Swiss AI Initiative

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509

A fully open multilingual model jointly developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS.

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Model record

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 model overview

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 is a open weights model from Swiss AI Initiative. It was released on September 2, 2025. Its strongest case is open artifacts, while buyers should account for no model-specific price.

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 benchmark snapshot

EvaluationReported scoreWhat it probes
MMLU-ProNot reportedBroad knowledge and multi-step reasoning
GPQA DiamondNot reportedGraduate-level science reasoning
SWE-bench VerifiedNot reportedVerified real-repository issue resolution
LiveCodeBenchNot reportedContamination-aware competitive programming
SWE-Bench ProNot reportedLonger, harder professional software tasks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexNot reportedComposite third-party capability index; version matters

Scores are percentages reported by model creators or benchmark maintainers under varying settings. A blank is preferable to an inferred result. See our methodology.

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 strengths

  • Open artifacts
  • Apache license

Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 limitations

  • No model-specific price
  • Joint attribution does not fit one company cleanly
Editorial take: Benchmark rank should narrow a shortlist, not close a purchase. Run a private evaluation with representative prompts, failure cases, latency targets, and total token costs.

Source record

Specifications and scores are linked to the best source located during review. Provider-reported results are not presented as third-party lab reproductions.

Source limitation: Official model card: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509

Read EPFL/ETH Zurich/CSCS Apertus joint release