Swiss AI Initiative
Apertus 8B Instruct
Fully open 8B multilingual LLM supporting 1800+ languages with 65K context. Trained on compliant open data. Apache 2.0, EU AI Act compliant.
Model facts
- Context window
- 66K tokens
- Maximum output
- 8K tokens
- Cheapest paid input
- $0.1 per 1M tokens
- Cheapest paid output
- $0.2 per 1M tokens
- Open weights
- yes
- Providers
- 1
Capabilities and modalities
tool calling, temperature control, open weights, text.
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
Compare this model on the full LLM benchmark leaderboard.
| Configuration | AAI | Coding | Math | Output tokens/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| default | 1.0 | not measured | not measured | not measured |
Observed price history
- 2026-08-24: $0.1 input / $0.2 output per 1M tokens
API providers
- LLMTR — model id publicai/apertus-8b-instruct; $0.1 input / $0.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation