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Model Pareto

Apertus 70B Instruct

Swiss AI Initiative (Apertus)Open weightsartificialanalysis.ai ↗
Input
$0.82/M tok
Output
$2.92/M tok
Blended
$1.345/M tok · 3:1
Speed
~75tok/sest.
Context
66Ktokens

Long-tail import from Artificial Analysis (2026-09-24); AA variant: Apertus 70B Instruct. Price = AA median host price.

Rankings

Self-hostingEstimated

How we estimate →

What it would cost to run these open weights yourself on rented GPUs, compared with the API price above.

Hardware
1× B200 180GB
FP8 weights
Throughput
~2,313 tok/s
many requests batched
Price
$0.35–3.12 /M tok
busy → light use
On your own machine
Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB (int4, ~12 tok/s single-stream)
single consumer GPU or Mac
Assumptions (5)
  • FP8 weights (70.6B params) + 25% KV-cache headroom ≈ 88 GB
  • 1× B200 180GB at $5.98–$14.24/GPU-hour on-demand (2026-09-24)
  • ~2,313 output tok/s aggregate at batch 66 (bandwidth-bound)
  • Blended 3:1 input:output; prefill ~15,058 tok/s
  • Low = 75% utilization at the low GPU price; high = 20% at the high price

Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

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Hard reasoning

Agents

~#11 of 12 (estimated)~62.1%
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. #10Muse Glimmer65.9%
  4. ~#11Apertus 70B InstructEstimated62.1%
  5. #11Claude Haiku 4.550.7%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld 2.0Estimated
~#3 of 5 (estimated)~53.8%
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. #2Kimi K358.3%
  3. ~#3Apertus 70B InstructEstimated53.8%
  4. #3GPT-5.6 Terra50.2%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
BrowseCompEstimated
~#17 of 18 (estimated)~31.0%
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra91.5%
  3. #16Nemotron 3 Ultra44.4%
  4. ~#17Apertus 70B InstructEstimated31.0%
  5. #17Mistral Small 421.3%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
~#56 of 87 (estimated)~690 Elo
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51846
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11735
  3. #55MiniCPM5-2B694
  4. ~#56Apertus 70B InstructEstimated690
  5. #56Nemotron 3.5 Lightning624
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
~last of 89 (estimated)below measured range (<3.3%)
  1. #1Muse Spark 1.350.5%
  2. #2GLM-5.350.3%
  3. #88Llama 4 Scout3.3%
  4. ~#89Apertus 70B InstructEstimated<3.3%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks