As of August 30, 2026, MiniCPM-SALA is 73% cheaper per million tokens than North Micro Vision Instruct. MiniCPM-SALA is $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens versus North Micro Vision Instruct at $0.15 / $0.60. Sources: https://www.openbmb.cn/ and https://cohere.com/pricing
Sources: OpenBMB pricing (https://www.openbmb.cn/); Cohere pricing (https://cohere.com/pricing)
MiniCPM-SALA
OpenBMB
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.10
North Micro Vision Instruct
Cohere
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.60
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MiniCPM-SALANorth Micro Vision InstructVerdict
MiniCPM-SALA offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 30, 2026, MiniCPM-SALA is 73% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. MiniCPM-SALA costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens ($0.20 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). North Micro Vision Instruct costs $0.15 / $0.60 per million tokens ($0.75 blended). Sources: https://www.openbmb.cn/ and https://cohere.com/pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
MiniCPM-SALA OpenBMB API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.10 output per million tokens via OpenBMB. North Micro Vision Instruct Cohere API pricing is $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens via Cohere. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
MiniCPM-SALA has a published HumanEval score of 95.1%. North Micro Vision Instruct does not have that eval on this page yet.
MiniCPM-SALA supports a 33K token context window, while North Micro Vision Instruct supports 128K tokens. North Micro Vision Instruct offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
MiniCPM-SALA leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks versus North Micro Vision Instruct's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both MiniCPM-SALA and North Micro Vision Instruct are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, MiniCPM-SALA has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call MiniCPM-SALA through OpenBMB and North Micro Vision Instruct through Cohere with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published OpenBMB API pricing and Cohere API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://www.openbmb.cn/ and https://cohere.com/pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
MiniCPM-SALA supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while North Micro Vision Instruct supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither MiniCPM-SALA nor North Micro Vision Instruct has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open MiniCPM-SALA or North Micro Vision Instruct from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. MiniCPM-SALA costs $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output. North Micro Vision Instruct costs $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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