Small & Fast Sao10K Models

Quick answer · Updated June 2026

The small, fast Sao10K model is Llama 3 8B Lunaris — the efficient tier at 74 tokens/sec and $0.040 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.

74 t/sSpeed

$0.040Input /M

8KContext

Compact, efficient models — the small/mini/flash/haiku tier — ranked by output speed. These trade a little raw intelligence for low cost and high throughput, which is the right tradeoff for chat, classification, extraction and other high-volume work.

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JSON$0.040/M · 133ms ttft · 8K ctx
74 t/s
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modelgrep tracks 4 Sao10K models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing. 1 of them qualify for this ranking.

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