Apertus 8B Instruct API Pricing

Apertus 8B Instruct pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Apertus 8B Instruct costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

Apertus 8B Instruct features

• Function calling

Use Apertus 8B Instruct with LiteLLM

Call Apertus 8B Instruct through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: apertus-8b-instruct
    litellm_params:
      model: publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-8b-instruct
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "apertus-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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