128 | $6.40 | |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta | 128 | $8.59 |
| grok-4.6 | xAI | 127 | $8.85 |
| GLM-5.3 | Z.ai | 127 | $13.39 |