Poolside vs Magic.dev
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Magic.dev
Coding-model research lab; nothing released yet
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Unknown |
| Free tier | Laguna S 2.1 and XS 2.1 weights free on Hugging Face (OpenMDW-1.1; older XS.2 and M.1 Apache 2.0), free OpenRouter endpoints, Poolside API free for a limited time | — |
| Paid from | From $0.06 per 1M input tokens on OpenRouter, with Poolside's own API free for a limited time | No product on sale, no price, API or waitlist published (Oct 2026) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Poolside has become one of the more interesting open-weight coding labs. Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B mixture-of-experts model with 8B active parameters and a one-million-token context, its weights are downloadable under OpenM... |
Magic pursues ultra-long context, with LTM-2-mini trained on up to 100 million tokens, and by its own account compute-efficient pretraining, aimed at automating software engineering. The research write-ups are substantiv... |
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