Spotlight
Arcee AI Spotlight — pricing, 131k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By Arcee AI
Specs
- Provider
- Arcee AI
- Slug
- arcee-ai/spotlight
- Capabilities
- vision
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking Spotlight pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call Spotlight from your app
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "arcee-ai/spotlight",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="arcee-ai/spotlight",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
// npm install openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "arcee-ai/spotlight",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
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Frequently asked questions
What is Spotlight?
Spotlight is a large language model API from Arcee AI with a 131k-token context window. It costs $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens.
How much does Spotlight cost?
Spotlight is priced at $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens via the Arcee AI API. A 50/50 input/output workload of 1M total tokens costs about $0.18.
What is the context window of Spotlight?
Spotlight supports up to 131k tokens of context per request — roughly 262 pages of English text or 16384 lines of code at a typical density.
Does Spotlight support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
Spotlight supports image input (vision). It does not support tool/function calling and structured JSON mode.
Who makes Spotlight?
Spotlight is built and operated by Arcee AI. Pricing, context window, and capabilities on this page are refreshed nightly from Arcee AI's public catalog.
Can I self-host Spotlight?
Spotlight is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by Arcee AI, so it cannot be self-hosted today.