Baseten reveals $0.035 and $0.10 input prices for elephant-1 and mammoth-1
Baseten filled in Model API input pricing for two Base Labs models added on Oct 22: elephant-1 now lists $0.035 per 1M input tokens and mammoth-1 lists $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Buyers evaluating Baseten's Model API catalog should expect that a newly added model may launch before its input pricing is final; here the rates filled in after seven days. The low input price on elephant-1 places it at the budget end of Baseten's catalog. Watch whether Baseten reveals output pricing for both models next, and whether the $0.035 rate holds as usage picks up.
BY THE NUMBERS
- elephant-1 input revealed at $0.035 per 1M tokens, mammoth-1 at $0.10
- Both models added Oct 22, 2026 with pricing TBD; filled in 7 days later
- Baseten's first price-reveal event in 9 tracked pricing changes since Jul 2026
- 7 pricing changes in the last 90 days; average gap about 12 days
THEIR RATIONALE
Baseten shipped elephant-1 and mammoth-1 to the Model APIs catalog on Oct 22 with pricing marked TBD, then filled in input rates seven days later - in line with its typical cadence of a pricing-page change roughly every 12 days. The gap suggests Baseten made the models available for testing before finalizing per-token input rates, rather than holding the catalog entry back until pricing was settled.
THE SIGNAL
At $0.035 and $0.10 per 1M input tokens, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 undercut nearly everything else Baseten has added to Model APIs recently: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at $0.30, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at $0.20, and Reflection Beam, now $0.40 after a 72% cut. This is also the first price-revealed event in Baseten's nine tracked pricing changes - every other model it has added shipped with a set input rate on day one, making the TBD-then-reveal pattern new for this page.
IN CONTEXT
Baseten added elephant-1 and mammoth-1 on Oct 22 with pricing marked TBD (its previous change), then filled in input rates seven days later. It has made nine real changes since tracking began in July, averaging one every twelve days. Every other recent model add shipped priced from day one: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at $0.30, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at $0.20, and Kimi K3 at $3.00, while Reflection Beam was cut 72% to $0.40 on Oct 21. At $0.035 and $0.10 per 1M tokens, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 now have the lowest input rates on Baseten's Model APIs page.