Model profile
Swiss AI Initiative

Apertus 70B Instruct

Apertus 70B Instruct is a budget-priced text-first model from Swiss AI Initiative with partial runtime data, partial context coverage, and the clearest fit around agent workflows / reasoning.

Best for: Agent workflows / ReasoningN/A latencyN/A contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
7.7

Benchmark blend

Coding
1.9

Dev workflow signal

Context
N/A

N/A

Input Price
$0.82

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
25

Apertus 70B Instruct currently reads as a budget text-first option with partially published context and a partially published runtime profile.

Overall profile
Use-case specific
Best for
Agent workflows / Reasoning
Latency tier
N/A
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterArtificial Analysis

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
7.7
8

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Limited
Speed
N/A
N/A

Latency data is partial.

Unavailable
Context
N/A
N/A

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Unavailable
Price
$0.82
86

$2.92 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Apertus 70B Instruct in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Use-case specificCoding score 2Math score N/A

The Apertus 70B Instruct AI model by Swiss AI Initiative.

Identity

Swiss AI Initiative text-first profile

Positioning

Agent workflows / Reasoning with partially published context and partially published runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • The available source data suggests a balanced profile rather than one dominant edge.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

  • Context limits are only partially published, so long-session planning needs extra validation.

Best fit
  • Focused chat, retrieval-augmented flows, and narrower production tasks.

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Intelligence
5.9
Context
N/A
Input Price
$0.10

Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
7.7
GPQA
27.2%
HLE
5.5%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

Coding Index
1.9
SciCode
5.7%
Agent / tool use

Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.

IFBench
25.9%
TAU2
12.9%
TerminalBench Hard
0.0%
LCR
0.0%

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
N/A
Vision
Text-first
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.82
Output
per 1M output tokens
$2.92
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
$1.34

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.