AI Models · Paid vs Paid

o1 Paid vs SCSummarize Paid

o1 vs Summarize 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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o1PaidOpenAI

$15 /M input
$60 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)

TypeProprietary

Context window200K tokens

MultimodalYes

Self-hostNo

SCSummarizePaidScaledown

$0.04 /M input
Free /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)

TypeProprietary

Context window1M tokens

MultimodalYes

Self-hostNo

Choose Summarize for the lower output price (Free/M vs $60/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

o1 vs Summarize specs

Spec	o1	Summarize	Winner
Maker	OpenAI	Scaledown	–
Type	Proprietary	Proprietary	–
Context window	200K tokens	1M tokens	SCSummarize
Input price	$15/M	$0.04/M	SCSummarize
Output price	$60/M	Free/M	SCSummarize
Vision / multimodal	Yes	Yes	= Tie
Tool / function calling	Yes	No	o1
Self-hostable	No (API only)	No (API only)	–
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	–

Price gap & when to choose each

Choose o1 if…

You want frontier performance through a managed API
You value reliability & ecosystem
You don't want to manage infrastructure

SCChoose Summarize if…

You want frontier performance through a managed API
You need the longer 1M context window
You want the lower output price
You value reliability & ecosystem
You don't want to manage infrastructure

Feature comparison

Capability	o1	Summarize
Open weights (downloadable)	✗	✗
Self-hostable	✗	✗
Runs fully offline	✗	✗
Vision / multimodal	✓	✓
Tool / function calling	✓	✗
1M+ context window	✗	✓

Benchmarks: o1 vs Summarize

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

Summarize

Intelligence index

15.2

–

Coding index

39.7

–

GPQA

74.7%

–

MMLU-Pro

84.1%

–

Humanity's Last Exam

–

Long Context Reasoning

65%

–

LiveCodeBench

67.9%

–

MATH-500

97%

–

AIME

72.3%

–

IFBench

70.3%

–

τ²-Bench

62.6%

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Terminal-Bench Hard

12.9%

–

Speed

0 tok/s

–

Latency

–

Intelligence per $

0.6

–

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How o1 and Summarize score

🏆 Best value & openness: Summarize (3.2 vs 2.7 / 5)

Criterion	o1	Summarize
Cost-efficiency	2.0	5.0
Context window	4.0	5.0
Openness	1.5	1.5
Self-hosting	1.0	1.0
Multimodality	5.0	3.5

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.

What each model is

o1 Paid

OpenAI · Proprietary

The latest and strongest model family from OpenAI, o1 is designed to spend more time thinking before responding. The o1 model series is trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to reason...

Summarize Paid

Scaledown · Proprietary

Summarize is an abstractive summarization model from ScaleDown. It condenses long text and documents into a fluent, faithful rewrite rather than lifting sentences from the source, and is suited for...

Frequently asked questions

o1 vs Summarize — which is cheaper?

Summarize is cheaper on output (Free/M vs $60/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Summarize offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

o1 vs Summarize — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Summarize for the lower output price (Free/M vs $60/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

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