CoreWeave: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price

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This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by CoreWeave for your use-case.

Most Intelligent

#1
GLM-5.3-FlashGLM-5.3-Flash
42
#2
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)
39
#3
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
34
#4
GLM-5.2 (max)GLM-5.2 (max)
34
#5
Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) (FP8)Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) (FP8)
34

Intelligence Index

Total 30 models

Fastest

#1
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (NVFP4)Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (NVFP4)
478 t/s
#2
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
387 t/s
#3
Nemotron 3 UltraNemotron 3 Ultra
381 t/s
#4
GLM-5.2 (max)GLM-5.2 (max)
327 t/s
#5
Beam 1.0 (NVFP4)Beam 1.0 (NVFP4)
303 t/s

Output speed

Total 30 models

Lowest Price

#1
gpt-oss-20b (low)gpt-oss-20b (low)
$0.04
#2
gpt-oss-20b (high)gpt-oss-20b (high)
$0.04
#3
gpt-oss-120b (high)gpt-oss-120b (high)
$0.04
#4
gpt-oss-120b (low)gpt-oss-120b (low)
$0.04
#5
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
$0.06

Blended price (per 1M tokens)

Total 30 models

CoreWeave offers 30 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across models.

  • For intelligence, the top models on CoreWeave are GLM-5.3-Flash (42), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (39), and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) (34).
  • For output speed, the fastest models are Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (NVFP4) (478 t/s), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16) (387 t/s), and Nemotron 3 Ultra (381 t/s). Speed varies significantly across models, with a 58% difference between the fastest and slowest.
  • For latency, Llama 3.1 8B (0.66s), Gemma 4 26B A4B (non-reasoning) (0.76s), and Llama 3.3 70B (0.82s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
  • For pricing, gpt-oss-20b (low) ($0.04), gpt-oss-20b (high) ($0.04), and gpt-oss-120b (high) ($0.04) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
  • For context window size, Beam 1.0 (NVFP4) (1M), GLM-5.3-Flash (1M), and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (1M) support the largest context windows on CoreWeave.
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
Output tokens per second · Higher is better
USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

Intelligence Evaluations

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic SaaS workflows

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Reasoning & knowledge

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Agentic coding & terminal use

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

Agentic business operations

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Medical long context reasoning

Visual reasoning

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Context Window

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

Pricing

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Performance Summary

Output Speed vs. Price

Output speed: output tokens per second · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time

Cache Behaviour

Cache Hit Rate

Share of cacheable input tokens served from cache · Median of the last four weeks, updated Sep 26, 2026

Cost per Task vs. Cache Hit Rate

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Cache hit rate: median of the last four weeks, updated Sep 26, 2026
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time vs. Price

End-to-end response time: end-to-end seconds to output 500 tokens · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Further Analysis
Z AI logo
GLM-5.3-Flash
1M
Open
42
$0.65
271
1.18
10.42
7.39
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)
1M
Open
39
$1.03
224
0.88
12.05
8.94
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
262k
Open
34
$0.42
114
1.56
23.48
17.54
Z AI logo
GLM-5.2 (max)
262k
Open
34
$0.70
327
1.07
8.72
6.12
Alibaba logo
Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) (FP8)
262k
Open
34
$0.92
67
1.71
38.97
29.81
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Pro (max)
1M
Open
30
$2.00
130
1.29
38.92
33.77
MiniMax logo
MiniMax-M3 (NVFP4)
262k
Open
29
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122
1.24
21.66
16.33
Z AI logo
GLM-5 (FP8)
200k
Open
28*
--
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--
--
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Kimi logo
Kimi K2.6
262k
Open
27
$1.11
134
1.09
38.04
33.22
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (NVFP4)
1M
Open
26
$0.24
456
1.17
6.66
4.39
Kimi logo
Kimi K2.7 Code
262k
Open
26
$0.83
205
1.08
14.40
10.88
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (non-reasoning)
1M
Open
25
$0.70
251
0.91
2.90
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Kimi logo
Kimi K2.6 (non-reasoning)
262k
Open
24*
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87
1.11
6.86
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NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3 Ultra
262k
Open
23
$0.51
381
0.93
8.21
5.97
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Pro (non-reasoning)
1M
Open
21*
--
132
1.44
5.24
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (FP8)
262k
Open
18
$0.31
167
0.98
36.20
32.23
Google logo
Gemma 4 26B A4B
262k
Open
17*
--
72
0.66
35.17
27.61
Alibaba logo
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (non-reasoning) (FP8)
262k
Open
15*
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170
1.01
3.95
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Google logo
Gemma 4 31B
262k
Open
15
$0.07
58
2.00
40.74
30.08
Google logo
Gemma 4 31B (non-reasoning)
262k
Open
14*
--
40
1.97
14.34
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V3.1 (non-reasoning)
128k
Open
14*
--
94
1.11
6.44
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Google logo
Gemma 4 26B A4B (non-reasoning)
262k
Open
13*
--
78
0.76
7.20
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NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
262k
Open
13
$0.07
394
0.57
6.92
5.08
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-120b (high)
131k
Open
12
$0.02
54
1.21
47.42
36.97
IBM logo
Granite 4.2 8B
131k
Open
11
$0.05
88
0.72
29.07
22.68
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-120b (low)
131k
Open
10*
--
49
1.21
52.65
41.15
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-20b (low)
131k
Open
10*
--
171
0.56
15.18
11.70
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-20b (high)
131k
Open
9
$0.01
170
0.55
15.27
11.78
Meta logo
Llama 3.3 70B
128k
Open
8*
--
93
0.82
6.20
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Meta logo
Llama 3.1 8B
128k
Open
7*
--
142
0.66
4.18
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Key definitions

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about CoreWeave