Ember-1 vs Pareto 26.10 Preview compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.
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Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai
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| Spec | Ember-1 | Pareto 26.10 Preview | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | Fireworks | Unbiased | – |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | = Tie |
| Input price | $3/M | $0.8/M | UNPareto 26.10 Preview |
| Output price | $15/M | $3.2/M | UNPareto 26.10 Preview |
| Vision / multimodal | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Tool / function calling | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Self-hostable | No (API only) | No (API only) | – |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
Pareto 26.10 Preview is ~4.7× cheaper than Ember-1 on output tokens ($3.2 vs $15 per M tokens).
| Capability | Ember-1 | Pareto 26.10 Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Open weights (downloadable) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-hostable | ✗ | ✗ |
| Runs fully offline | ✗ | ✗ |
| Vision / multimodal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool / function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1M+ context window | ✓ | ✓ |
| Criterion | Ember-1 | Pareto 26.10 Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Cost-efficiency | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Context window | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Openness | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Self-hosting | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Multimodality | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.
Ember-1 is a specialized reasoning model from Fireworks Research, built on [Kimi K3](https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3). It is designed to make every token go further: it produces shorter reasoning traces, using roughly 40%...
Pareto is a multimodal composite model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. This is a preview of the...
Pareto 26.10 Preview is cheaper on output ($3.2/M vs $15/M).
Ember-1 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).
Choose Pareto 26.10 Preview for the lower output price ($3.2/M vs $15/M). Choose Ember-1 if you need the larger 1M context window.
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