Baseten lists Base Labs' elephant-1 and mammoth-1 with no prices yet
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
Published
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What changed
Baseten added two models, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 from Base Labs, to the top of its Model APIs catalog. Both rows carry a Try Model API button, but the Input, Cache Input and Output columns show a dash where a price would be. The diff records only these two additions; no existing rate is flagged as changed.
Why it matters
For buyers comparing inference providers, an unpriced model cannot be budgeted, so these two rows are a stub until the dashes turn into rates. The thing to watch is whether Baseten fills in the Input, Cache Input and Output columns on its next capture, and whether the rates land near the $0.40 input it just set for Reflection Beam or closer to the pricier GLM rows. A long gap between listing and pricing would make this a pattern worth tracking.
In context
Baseten has been adding to its catalog every few days: the Reflection Beam rate cut on Oct 21 came a day before this listing, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on Oct 18 and Reflection Beam and Meta Muse Spark Open on Oct 17 landed just before that. Those launches carried prices, such as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at $0.30 input and $1.20 output per 1M tokens, while elephant-1 and mammoth-1 do not. Peers usually list new models with rates attached, as fal did with its FLUX 3 Max video model at $0.085/sec on Oct 20. The next capture will show whether Baseten fills in the rates.