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# Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) — free route, unrated · Undominated.ai

> Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) is listed as a free route in this catalogue. No independent quality score. Unrated is not zero.

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# Laguna XS 2.1 (free)

Poolside · 02 Jul 2026

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **Free** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Lifecycle: retirement date · 31 Oct 2026

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 262.14K
 Maximum output 32.77K
 Input modalities text
 Output modalities text
 Published input price Free / 1M tokens
 Published output price Free / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. See [free routes](/free/) and [OpenRouter or direct](/openrouter-vs-direct/).

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | free /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | free /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |

**Retirement scheduled for 2026-10-31.** Do not start new work on it.

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Laguna XS 2.1 is the latest coding agent model in the 33B-A3B category from [Poolside](https://poolside.ai/) and a step forward from their Laguna XS.2 model (released in April 2026). It combines...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Laguna XS 2.1 (free) cost?

free/M in, free/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Laguna XS 2.1 (free) have an independent quality score?

Laguna XS 2.1 (free) has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 What beats Laguna XS 2.1 (free)?

Laguna XS 2.1 (free) has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Laguna XS 2.1 (free)?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Does a missing score mean Laguna XS 2.1 (free) scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

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## Related

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