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Sao10K Stheno 8b

Added Jan 1, 2024Open weights

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Sao10K's latest Stheno fine-tune optimized for instruction following.

Input
Text
Output
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Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.20
Output
$0.20

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
16.4K
Max output
8.2K
Average output (7 days)
177 tokens
Longer than 18% of 468 models

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Sao10K Stheno 8bMetaThis modelMuse Spark OpenMetaRemove
ProviderMetaMeta
Discovery tierOpen weightsFrontier
AddedJan 1, 2024Oct 15, 2026
Limits
Context window16.38K1.05MBest
Max output8.19K—
Average output177 tokens1.3K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.20Best$1.25
Output$0.20Best$4.25
Cache read—$0.15
Performance
Throughput30.4 tok/s—
Time to first token2.1 s—
Request success (24h)67.2%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index—38.9
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsNoYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputNoYes
Reasoning effort—low, medium, high, xhigh

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Sao10K Stheno 8b
  • Muse Spark Open

Intelligence Index

  • Sao10K Stheno 8b—
  • Muse Spark Open38.9
3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 49.7%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 20.9%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 1,279 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 1,401 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 18.6%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 78.3%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 7.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 43.9%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 89.0%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 8.1%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 58.4%

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Sao10K Stheno 8b: —
    • Muse Spark Open: 78.3%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
30.4 tok/s
Faster than 21% of 254 models
Time to first token
2.1 s
Quicker than 74% of 254 models
Prompt cache hits
0.0%
Request success (24h)
67.2%

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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