Reka Core Mini: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Reka Core Mini is a mid-range model from Reka AI. It offers a 8,192-token context window, costs $7.48 per million input tokens and $30.50 per million output tokens, and averages 70.1 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Reka Core Mini costs $7.48 per million input tokens and $30.50 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $13.23 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.89 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $7.48 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $30.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.89 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $13.23 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $37.98 | 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 | 72.6 | 372 | 38th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7 | 347 | 42th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 59.5 | 335 | 44th | |
| HumanEval | 74.1 | 357 | 41th | |
| MATH-500 | 73.5 | 352 | 41th | |
| AIME 2025 | 64.6 | 348 | 42th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 62.0 | 350 | 42th | |
| IFEval | 78.2 | 364 | 39th | |
| TruthfulQA | 71.5 | 390 | 35th | |
| HellaSwag | 79.6 | 386 | 36th | |
| MMMU | 69.7 | 313 | 48th | |
| Arena Elo | 1359.8 | 344 | 43th |
What Reka Core Mini is good for
Reka Core Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $7.48 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Context window of 8,192 tokens is small for long-document work.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro Mini | Perplexity | 8192 | $8.02 | 70.3 |
| Yi-Large Base | 01.AI | 16384 | $2.78 | 70.3 |
| Auto | OpenRouter | 32768 | $7.53 | 70.2 |
| Phi-3.5 Instruct | Microsoft | 16384 | $2.67 | 70.1 |
| Reka Core Mini | Reka AI | 8192 | $7.48 | 70.1 |
| Firesearch Max | Fireworks AI | 8192 | $7.80 | 69.9 |
FAQ
How much does Reka Core Mini cost?
Reka Core Mini is listed at $7.48 per million input tokens and $30.50 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.89 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $13.23 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Reka Core Mini?
Reka Core Mini has a context window of 8,192 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Reka Core Mini open weights?
No. Reka Core Mini is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Reka Core Mini score on benchmarks?
Reka Core Mini averages 70.1 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #364 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1359.8.
What is Reka Core Mini best for?
Reka Core Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $7.48 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.