Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1

perceptron · Released May 12, 2026
DFO score #364 / 697
12.7 leaderboard score
Speed
7 tok/s · best OpenRouter provider
Input Price #303 / 697
$0.150 per 1M tokens
Output Price #435 / 697
$1.50 per 1M tokens
Context #513 / 697
32,768 tokens

Analysis Summary

Perceptron Mk1 is a multimodal model listed with image and video input, a 32K-token context window, and relatively low pricing. These features may make it worth exploring for workflows that need visual input without a premium per-request cost. No benchmark results or tool-use capabilities are supplied, leaving its reasoning quality, coding performance, and integration potential unclear.

For business use, the most plausible evaluation area is supervised analysis of image or video content. Teams should test it on their own visual material and check factual accuracy, instruction adherence, and consistency across varied inputs. The context window is shorter than those of several long-document models in this batch, so it is less suited to extensive document or codebase work.

Keep Perceptron Mk1 in the evaluation stage until it demonstrates measurable quality on a clearly defined multimodal task. Its listed price is favorable, but low cost alone is not enough to establish production readiness.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Perceptron Mk1 lists image and video input at low pricing, but benchmark results and tool support are not provided to establish its suitability for production work.

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DFO Verdict

Perceptron Mk1 lists image and video input at low pricing, but benchmark results and tool support are not provided to establish its suitability for production work.

#364 of 697 overall Down 2 this week

How Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 compares

Its 33K-token context window is larger than 26% of the models we list. At $0.15 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 57% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 48% of models #360
Price: cheaper than 57% of models #303
Context: larger than 26% of models #513
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 $0.15 in $1.50 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.15 $0.000150
Output $1.50 $0.001500

What would Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$2.00/mo Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 $0.0007 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$15.84/mo Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · best value $0.0053 per request

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About Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1

Perceptron Mk1 (Mark One) is Perceptron's highest-quality vision-language model for video and embodied reasoning.** It accepts image and video inputs paired with natural language queries, and produces detailed visual understanding..

Frequently asked questions about Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1

How much does Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 cost?

Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1?

Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 has a context window of 32,768 tokens (33K).

What can Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 do?

Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 supports image/vision input.

Who created Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1?

Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 is developed by Perceptron and was released on May 12, 2026.

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