reka-flash-3 vs Saba
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
mistralai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.20
Output / 1M
$0.60
AA index
6.5
proprietary · 32.8K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | reka-flash-3 | Saba |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 20.9 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 32,768 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 901 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 23 K | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-03-11 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.10 | $0.20 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.20 | $0.60 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.30 | $0.80 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.02 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 58,982 | 26,214 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | No | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
reka-flash-3
$0.30
Saba
$0.80
reka-flash-3 is 2.7× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
reka-flash-3 · fp16
49.6 GB / 24 GB