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Apertus 8B Instruct

SwissAI · 8B

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#44 of 272), weakest in Harm refusal (#200 of 299). Above par in 3 of 6 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude 3 Opus and ahead of Gemma 4 26B A4B and Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instruct.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety50.3−11.2#174/3361/3

Toxicity avoidance57.4−1.6#44/2721/1

Secure code54.7−11.8#120/2741/1

Fairness48−22#142/2991/2

Jailbreak resistance48.8−16.1#186/2721/1

Harm refusal47.5−14.1#200/2991/2

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Apertus 8B Instruct, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 6 · lost 0

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 6 · lost 0

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba Mini 1.7won 6 · lost 0

Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Zephyr 7B Betawon 6 · lost 0

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 6 · lost 0

Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 0

Magistral Mediumwon 6 · lost 0

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen3 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

DBRX Instructwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 2won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 7B Itwon 5 · lost 1

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 5 · lost 1

PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Grok 4won 5 · lost 1

Grok 3won 5 · lost 1

Magistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1

Aya 23 8Bwon 5 · lost 1

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Grok Build 0.1won 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 5 · lost 1

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 1

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 700Mwon 5 · lost 1

Command R Pluswon 5 · lost 1

Command Awon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Large 1.7won 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Ling 3.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 1

Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-5.2won 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 5 · lost 1

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-4.6won 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek V3won 5 · lost 1

LFM2 1.2Bwon 5 · lost 1

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek V3p1won 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 5 · lost 1

QwQ 32Bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 1won 5 · lost 1

Mistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 5 · lost 1

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 1

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 4 · lost 2

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 2B Itwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 4 · lost 2

Command R7Bwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 2 9B Itwon 4 · lost 2

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 2

Open Codestral Mambawon 4 · lost 2

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 4 · lost 2

Aya 23 35Bwon 4 · lost 2

MiniMax M3won 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2.6won 4 · lost 2

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 2

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2.5won 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 4 · lost 2

Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3.2won 4 · lost 2

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 4 12Bwon 4 · lost 2

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Fuguwon 4 · lost 2

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 4 31Bwon 4 · lost 2

Starling Lm 7B Betawon 4 · lost 2

Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 4 · lost 2

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 2

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 3 · lost 3

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 3 · lost 3

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Komodo 7B Basewon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 2 2B Itwon 3 · lost 3

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 3 · lost 3

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 3 · lost 3

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

DeepSeek Chatwon 3 · lost 3

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 3 12B Itwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Mistral Largewon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 3 · lost 3

Nova Prowon 3 · lost 3

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 3 · lost 3

Nova Microwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 3 · lost 3

Nova Litewon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 3 · lost 3

GPT OSS 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 2 · lost 4

GLM-5 Turbowon 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 30Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 2 · lost 4

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2won 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 2 · lost 4

Apertus 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 2 · lost 4

Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 2 · lost 4

K2 Chatwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 2 · lost 4

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4o Miniwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 2 · lost 4

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen Maxwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4won 2 · lost 4

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 2 · lost 4

C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS 120Bwon 2 · lost 4

Titan Text Express V1won 2 · lost 4

Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 105Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 2 · lost 4

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 2 · lost 4

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 4

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 2 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4.6won 1 · lost 3

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3 Haikuwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 1 · lost 5

SeaLLM 7B V2won 1 · lost 5

GPT-6 Solwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 5

GLM-5.1won 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 5

O4 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 1 · lost 5

C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 1 · lost 5

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Fugu Ultra V2won 1 · lost 5

Nova Premierwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4owon 1 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Haiku 4.5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-4.1won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 5

O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4 Turbowon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 5

O3won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 5

O1won 1 · lost 5

Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 5

Phi 4won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Nanowon 1 · lost 5

Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.8won 1 · lost 5

Inklingwon 1 · lost 5

Grok 4.7won 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 5

Hy3won 1 · lost 5

MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 5

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Qwen2 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 0 · lost 6

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Gemma 2 27B Itwon 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 6

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 6

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

1 publication, 6 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

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