Public AI: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price

This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by Public AI for your use-case.
Most Intelligent
Intelligence Index
Total 1 model
Fastest
Output speed
Total 1 model
Lowest Price
Blended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 1 model
Public AI currently offers Apertus 8B Instruct.
Intelligence Evaluations
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, Elo
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Physics reasoning
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Agentic real-world work tasks, Elo
Agentic interactive 3D experiences, Elo
Product and brand videos designed in code, Elo
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
Visual reasoning
Rich, varied, well-crafted language
Well-structured, scannable, answer-first
Truthful, acknowledges uncertainty, non-sycophantic
Use of filler and generic language
Intelligence Index vs. Price
Context Window
Context Window
Pricing
Intelligence Index vs. Price
Performance Summary
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Token
Cache Behaviour
Cache Hit Rate
Cost per Task vs. Cache Hit Rate
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
Key definitions
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Public AI
Public AI offers 1 model that we track: Apertus 8B Instruct.
The fastest model on Public AI by output speed is Apertus 8B Instruct at 148.2 tokens per second.
The model with the lowest time to first answer token on Public AI is Apertus 8B Instruct at 3.10s. Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable model on Public AI by blended price is Apertus 8B Instruct at $0.11 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Yes, Public AI offers an OpenAI-compatible API, making it easy to switch from OpenAI or use existing OpenAI SDK integrations.
Yes, all 1 models on Public AI support JSON mode for structured output.
Yes, all 1 models on Public AI support function calling (tool use).
Yes, all 1 models on Public AI are open weight models.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
When choosing a model on Public AI, consider: intelligence (for quality-sensitive tasks), output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and features like context window size, JSON mode, or function calling support.