Apertus 8B Instruct
by Swiss AIChat
Fully open 8B multilingual LLM supporting 1800+ languages with 65K context. Trained on compliant open data. Apache 2.0, EU AI Act compliant.
- Context
- 65.5K tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Released
- 2025-09-02
- Weights
- Open
swiss-ai/apertus-8b · also seen as publicai/apertus-8b-instruct
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-09-02
- Weights
- Open
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 65,536 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 8,192
- Providers
- 0 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.10 in at LLMTR, via gateway, fees not verified
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-09-02
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-09
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured outputunknown
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
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