Elephant-9B is Baseten's language model with a 16K context window, starting at $0.035 / 1M input. A decision-making LLM in the Elephant series, sized at 9B parameters for lightweight automated reasoning tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDbaseten-elephant-9b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorBaseten
Providers
Context Window16K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters9B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Baseten
baseten/decision-models/baseten-elephant-9b-latest
$0.035

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Elephant-9B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 22 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hr
7 more instances can run Elephant-9B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Elephant-116K$0.035—Available
Elephant-9B—16K$0.035—Current

Model IDs

baseten-elephant-9b
baseten/decision-models/baseten-elephant-9b-latest