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Arctic Instruct

Arctic Instruct is an API model from Snowflake. It’s positioned for general text tasks—work that benefits from iteration, not just one-shot answers.

Context
4K
Up to 4,000 tokens

Core Capabilities

Long Documents
Handles entire codebases, books, and multi-doc RAG.

Context Window

4k tokens
≈ short doc
4k This model 本模型
32k Long docs 长文档
128k Books 整本书
400k Multi-doc 多文档
1M Codebase 整个代码库
10M

Availability

API
Available
Product / App
Not available
Open Source
Not released
Enterprise
Contact sales

Pricing Model

Pay per token
Input and output billed separately.
Pay-per-token

Capability / Performance

Where this model sits relative to the middle 60% of models in the tree. All scores are 0–10 (higher is better).

Lower 20% Upper 80% This model
Reasoning
AA Intelligence Index · scaled to 10
1.7
5.6
1.3
Context / memory
Context window size · log-scaled
6.0
9.0
1.0
Lower 20% 20th percentile — 20% of models score below this This model Where the current model lands Upper 80% 80th percentile — only 20% of models score above this Percentile boundaries are computed across every model in the tree that reports the underlying benchmark for each capability.

What it feels like

  • Language model from Snowflake — see the linked sources below for benchmark and review coverage

Best use cases

  • General-purpose tasks within Snowflake's deployment footprint
  • See the model spec and sources block for benchmarked use cases

Not ideal for

  • Tasks far outside the modalities listed in this model's spec
  • Workflows where a more recent successor in the same family scores higher