Rocinante 12B
TheDrummer Rocinante 12B — pricing, 33k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By TheDrummer
Specs
- Provider
- TheDrummer
- Slug
- thedrummer/rocinante-12b
- Capabilities
- tools, json_mode
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking Rocinante 12B pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call Rocinante 12B from your app
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "thedrummer/rocinante-12b",
"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="thedrummer/rocinante-12b",
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: "thedrummer/rocinante-12b",
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 Rocinante 12B?
Rocinante 12B is a large language model API from TheDrummer with a 33k-token context window. It costs $0.17 per 1M input tokens and $0.43 per 1M output tokens.
How much does Rocinante 12B cost?
Rocinante 12B is priced at $0.17 per 1M input tokens and $0.43 per 1M output tokens via the TheDrummer API. A 50/50 input/output workload of 1M total tokens costs about $0.3.
What is the context window of Rocinante 12B?
Rocinante 12B supports up to 33k tokens of context per request — roughly 66 pages of English text or 4096 lines of code at a typical density.
Does Rocinante 12B support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
Rocinante 12B supports tool/function calling and structured JSON mode. It does not support image input (vision).
Who makes Rocinante 12B?
Rocinante 12B is built and operated by TheDrummer. Pricing, context window, and capabilities on this page are refreshed nightly from TheDrummer's public catalog.
Can I self-host Rocinante 12B?
Rocinante 12B is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by TheDrummer, so it cannot be self-hosted today.