PoolsideLaguna S 2.1
Laguna S 2.1 is a Poolside open-weights reasoning model, released 21 Jul 2026. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $0.113 per million tokens blended it is among the cheapest fifth of ranked models. Output speed of 93 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first token in 0.5 s.
- Blended price
- $0.113/M
- $0.090 in · $0.180 out
- Output speed
- 93 tok/s
- OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 0.46 s
- Context
- 1.0M
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 21 Jul 2026
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poolside | 106 tok/s | 0.41 s | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M | fp4 |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0001 | – | 3.7 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0012 | – | 6.9 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0008 | – | 16.6 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.0061 | – | 43.5 s |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0002 | – | 2.6 s |
More from Poolside
See also
Questions people ask
- Why does Laguna S 2.1 have no BenchLeader Index score?
- The index needs at least five independent results across at least two categories; as of 25 Oct 2026 Laguna S 2.1 has 0 that count. Launch-post scores are never used, so it is ranked once independent publishers have measured it.
- How much does Laguna S 2.1 cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, Laguna S 2.1 costs $0.090 per 1M input tokens and $0.180 per 1M output tokens, $0.113 blended (three input tokens per output token).
- When was Laguna S 2.1 released?
- Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on 21 Jul 2026.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Laguna S 2.1: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/laguna-s-2-1.