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Swiss AI Initiative · Apertus

Apertus 70B Instruct

Open weightsGenerally availableApache 2.0

Open 70B instruct model from the Swiss AI Initiative, served first-party by the initiative.

AA Intelligence
5.1#139 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.82/ $2.92
Output speed
—
Context window
66K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#139 of 142
    5independentIntelligence Index v4.3; non-reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#78 of 88
    12.9%independenttelecom; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#142 of 142
    27.2%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#118 of 147
    5.5%independentno tools; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#139 of 139
    0%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#139 of 139
    0%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · non-reasoning0%independentArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗
IFBench · non-reasoning25.9%independentArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · non-reasoning-61.5 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗

Specs

Released
September 2, 2025
Parameters
70B
Size class
40 to 100B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
66K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$1.45 / 1M
  • Price: Artificial Analysis: Apertus 70B Instruct ↗ First-party (Swiss AI Initiative) price as listed by Artificial Analysis.

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