Compare the Top AI Coding Models for Cloud as of August 2026 - Page 6

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    Code Llama
    Code Llama is a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on code tasks, and has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ChatGPT Enterprise
    Enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet. 1. Customer prompts or data are not used for training models 2. Data encryption at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+) 3. SOC 2 compliant 4. Dedicated admin console and easy bulk member management 5. SSO and Domain Verification 6. Analytics dashboard to understand usage 7. Unlimited, high-speed access to GPT-4 and Advanced Data Analysis* 8. 32k token context windows for 4X longer inputs and memory 9. Shareable chat templates for your company to collaborate
    Starting Price: $60/user/month
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    GPT-5

    GPT-5

    OpenAI

    GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, delivering smarter, faster, and more useful responses across a wide range of topics including math, science, finance, and law. It features built-in thinking capabilities that allow it to provide expert-level answers and perform complex reasoning. GPT-5 can handle long context lengths and generate detailed outputs, making it ideal for coding, research, and creative writing. The model includes a ‘verbosity’ parameter for customizable response length and improved personality control. It integrates with business tools like Google Drive and SharePoint to provide context-aware answers while respecting security permissions. Available to everyone, GPT-5 empowers users to collaborate with an AI assistant that feels like a knowledgeable colleague.
    Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens
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    OpenAI o3
    OpenAI o3 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities by breaking down complex instructions into smaller, more manageable steps. It offers significant improvements over previous AI iterations, excelling in coding tasks, competitive programming, and achieving high scores in mathematics and science benchmarks. Available for widespread use, OpenAI o3 supports advanced AI-driven problem-solving and decision-making processes. The model incorporates deliberative alignment techniques to ensure its responses align with established safety and ethical guidelines, making it a powerful tool for developers, researchers, and enterprises seeking sophisticated AI solutions.
    Starting Price: $2 per 1 million tokens
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    Yi-Large
    Yi-Large is a proprietary large language model developed by 01.AI, offering a 32k context length with both input and output costs at $2 per million tokens. It stands out with its advanced capabilities in natural language processing, common-sense reasoning, and multilingual support, performing on par with leading models like GPT-4 and Claude3 in various benchmarks. Yi-Large is designed for tasks requiring complex inference, prediction, and language understanding, making it suitable for applications like knowledge search, data classification, and creating human-like chatbots. Its architecture is based on a decoder-only transformer with enhancements such as pre-normalization and Group Query Attention, and it has been trained on a vast, high-quality multilingual dataset. This model's versatility and cost-efficiency make it a strong contender in the AI market, particularly for enterprises aiming to deploy AI solutions globally.
    Starting Price: $0.19 per 1M input token
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    Grok 3 mini

    Grok 3 mini

    SpaceXAI

    Grok-3 Mini, crafted by xAI, is an agile and insightful AI companion tailored for users who need quick, yet thorough answers to their questions. This smaller version maintains the essence of the Grok series, offering an external, often humorous perspective on human affairs with a focus on efficiency. Designed for those on the move or with limited resources, Grok-3 Mini delivers the same level of curiosity and helpfulness in a more compact form. It's adept at handling a broad spectrum of questions, providing succinct insights without compromising on depth or accuracy, making it a perfect tool for fast-paced, modern-day inquiries.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mercury Coder

    Mercury Coder

    Inception Labs

    Mercury, the latest innovation from Inception Labs, is the first commercial-scale diffusion large language model (dLLM), offering a 10x speed increase and significantly lower costs compared to traditional autoregressive models. Built for high-performance reasoning, coding, and structured text generation, Mercury processes over 1000 tokens per second on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, making it one of the fastest LLMs available. Unlike conventional models that generate text one token at a time, Mercury refines responses using a coarse-to-fine diffusion approach, improving accuracy and reducing hallucinations. With Mercury Coder, a specialized coding model, developers can experience cutting-edge AI-driven code generation with superior speed and efficiency.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ERNIE X1 Turbo
    ERNIE X1 Turbo, developed by Baidu, is an advanced deep reasoning AI model introduced at the Baidu Create 2025 conference. Designed to handle complex multi-step tasks such as problem-solving, literary creation, and code generation, this model outperforms competitors like DeepSeek R1 in terms of reasoning abilities. With a focus on multimodal capabilities, ERNIE X1 Turbo supports text, audio, and image processing, making it an incredibly versatile AI solution. Despite its cutting-edge technology, it is priced at just a fraction of the cost of other top-tier models, offering a high-value solution for businesses and developers.
    Starting Price: $0.14 per 1M tokens
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    Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition)
    Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition) by Google is an advanced AI model designed to streamline coding tasks and enhance web app development. This powerful tool allows developers to efficiently transform and edit code, reducing errors and improving function calling accuracy. With enhanced capabilities in video understanding and web app creation, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview excels at building aesthetically pleasing and functional web applications. Available through Google’s Gemini API and AI platforms, this model provides a seamless solution for developers to create innovative applications with improved performance and reliability.
    Starting Price: $19.99/month
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    OpenAI o3-pro
    OpenAI’s o3-pro is a high-performance reasoning model designed for tasks that require deep analysis and precision. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, succeeding the earlier o1-pro model. The model excels in complex fields like mathematics, science, and coding by employing detailed step-by-step reasoning. It integrates advanced tools such as real-time web search, file analysis, Python execution, and visual input processing. While powerful, o3-pro has slower response times and lacks support for features like image generation and temporary chats. Despite these trade-offs, o3-pro demonstrates superior clarity, accuracy, and adherence to instructions compared to its predecessor.
    Starting Price: $20 per 1 million tokens
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    GPT‑5-Codex
    GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding within Codex, focusing on real-world software engineering tasks (building full projects from scratch, adding features & tests, debugging, large-scale refactors, and code reviews). Codex now moves faster, is more reliable, and works better in real-time across your development environments, whether in terminal/CLI, IDE extension, via the web, in GitHub, or even on mobile. GPT-5-Codex is the default model for cloud tasks and code review; developers can also opt to use it locally via Codex CLI or the IDE extension. It dynamically adjusts how much “reasoning time” it spends depending on task complexity; small, well-defined tasks are fast and snappy; more complex ones (refactors, large feature work) get more sustained effort. Code review is stronger; it catches critical bugs before shipping.
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    Relace

    Relace

    Relace

    Relace offers a suite of specialized AI models purpose-built for coding workflows. Its retrieval, embedding, code-reranker, and “Instant Apply” models are designed to integrate into existing development environments and accelerate code production, merging changes at speeds over 2,500 tokens per second and handling large codebases (million-line scale) in under 2 seconds. The platform supports hosted API access and self-hosted or VPC-isolated deployments, so teams have full control of data and infrastructure. Its code-oriented embedding and reranking models identify the most relevant files for a given developer query and filter out irrelevant context, reducing prompt bloat and improving accuracy. The Instant Apply model merges AI-generated snippets into existing codebases with high reliability and low error rate, streamlining pull-request reviews, CI/CD workflows, and automated fixes.
    Starting Price: $0.80 per million tokens
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    GPT-5.1

    GPT-5.1

    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand.
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    GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
    GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the high-capability variant of the GPT-5.1-Codex series designed specifically for software engineering and agentic code workflows. It builds on the base GPT-5.1 architecture with a focus on long-horizon tasks such as full project generation, large-scale refactoring, and autonomous multi-step bug and test management. It introduces adaptive reasoning, meaning the system dynamically allocates more compute for complex problems and less for simpler ones, to improve efficiency and output quality. It also supports tool use (IDE-integrated workflows, version control, CI/CD pipelines) and offers higher fidelity in code review, debugging, and agentic behavior than general-purpose models. Alongside Max, there are lighter variants such as Codex-Mini for cost-sensitive or scale use-cases. The GPT-5.1-Codex family is available in developer previews, including via integrations like GitHub Copilot.
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    GPT-5.2 Thinking
    GPT-5.2 Thinking is the highest-capability configuration in OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family, engineered for deep, expert-level reasoning, complex task execution, and advanced problem solving across long contexts and professional domains. Built on the foundational GPT-5.2 architecture with improvements in grounding, stability, and reasoning quality, this variant applies more compute and reasoning effort to generate responses that are more accurate, structured, and contextually rich when handling highly intricate workflows, multi-step analysis, and domain-specific challenges. GPT-5.2 Thinking excels at tasks that require sustained logical coherence, such as detailed research synthesis, advanced coding and debugging, complex data interpretation, strategic planning, and sophisticated technical writing, and it outperforms lighter variants on benchmarks that test professional skills and deep comprehension.
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    GPT-5.2 Instant
    GPT-5.2 Instant is the fast, capable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family designed for everyday work and learning with clear improvements in information-seeking questions, how-tos and walkthroughs, technical writing, and translation compared to prior versions. It builds on the warmer conversational tone introduced in GPT-5.1 Instant and produces clearer explanations that surface key information upfront, making it easier for users to get concise, accurate answers quickly. GPT-5.2 Instant delivers speed and responsiveness for typical tasks like answering queries, generating summaries, assisting with research, and helping with writing and editing, while incorporating broader enhancements from the GPT-5.2 series in reasoning, long-context handling, and factual grounding. As part of the GPT-5.2 lineup, it shares the same foundational improvements that boost overall reliability and performance across a wide range of everyday activities.
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    GPT-5.2 Pro
    GPT-5.2 Pro is the highest-capability variant of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.2 model family, built to deliver professional-grade reasoning, complex task performance, and enhanced accuracy for demanding knowledge work, creative problem-solving, and enterprise-level applications. It builds on the foundational improvements of GPT-5.2, including stronger general intelligence, superior long-context understanding, better factual grounding, and improved tool use, while using more compute and deeper processing to produce more thoughtful, reliable, and context-rich responses for users with intricate, multi-step requirements. GPT-5.2 Pro is designed to handle challenging workflows such as advanced coding and debugging, deep data analysis, research synthesis, extensive document comprehension, and complex project planning with greater precision and fewer errors than lighter variants.
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    Gemini 3 Flash
    Gemini 3 Flash is Google’s latest AI model built to deliver frontier intelligence with exceptional speed and efficiency. It combines Pro-level reasoning with Flash-level latency, making advanced AI more accessible and affordable. The model excels in complex reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows while using fewer tokens for everyday tasks. Gemini 3 Flash is designed to scale across consumer apps, developer tools, and enterprise platforms. It supports rapid coding, data analysis, video understanding, and interactive application development. By balancing performance, cost, and speed, Gemini 3 Flash redefines what fast AI can achieve.
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    Composer 1.5
    Composer 1.5 is the latest agentic coding model from Cursor that balances speed and intelligence for everyday code tasks by scaling reinforcement learning approximately 20x more than its predecessor, enabling stronger performance on real-world programming challenges. It’s designed as a “thinking model” that generates internal reasoning tokens to analyze a user’s codebase and plan next steps, responding quickly to simple problems and engaging deeper reasoning on complex ones, while remaining interactive and fast for daily development workflows. To handle long-running tasks, Composer 1.5 introduces self-summarization, allowing the model to compress and carry forward context when it reaches context limits, which helps maintain accuracy across varying input lengths. Internal benchmarks show it surpasses Composer 1 in coding tasks, especially on more difficult issues, making it more capable for interactive use within Cursor’s environment.
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    GLM-5V-Turbo
    GLM-5V-Turbo is a multimodal coding foundation model designed for vision-based coding tasks, capable of natively processing inputs such as images, video, text, and files while producing text outputs. It is optimized for agent workflows, enabling a full loop of understanding environments, planning actions, and executing tasks, and integrates seamlessly with agent frameworks like Claude Code and OpenClaw. It supports long-context interactions with a context length of 200K tokens and up to 128K output tokens, making it suitable for complex, long-horizon tasks. It offers multiple thinking modes for different scenarios, strong vision comprehension across images and video, real-time streaming output for improved interaction, and advanced function-calling capabilities for integrating external tools. It also includes context caching to enhance performance in extended conversations. In practical use, it can reconstruct frontend projects from design mockups.
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    SWE-1.6

    SWE-1.6

    Cognition

    SWE-1.6 is an engineering–focused AI model developed by Cognition and integrated into the Devin (Windsurf) environment, designed to optimize both raw intelligence and what the company calls “model UX,” or the overall feel and efficiency of interacting with an AI agent. It represents a new iteration in the SWE model family, improving performance on benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro by over 10% compared to SWE-1.5 while maintaining similar underlying capabilities. It was trained from scratch to jointly improve reasoning quality and user experience, addressing issues observed in earlier versions such as overthinking simple problems, taking too many steps, looping in repetitive reasoning, and relying excessively on terminal commands instead of specialized tools. SWE-1.6 introduces behavioral improvements such as more frequent parallel tool usage, faster context retrieval, and reduced need for user input, resulting in smoother and more efficient workflows.
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    Qwen3.6

    Qwen3.6

    Alibaba

    Qwen3.6 is a large language model developed by Alibaba as part of its Qwen AI model family, designed for real-world applications and advanced reasoning tasks. It focuses on improving stability, usability, and performance compared to earlier versions. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and reason across text, images, and other data types. Qwen3.6 is particularly strong in coding and developer workflows, offering improved accuracy for complex programming tasks. It uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient performance while maintaining large-scale model capabilities. The model is designed to be deployable in production environments, including enterprise and cloud-based systems. It can be integrated into applications or run locally using open-weight variants. Overall, Qwen3.6 delivers a powerful, efficient, and versatile AI solution for modern use cases.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Ling 2.6

    Ling 2.6

    Ant Group

    Ling 2.6 is a general-purpose large language model series independently developed and open-sourced by Ant Group, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture and designed for inference efficiency, long context modeling, training technology, and AI Agent collaborative reasoning. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. The Ling 2.6 series further advances long-sequence modeling, with Ling-2.6-1T supporting up to a 1M native context window and the official API exposing a 256K context window, while Ling-2.6-flash provides a native 256K context window capable of processing approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input. The models are designed for reliable long-range information retrieval, with no noticeable degradation whether information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context.
    Starting Price: $0.0028 per 1M tokens
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    Ling 2.6 Flash
    Ling 2.6 Flash is the latest cost-effective model in the Ling series, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture with 104B total parameters and 7.4B activated parameters. It is designed to achieve an optimal balance between inference performance and compute cost, making it suitable for general-purpose scenarios where strong reasoning capability, high throughput, and efficient deployment matter. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. Ling 2.6 Flash provides a native 256K context window and can process approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input, with reliable long-range information retrieval whether key information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context. Its aggregate benchmark performance is comparable to or exceeds 40B-class Dense models.
    Starting Price: $0.00037 per 1M tokens
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    Ring 2.6

    Ring 2.6

    Ant Group

    Ring is a trillion-parameter thinking model from Ant Group, designed for real-world Agent workflows. It uses the same Mixture of Experts architecture as Ling, activating about 63B parameters per inference, and focuses on coding agents, tool use, multi-tool collaboration, engineering development, research analysis, and long-horizon task execution. Rather than only pursuing “smarter” results, Ring is built to consistently complete complex tasks at reasonable cost, balancing quality, speed, and execution efficiency in production environments. Ring-2.6-1T introduces an adjustable Reasoning Effort mechanism with high and xhigh reasoning intensity levels, using adaptive reasoning budget allocation based on task complexity. High mode is designed for high-frequency Agent workflows, lower token cost, faster multi-step execution, multi-turn interaction, tool collaboration, and task decomposition.
    Starting Price: $0.0028 per 1M tokens
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    Ling 3.0 Flash
    Ling 3.0 Flash is a next-generation efficient language model designed for long-horizon agent workflows, combining fast response, low activation, and stable tool use. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 124 billion total parameters and 5.1 billion activated parameters per token, providing capability while keeping inference efficient. The model supports a native 256K context window that can be extended up to 1 million tokens, with reliable retrieval across information placed at the beginning, middle, or end of long contexts. Compared with the previous Flash model, Ling 3.0 Flash improves stability on extended tasks, tool-calling accuracy, instruction following, compatibility with agent harnesses, and coding performance. Its optimized spatial understanding can construct physical scene grids and reason about relative positions, while hybrid reasoning improves success rates across tasks of varying difficulty.
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    Grok 4.7

    Grok 4.7

    SpaceXAI

    Grok 4.7 is an upcoming xAI model expected to continue the Grok 4.x family’s focus on coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. While xAI has not yet published an official Grok 4.7 launch page, model card, API slug, pricing, or benchmark report, the model is positioned as a future step beyond currently documented Grok 4-era releases. Grok 4.7 will likely build on xAI’s recent work around software engineering, tool use, long-context reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and real-time AI assistance. Developers and AI teams should treat Grok 4.7 as an upcoming model rather than a generally available product until xAI releases official documentation. Once available, it may be relevant for coding agents, research workflows, automation, technical support, and enterprise AI applications. Built for developers and power users tracking xAI’s roadmap, Grok 4.7 represents a likely next-stage model for advanced reasoning and agentic productivity.
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    Pokee-Isaac

    Pokee-Isaac

    Pokee AI

    Pokee-Isaac text-only agentic model with a usable context window of up to 10 million tokens. It is designed to reason, plan, call tools, and execute long-horizon tasks while remaining small enough to deploy inside a VPC, on customer premises, on a workstation, or on-device. Pokee reports that Isaac maintains strong long-context performance across RULER from 256K through 10M tokens and leads the evaluated panel on multi-needle retrieval at 256K, 512K, and 1M. Its agentic architecture is built for deterministic function calling, sustained multi-turn coherence, real-shell execution, and discovering and composing tools across live MCP servers. In Pokee’s controlled benchmarks, Isaac ranked first on BFCL v4 and τ³-bench, second on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 text-only subset, and third on MCP-Atlas. Security testing with DTAP also showed the lowest combined attack success rate in the comparison panel while retaining strong benign-task performance.
    Starting Price: $0.15 per 1M tokens
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    PaLM 2

    PaLM 2

    Google

    PaLM 2 is our next generation large language model that builds on Google’s legacy of breakthrough research in machine learning and responsible AI. It excels at advanced reasoning tasks, including code and math, classification and question answering, translation and multilingual proficiency, and natural language generation better than our previous state-of-the-art LLMs, including PaLM. It can accomplish these tasks because of the way it was built – bringing together compute-optimal scaling, an improved dataset mixture, and model architecture improvements. PaLM 2 is grounded in Google’s approach to building and deploying AI responsibly. It was evaluated rigorously for its potential harms and biases, capabilities and downstream uses in research and in-product applications. It’s being used in other state-of-the-art models, like Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM, and is powering generative AI features and tools at Google, like Bard and the PaLM API.
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    DBRX

    DBRX

    Databricks

    Today, we are excited to introduce DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks. Across a range of standard benchmarks, DBRX sets a new state-of-the-art for established open LLMs. Moreover, it provides the open community and enterprises building their own LLMs with capabilities that were previously limited to closed model APIs; according to our measurements, it surpasses GPT-3.5, and it is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. It is an especially capable code model, surpassing specialized models like CodeLLaMA-70B in programming, in addition to its strength as a general-purpose LLM. This state-of-the-art quality comes with marked improvements in training and inference performance. DBRX advances the state-of-the-art in efficiency among open models thanks to its fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture. Inference is up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B, and DBRX is about 40% of the size of Grok-1 in terms of both total and active parameter counts.