Arcee AI: Arcee Blitz

Arcee Blitz, a 24B-parameter model distilled from DeepSeek and built on Mistral architecture, demonstrates strong performance as a cost-efficient workhorse for everyday chat. It performs among the fastest models, ranking in the top tier for speed (78th percentile across 5 benchmarks), and offers competitive pricing (51st percentile). Notably, Arcee Blitz exhibits exceptional reliability with a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating consistent and usable responses. In terms of specific benchmarks, Arcee Blitz shows solid reasoning capabilities, achieving 97.5% accuracy in General Knowledge and 99.0% in Ethics, both ranking above the 50th percentile. Its performance in Coding is also respectable at 83.0% accuracy. A key strength is its Email Classification, where it achieves 95.0% accuracy and is highlighted as "Most accurate among models this fast," despite a 34th percentile accuracy ranking overall. This suggests a strong balance of speed and accuracy in this specific task. A notable area for improvement is Instruction Following, where it scored 59.2% accuracy, placing it in the 62nd percentile but indicating room for refinement in handling complex, multi-layered instructions. Its competitive throughput and 128k context window make it suitable for summarization and brainstorming.