Model comparison
Poolside Laguna S 2.1 (free) vs GPT-5
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Poolside Laguna S 2.1 (free)
Not scored
value score
GPT-5
94
value score
Poolside Laguna S 2.1 (free) ctx
—
GPT-5 ctx
400K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- GPT-594
Attribute tape
| Field | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 (free) | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | poolside | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image, Audio | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | Mid-High |
| Value score | — | 94 |
| Summary | Laguna S 2.1 is Poolside's open-weight, 118B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model with up to 1M-token context, designed for agentic software engineering tasks including code generation, bug fixing, and long-horizon codebase work. The free tier is hosted via OpenRouter. | OpenAI frontier multimodal model. |