Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)

poolside · Released Apr 28, 2026
Intelligence #673 / 699
9.5 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price
Not priced
Output Price
Not priced
Context #195 / 714
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Poolside Laguna M.1 is a free text-to-text model offering a 262K-token context window, tool use, and function calling. The available configuration is relevant to simple assistants, document workflows, and experiments that require external actions without a token cost.

Its main business advantage is accessibility for prototyping and low-risk internal automation. The exact variant has no benchmark data in the supplied record, leaving its reasoning, coding, instruction-following, and multi-step agent performance untested. That uncertainty is important for an agency, because tool availability alone does not demonstrate dependable execution. Use it for sandbox evaluations, prompt experiments, and tightly bounded tasks with human review. A stronger benchmarked model should handle client-facing content, coding, and autonomous operations until Laguna M.1 has evidence from representative tests.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Laguna M.1 is a free text model with a 262K-token context, tool use, and function calling. No benchmark data is available for this variant, so production reliability and capability remain unverified.

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DFO Verdict

Laguna M.1 is a free text model with a 262K-token context, tool use, and function calling. No benchmark data is available for this variant, so production reliability and capability remain unverified.

#673 of 699 overall

How Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) compares

Its 262K-token context window is larger than 73% of the models we list. Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 4% of models #673
Context: larger than 73% of models #195
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) $0.00 in $0.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out

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

Context window vs peers · tokens
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) 262K

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

Intelligence0Technical0Value0Content4.2
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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About Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)

Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from Poolside, optimized for complex software engineering tasks. Designed for agentic coding workflows, it supports tool calling and reasoning, with a 256K..

Frequently asked questions about Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)

How much does Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) cost?

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.

What is the context window of Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)?

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).

What can Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) do?

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)?

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) is developed by Poolside and was released on April 28, 2026.

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