# Blade vs Munito AI
URL: https://docs.munito.ai/compare/blade

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 [#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 [#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 [#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 [#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](https://docs.munito.ai/api/createDecision).

## Sources [#sources]

Blade, checked 2026-10-22: [about](https://blade.sh/about/), [rate card](https://blade.sh/models/pricing/), [dynamic pricing](https://blade.sh/docs/hourly-inference-pricing/), [models](https://console.blade.sh/docs/models.md), [OpenAPI contract](https://console.blade.sh/docs/openapi.yaml), [data handling](https://blade.sh/docs/data-handling/), [professional terms](https://blade.sh/legal/terms/professionals/).

Munito AI: [Pricing](https://docs.munito.ai/models#prices), [Regions](https://docs.munito.ai/regions), [Data privacy](https://docs.munito.ai/data-privacy), [Security](https://docs.munito.ai/security).