Ember-1 Cuts Kimi K3 Token Costs
Fireworks Research’s first model, Ember-1, is a Kimi K3-based reasoning model trained to produce comparable answers with roughly 40% fewer tokens. It is available as a Serverless research preview, with enterprise training support for custom workloads.
Ember-1 targets the real bottleneck in agentic AI: reasoning cost, not just model quality.
- –Shorter reasoning traces could significantly reduce expenses in long-running coding and tool-use agents.
- –Fireworks reports comparable quality across seven benchmarks, customer A/B tests, and internal coding workloads.
- –The model supports a 1M-token context window, function calling, and image input, broadening its production use cases.
- –Research-preview status and company-run evaluations mean developers should validate quality and reliability on their own workloads.
- –Serverless pricing is listed at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
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