Arctic Instruct: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Arctic Instruct is a open-weight model from Snowflake. It offers a 65,536-token context window, costs $2.83 per million input tokens and $13.96 per million output tokens, and averages 70.6 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Arctic Instruct costs $2.83 per million input tokens and $13.96 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $5.61 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.30 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.83 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $13.96 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.30 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $5.61 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $16.79 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3 | 380 | 37th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.6 | 367 | 39th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 58.3 | 348 | 42th | |
| HumanEval | 74.1 | 356 | 41th | |
| MATH-500 | 74.3 | 340 | 43th | |
| AIME 2025 | 66.7 | 318 | 47th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 65.2 | 288 | 52th | |
| IFEval | 78.9 | 357 | 41th | |
| TruthfulQA | 74.1 | 350 | 42th | |
| HellaSwag | 83.6 | 297 | 51th | |
| MMMU | 64.9 | 381 | 37th | |
| Arena Elo | 1343.7 | 375 | 38th |
What Arctic Instruct is good for
Arctic Instruct is an open-weight model, so it can be self-hosted or run through a third-party inference provider. That matters for data residency, fine-tuning and long-run cost control. At $2.83 per million input tokens (hosted list price) and a 65,536-token context window, it is a practical option for teams that want more control than a closed API allows.
Strengths
- Input price of $2.83 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
- Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefunction Turbo | Fireworks AI | 32768 | $8.44 | 70.7 |
| Arctic Instruct | Snowflake | 65536 | $2.83 | 70.6 |
| Nova Pro Mini | Amazon | 16384 | $7.74 | 70.6 |
| OLMo 2 Chat | Allen Institute for AI | 16384 | $2.94 | 70.6 |
| o3 Nano | OpenAI | 32768 | $7.78 | 70.6 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | OpenAI | 32768 | $7.42 | 70.5 |
FAQ
How much does Arctic Instruct cost?
Arctic Instruct is listed at $2.83 per million input tokens and $13.96 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.30 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $5.61 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Arctic Instruct?
Arctic Instruct has a context window of 65,536 tokens and can emit up to 65,536 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Arctic Instruct open weights?
Yes. Arctic Instruct is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.
How does Arctic Instruct score on benchmarks?
Arctic Instruct averages 70.6 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #353 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1343.7.
What is Arctic Instruct best for?
Arctic Instruct is an open-weight model, so it can be self-hosted or run through a third-party inference provider. That matters for data residency, fine-tuning and long-run cost control. At $2.83 per million input tokens (hosted list price) and a 65,536-token context window, it is a practical option for teams that want more control than a closed API allows.