AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Swiss AI Initiative
Apertus 1.5 70B is the 70B-parameter member of Apertus 1.5, the fully open multilingual model family from the Swiss AI Initiative (ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS), released on July 24, 2026. It was continued-pretrained from Apertus 1.0, takes image, audio and text input, generates text, and has an optional thinking mode.
Model B — Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Max is a native vision-language model from Alibaba’s Qwen team, which Qwen calls its flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with hybrid thinking (on by default) and a 1M-token context window. Its open-weight counterpart, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, has 95B activated parameters.
| Property | Apertus 1.5 70B | Qwen3.8-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Jul 24, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 |
| Developer | Swiss AI Initiative | Alibaba |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-source | open-weight |
| Context window | 262,144 | — |
| Parameters | 70B | 2.4T total (MoE); open-weight base Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B: 2.4T total, 95B activated |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | $2.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | — | $6.00 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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