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Start with DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and Laguna XS 2.1, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

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DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus vs Laguna XS 2.1

Live dataset updated 9/9/2026, 8:46:14 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and Laguna XS 2.1
Field
ModelCap position#62#61
Index score54.054.1
EvidenceMeasured3 public benchmark observations across 3 boardsEstimated3 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (30%); global-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (70%); shrunk 1.4 toward the measured corpus
Input / 1M$0.27$0.06
Output / 1M$1.00$0.12
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context164K262K
Providers41
Weight accessOpen weightsRestricted license

Decision facts

  • DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is #62; Laguna XS 2.1 is #61 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 54.0 for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and 54.1 for Laguna XS 2.1. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Evidence differs: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is Measured; Laguna XS 2.1 is Estimated.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $1.00 for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and $0.12 for Laguna XS 2.1. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $1.04 for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus versus $0.18 for Laguna XS 2.1. Laguna XS 2.1 costs 82.7% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 163,840 tokens for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and 262,144 for Laguna XS 2.1.
  • Weight access differs: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is open; Laguna XS 2.1 is restricted.
  • ModelCap currently lists 4 providers for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and 1 for Laguna XS 2.1.

These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.

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