Writer: Palmyra X5

writer · Released Jan 21, 2026
DFO score #273 / 713
14.7 leaderboard score
Speed
68 tok/s · best OpenRouter provider
Input Price #483 / 713
$0.600 per 1M tokens
Output Price #580 / 713
$6.00 per 1M tokens
Context #101 / 713
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Writer’s Palmyra X5 is a text-to-text model with a 1.04M context window, the standout capability in the supplied data. Its listed input and output prices are 0.6 and 6. No benchmark results, tool-use support, or multimodal features are specified, so the model’s reasoning, writing quality, and production reliability cannot be established from this record.

The context size could make it a candidate for testing on very long documents or large collections of text. However, a large window is not evidence of accurate retrieval or reliable synthesis across that material. The absence of measured instruction-following and reasoning results also makes it difficult to assess suitability for polished client deliverables.

Evaluate it against representative long-document tasks before adoption. If it does not deliver clear quality gains, the relatively higher listed output price favors routing routine content work elsewhere.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Palmyra X5 offers a 1.04M context window for long text inputs, but the supplied data has no benchmarks, modality beyond text, or stated tool-use capabilities.

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DFO Verdict

Palmyra X5 offers a 1.04M context window for long text inputs, but the supplied data has no benchmarks, modality beyond text, or stated tool-use capabilities.

#273 of 713 overall Down 10 this week

How Writer: Palmyra X5 compares

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $0.60 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 32% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 63% of models #264
Price: cheaper than 32% of models #483
Context: larger than 86% of models #101
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Writer: Palmyra X5 $0.60 in $6.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $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 $0.60 $0.000600
Output $6.00 $0.006000

What would Writer: Palmyra X5 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

$7.99/mo Writer: Palmyra X5 $0.0027 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$7.92/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) · best value $0.0026 per request

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We route routine calls to cheap models and save Writer: Palmyra X5 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Writer: Palmyra X5

Palmyra X5 is Writer's most advanced model, purpose-built for building and scaling AI agents across the enterprise. It delivers industry-leading speed and efficiency on context windows up to 1 million..

Frequently asked questions about Writer: Palmyra X5

How much does Writer: Palmyra X5 cost?

Writer: Palmyra X5 costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Writer: Palmyra X5?

Writer: Palmyra X5 has a context window of 1,040,000 tokens (1M).

Who created Writer: Palmyra X5?

Writer: Palmyra X5 is developed by Writer and was released on January 21, 2026.

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