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        "http"
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        "inference.open-weights"
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        "hosted",
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        "prepaid"
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          "On 2026-09-10 DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and routed `deepseek-v4-flash` and `deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp` to V4.1 Flash the same day, so callers pinned to those names got a different model without notice (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates)"
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        "verdict": "Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats at per-token prices that halve off-peak. The status feed lists 36 incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, including partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and almost five hours on 15 October.",
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          "Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats",
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          "Weights of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, the model behind `deepseek-flash`, are on Hugging Face under the MIT licence",
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          "36 status incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, with partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and 4 hours 52 minutes on 15 October",
          "Personal data trains models unless you email to opt out, and data is stored in the PRC with no retention period stated",
          "Model names move without a pinnable version. V4 Flash names were rerouted on 10 September 2026, and `deepseek-flash` became the 1017 model on 17 October",
          "A V4 Pro shutdown for 14 September 2026 was announced on 13 August and withdrawn on 10 September",
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          "Send only data you'd be happy to publish",
          "Schedule bulk work off-peak for half price. Peak runs 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, except Chinese public holidays",
          "Set `max_tokens` yourself. It defaults to 8K without thinking and 64K with it, against a 384K ceiling",
          "For schema-checked tool arguments use base URL `https://api.deepseek.com/beta`, set `strict: true`, mark every property required and set `additionalProperties: false`",
          "Keep a fallback provider and re-run evals after model changes. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-flash` and the legacy `deepseek-v4-flash` serve V4.1-Flash-1017 since 17 October 2026"
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        "domain": "deepseek.com",
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        "domainNote": "deepseek.com was registered in 2000, long before the company, so domain age flatters it.",
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        "terms": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html",
        "privacy": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html",
        "statusPage": "https://status.deepseek.com",
        "changelog": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates",
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              "date": "2026-10-11",
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              "date": "2026-10-14",
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          "url": "https://deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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            "url": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html",
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    "answer": "Glimpse scores 48.6 (D) on agent readiness against DeepSeek API's 45.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek API leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Glimpse is Elorian's visual reasoning model, released as a research preview on 16 October 2026. It takes text, images and video and returns text, through Elorian's own API and chat app and through OpenRouter.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json",
      "license": "Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released.",
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        "http"
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      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
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      "pricingNotes": "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter through Together, matching Elorian's published rates (checked 2026-10-17). OpenRouter's top-up fee applies. Elorian says Glimpse can be tried free on its own platform, and volume access is through sales.",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in OpenRouter's docs index or API reference, Elorian's launch post or Elorian's terms, which describe prepaid credits or a subscription (checked 2026-10-17).",
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          "tasks"
        ],
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        "bestFor": "Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.",
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          "Takes text, images and video and returns text, with a 262,144-token context and up to 256,000 output tokens on OpenRouter",
          "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens, published without a login",
          "On OpenRouter it accepts `tools`, `tool_choice`, `response_format`, `structured_outputs` and `reasoning` through the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint",
          "OpenRouter documents Retry-After on 429 and 503, video input as `video_url` and per-key credit limits",
          "Elorian's own benchmark table puts it above GPT-6 Astra on four of twelve visual evaluations, at a fraction of the price. Vendor-reported"
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          "Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian",
          "One provider on OpenRouter (Together, on a dedicated deployment), so there is no fallback if that endpoint goes down",
          "Elorian's terms licence submitted content for training. Paid users opt out by email, and free use trains by default",
          "Elorian's terms forbid using the Service through any agent or automated software other than Elorian's own",
          "The tools the launch post says Glimpse is trained to use (code, image transforms, video watching, subagents) aren't exposed on OpenRouter"
        ],
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          "Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in",
          "Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model",
          "Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over",
          "Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them"
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            ],
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        ],
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          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 38,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 56,
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        },
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\":\"elorian/glimpse\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"How many open pliers are in this photo?\"},{\"type\":\"image_url\",\"image_url\":{\"url\":\"https://example.com/photo.jpg\"}}]}]}'"
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        {
          "item": "Glimpse cached input on OpenRouter",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.06
        },
        {
          "item": "Glimpse output on OpenRouter",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 3,
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      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Elorian AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "elorian.ai",
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        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://platform.elorian.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://elorian.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
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          "The terms, privacy policy and support page name Elorian AI, Inc., 654 High Street, Floor 2, Palo Alto, California, with EDPO as EU and UK representative.",
          "The graded endpoint is OpenRouter's (openrouter.ai), served by Together, so it is not on Elorian's domain. Elorian's own API is api.elorian.ai.",
          "RDAP gives elorian.ai a registration date of 3 December 2025.",
          "elorian.ai/.well-known/security.txt and api.elorian.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404, and platform.elorian.ai's returned 403. elorian.ai and api.elorian.ai have no robots.txt (404), and platform.elorian.ai's robots.txt answers with an S3 AccessDenied error, read as no robots file.",
          "platform.elorian.ai/terms renders in the browser from the platform's public script, and the terms text was read from that script. The same script carries the signed-in console's API docs, which were not used as evidence because Elorian serves them only after sign-in.",
          "No status page or changelog found. status.elorian.ai couldn't be reached from our shell."
        ],
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.json",
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          "samples30d": 24,
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              "date": "2026-10-18",
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            "url": "https://elorian.ai/privacy",
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            "url": "https://platform.elorian.ai/terms",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek API (E)\n\nGood for: Low-cost long-context work on public data, and off-peak batch-style jobs run through the normal API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 38\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 36\n\nWatch for: 36 status incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, with partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and 4 hours 52 minutes on 15 October\n\n### Glimpse (D)\n\nGood for: Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 60 against 49\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 51 against 46\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeepSeek API | Glimpse | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 38 | DeepSeek API +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 60 | Glimpse +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 66 | DeepSeek API +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 56 | Glimpse +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Glimpse +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 51 | Glimpse +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 36 | DeepSeek API +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.8 · E** | **48.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek API | Glimpse |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Elorian |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepseek.com` | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read |  |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek API.** Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats at per-token prices that halve off-peak. The status feed lists 36 incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, including partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and almost five hours on 15 October.\n\n**Glimpse.** Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeepSeek API\n\n1. Send only data you'd be happy to publish\n2. Schedule bulk work off-peak for half price. Peak runs 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, except Chinese public holidays\n3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. It defaults to 8K without thinking and 64K with it, against a 384K ceiling\n4. For schema-checked tool arguments use base URL `https://api.deepseek.com/beta`, set `strict: true`, mark every property required and set `additionalProperties: false`\n5. Keep a fallback provider and re-run evals after model changes. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-flash` and the legacy `deepseek-v4-flash` serve V4.1-Flash-1017 since 17 October 2026\n\n### Glimpse\n\n1. Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in\n2. Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model\n3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them\n4. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over\n5. Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek API or Glimpse?\n\nGlimpse scores 48.6 (D) on agent readiness against DeepSeek API's 45.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek API leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do DeepSeek API and Glimpse need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call DeepSeek API and Glimpse without installing anything?\n\nYes. DeepSeek API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com and Glimpse at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-elorian-glimpse.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-elorian-glimpse.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-api\", \"b\": \"elorian-glimpse\"}`. 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