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Poolside: Laguna S 2.1

Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 is a budget-priced text-first model from Poolside with partial runtime data, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research.

Best for: Long-context researchN/A latencyLarge contextBudget pricing
Coding modelsAgentic models
Intelligence
N/A

Benchmark blend

Coding
N/A

Dev workflow signal

Context
1049K Tokens

Large

Input Price
$0.09

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
93

Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 currently reads as a budget text-first option with large context and a partially published runtime profile.

Overall profile
Flagship profile
Best for
Long-context research
Latency tier
N/A
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouter
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Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
N/A
N/A

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Unavailable
Speed
N/A
N/A

Latency data is partial.

Unavailable
Context
1049K Tokens
100

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Above average
Price
$0.09
86

$0.18 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Flagship profileCoding score N/AMath score N/A

Laguna S 2.1 is the latest coding agent model from [Poolside](<https://poolside.ai/>). Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter model with 8B active parameters, scoring 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and...

Identity

Poolside text-first profile

Positioning

Long-context research with large context and partially published runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths

  • Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.

Tradeoffs

  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

Best fit

  • Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.

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Intelligence
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Context
262K Tokens
Input Price
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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

No benchmark data is available for this model yet.

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
1049K Tokens
Vision
Text-first
Modalities
text
Tokenizer
Other
Max Completion
131072
Moderation
No
Supported Parameters
include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningtemperaturetool_choicetools
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.09
Output
per 1M output tokens
$0.18
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
N/A

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

OR Cache Read
$0.00

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.