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Glimpse benchmarks, pricing and specs
Glimpse is an Elorian model released on October 16, 2026 that takes text, image and video input and produces text. It costs $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens.
- Per 1M input tokens
- $0.60Listed today
- Per 1M output tokens
- $3Listed today
Data verified October 29, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-29
Specs
Key facts
- Provider
- Elorian
- Model family
- Glimpse
- Release date
- October 16, 2026
- Status
- Current
- Access
- API only
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- Not reported
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text, image, video
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text, multimodal
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning, image understanding, video understanding, chart understanding, temporal reasoning
Charts
Against every current text model
Where Glimpse lands among the current models of its task, on every independent benchmark, on price and on context.
Where it stands
16 of 52 list a lower price per 1M input tokens. Each bar is the share of current models it beats.
Price and context
Price per 1M input tokens
#17of 52
$0.60 · cheaper than 69%
Price per 1M output tokens
#19of 52
$3 · cheaper than 63%
Benchmarks
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Elorian's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Glimpse yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Fit
Strengths, cautions and best uses
- Strengths
- A visual thinking model that reasons about the physical world from images and video, released as a research preview through Elorian's API and chat
- Elorian reports 92.90 on CharXiv-R chart reasoning, 82.66 on UGC-VideoCap captioning and 83.36 on FSC-147 counting, ahead of GPT-6 Astra on all three
- $0.60 input and $3 output per 1M tokens, which Elorian puts 94% below GPT-6 Astra
- Cautions
- In Elorian's own table GPT-6 Astra scores higher on six of the twelve evaluations, including TOMATO temporal reasoning and Video-MME v2
- Post-trained on an open-weights base model Elorian does not name; it publishes no context window or output limit, and no independent benchmark score is recorded here yet
- Best for
- Visual question answering over charts, scenes and short videos
- Counting and captioning at a lower price than frontier multimodal models
From benchmark to production
Building on Glimpse?
Public scores rarely hold on your own data. We test it against the alternatives on your real tasks, then build the agent or pipeline around the model that wins.
Alternatives
Alternatives to Glimpse
The closest current text models by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
On score and price
Glimpse beside the 4 alternatives listed below, on Arena Text and on blended price per 1M tokens.
Arena Text
Measured October 8, 2026, higher is better
- Glimpse
- Not scored
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview
- 1,473
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
- 1,486
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- 1,480
- GPT-4.1 mini
- 1,383
Blended price per 1M tokens
Listed today, lower is better
- Glimpse
- $1.20
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview
- $1.13
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
- $1.50
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- $0.544
- GPT-4.1 mini
- $0.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
- 17% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.50 vs $0.60
- From Google
Gemini 3.7 Flash
- 25% more per 1M input tokens, $0.75 vs $0.60
- From Google
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- 28% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.435 vs $0.60
- From Xiaomi MiMo
GPT-4.1 mini
- 33% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.40 vs $0.60
- From OpenAI
Further reading
More on Glimpse
FAQ
Glimpse FAQ
How much does Glimpse cost?
Glimpse costs $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens at the standard tier. It is the #17 cheapest of 52 current text models priced per 1M input tokens. Source: Elorian, verified October 29, 2026.
Is Glimpse open source or API only?
Glimpse is available through Elorian's API only; its weights are not published.
What are the best alternatives to Glimpse?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are Gemini 3 Flash Preview (17% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.50 vs $0.60), Gemini 3.7 Flash (25% more per 1M input tokens, $0.75 vs $0.60), MiMo-V2.6-Pro (28% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.435 vs $0.60) and GPT-4.1 mini (33% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.40 vs $0.60).
Sources
Sources
- Introducing Glimpse: visual thinking that stays grounded · Elorian · official · verified October 29, 2026
- Elorian models · Elorian · official · verified October 29, 2026
All 221 sources behind the benchmarks, with their versions, licenses and notes, are in the source catalog.
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Glimpse Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-29. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/glimpse
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Production evaluation
Deciding whether Glimpse fits your workload?
Public benchmarks narrow the shortlist. We test the finalists on your own tasks, data and cost limits, then build the routing and review controls to run the winner in production.
- Evaluation cases and acceptance thresholds tied to real work
- Model routing, fallbacks and cost controls