Blade and Munito AI side by side for open models in Europe: regions, APIs, OCR, decision models and prices.
Choose Blade for the lowest list prices on small models in the EU, when a price that changes each hour is fine. Choose Munito AI for larger open models, fixed prices, an Anthropic-compatible API, OCR of PDFs by the page, or decision models.
Checked on 2026-10-22, prices on 2026-10-23. Blade prices change each hour, so check them at the source.
At a glance
| Munito AI | Blade | |
|---|---|---|
| Regions | EU, US or global | EU only |
| Prompts kept | No | No |
| API formats | OpenAI and Anthropic | OpenAI |
| OCR | PDFs and images, per page | Images, with no published price |
| Decision models | Yes | No |
| Prices | Fixed | Change each hour with GPU demand |
| Largest model | DeepSeek-V4-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash | 60B parameters |
Prices in the EU
Standard prices per million tokens, input / output. Munito AI in USD, Blade in EUR: its lowest and highest hourly price.
| Model | Munito AI | Blade, lowest | Blade, highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B | $0.20 / $2.70 | €0.182 / €2.44 | €0.21 / €2.76 |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | $0.11 / $0.28 | Not offered | Not offered |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | $0.27 / $1.00, global host | Not offered | Not offered |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.15 / $0.50 | Not offered | Not offered |
Where Blade is stronger
- Lower list prices for small models, such as Gemma 4 26B and gpt-oss-20b.
- Its own GPU fleet: Shadow, the company behind Blade, runs more than 12,000 GPUs.
- More kinds of models: embeddings, speech, image and video generation, and built-in web search.
Where Munito AI is stronger
- Larger open models: DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash.
- Fixed posted prices that do not change with the hour.
- The Anthropic Messages API, EU or US processing, and OCR of PDFs billed per page.
- Decision models: pplx-decider-v1.2 and Cygnet answer yes or no, choice and score questions through the Decisions API.
Sources
Blade, checked 2026-10-22: about, rate card, dynamic pricing, models, OpenAPI contract, data handling, professional terms.
Munito AI: Pricing, Regions, Data privacy, Security.