MDL
Apertus 8B Instruct
Swiss AI Initiative
Verified against Artificial Analysis · Jul 13, 2026
Capability
23
percentile index
Price /M
$0.1 / $0.2
in / out
Context
—
Avg score
9.8
7 benchmarks
AA Intelligence
1.0
index
Weights
Closed
Released
Sep 2, 2025
About
Apertus 8B Instruct is a proprietary model in the Apertus family from Swiss AI Initiative. Benchmarked on 7 evals, averaging 9.8.
Benchmark scores · 7
avg 9.8 — higher is betterThe research behind this model
all papers mentioning it →Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and QuantizationMay 27, 2026Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM PretrainingMay 13, 2026
Mentions matched by name in title/abstract — from the arXiv + HF daily corpus.
Performance & price
Price in / out$0.1 / $0.2 per 1M
Blended price$0.125 / 1M
Median across API providers, via Artificial Analysis. Blended = 3:1 input:output. For reasoning models, latency includes thinking time. Methodology →
History
full ledger →Capability over time
Append-only ledger — every observed change to this model's numbers.
API providers
Artificial Analysis$0.2/M