Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1
Perceptron Mk1 (Mark One) is Perceptron's highest-quality vision-language model for video and embodied reasoning.** It accepts image and video inputs paired with natural language queries, and produces detailed visual understanding...
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Verdict
Best for
- High-volume multimodal processing on budget
- Video frame analysis at scale
- Cost-sensitive image captioning
- Prototyping vision features before scaling
- Batch jobs where latency isn't critical
Strengths
The standout is pricing: $0.15 per million input tokens undercuts most competitors by 3-5x, making this viable for batch jobs that would bankrupt you elsewhere. Native video support is rare at this price tier — most budget models stop at images. The 32K context window handles typical documents, code files, and multi-image prompts without chunking. Multimodal capability means you can throw screenshots, diagrams, or video clips at it without switching models mid-workflow.
Trade-offs
No public benchmarks means you're flying blind on accuracy relative to Claude, GPT-4o, or Gemini. The 32K context ceiling blocks serious long-document analysis — you'll hit limits around page 20 of a dense PDF. Output pricing at $1.50/Mtok is 10x the input rate, so verbose responses get expensive fast. Early-stage models often lag on reasoning depth and instruction-following compared to established players. Expect to iterate on prompts more than you would with a top-tier model.
Specifications
- Provider
- perceptron
- Category
- llm
- Context length
- 32,768 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Modalities
- text, image, video
- License
- proprietary
- Released
- 2026-05-12
Pricing
- Input
- $0.15/Mtok
- Output
- $1.50/Mtok
- Model ID
perceptron/perceptron-mk1
Per-token prices show what the model costs upstream. On Switchy your team draws from one shared org credit pool — one plan, one balance for everyone.
Team cost calculator
5 seats · 80 msgs/day
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Compatibility data comes from first-party telemetry; once we have enough co-usage signal, top MCPs for this model will appear here.
How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
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