Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)

dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free

Dots3-Note Preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Dots Studio, with 16B active parameters out of 280B total. It is the lightest model in the Dots 3 family and is...

Modalities

In / out price

Free / Free per 1M

Context

512K

Released

Aug 14, 2026

Why use Dots3-Note Preview (free)

Understands images
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	Free / 1M tokens
Output	Free / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)	$0	$0	$0

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)

512,000 tokens ≈ 770 pages

Fits: uses 23% of the window (room for 4× this much).

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