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Apertus 8B Instruct

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Intelligence Score

Intelligence

6

#201 of 203 (top 99%)

Speed

N/A

Not measured

Price

$0.13

per M tokens

#17 cheapest of 136

Context Window

65.5K

tokens

Latency: N/A

Score Breakdown

Quality Score10%
Speed Score0%
Cost Score99%

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Use This Model

Claude Code

claude --model apertus-8b-instruct

API (cURL)

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "apertus-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

Vercel AI SDK

import { generateText } from "ai";
import { openrouter } from "@openrouter/ai-sdk-provider";

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openrouter("apertus-8b-instruct"),
  prompt: "Hello",
});
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