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UnslopNemo 12B: pricing, context and benchmarks
UnslopNemo 12B is a language model from TheDrummer released on November 8, 2024. It costs $0.4 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
What you need to know about UnslopNemo 12B
UnslopNemo 12B was released by TheDrummer on November 8, 2024. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 1,024,000 tokens, larger than 78 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 819,200 tokens in one go.
Released more than 1 year ago, it belongs to a generation most vendors have since superseded.
UnslopNemo 12B pricing
On OpenRouter, UnslopNemo 12B costs $0.4 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $0.4 per million, more expensive than 34 % of paid models (1.9 times cheaper than the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.001. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $30 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for UnslopNemo 12B. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
- It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
- Its knowledge stops at April 2024.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face: you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party.
Other TheDrummer models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cydonia 24B V4.1 | Sep 27, 2025 | $0.35 | — |
| Skyfall 36B V2 | Mar 10, 2025 | $0.61 | — |
Verdict
UnslopNemo 12B scores 65/100 on our grid, which only uses published figures.
Strengths
- Very large context (1M tokens): long documents or a whole codebase fit in one request.
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
Limitations
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Older generation, often replaced by a newer model from the same vendor.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- you are building an agent that must call tools.
Alternatives
- Qwen3 Coder Flash$0.39
- Qwen-Plus$0.39
- Qwen3.6 Flash$0.42
- MiniMax-01$0.43
- GLM 5.3$0.41
- Qwen3.7 Plus$0.56
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does UnslopNemo 12B cost?
$0.4 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.001.
How big is UnslopNemo 12B's context window?
1,024,000 tokens, roughly 768,000 words, with a maximum of 819,200 output tokens.
Can UnslopNemo 12B run locally?
Yes, its weights are published.
Is UnslopNemo 12B suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to UnslopNemo 12B?
The closest models on price and performance are Qwen3 Coder Flash, Qwen-Plus, and Qwen3.6 Flash.
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