Model record
Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker model overview
Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker is a open weights model from ServiceNow. It was released on November 28, 2025. Its strongest case is mit-licensed weights, while buyers should account for no model-specific price.
Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker benchmark snapshot
| Evaluation | Reported score | What it probes |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | Not reported | Broad knowledge and multi-step reasoning |
| GPQA Diamond | Not reported | Graduate-level science reasoning |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not reported | Verified real-repository issue resolution |
| LiveCodeBench | Not reported | Contamination-aware competitive programming |
| SWE-Bench Pro | Not reported | Longer, harder professional software tasks |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | Not reported | Composite 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.
Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker strengths
- MIT-licensed weights
- 131K context
Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker limitations
- No model-specific price
- Not the newest family label
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
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