Google: Gemma 2 9B

Google's Gemma 2 9B demonstrates exceptional speed and competitive pricing, consistently ranking among the fastest and most cost-effective models across various benchmarks. This open-source language model, released on June 27, 2024, is designed for efficiency and broad application. In terms of performance across categories, Gemma 2 9B exhibits a significant strength in Ethics, achieving perfect 100% accuracy and ranking among the top three in speed for this task, making it the most accurate model at its price point and speed. It also shows reasonable performance in Email Classification with 94% accuracy. However, the model struggles considerably with Instruction Following and Reasoning, scoring 0% accuracy in one Instruction Following benchmark and 0% in Reasoning. Its performance in Hallucinations (28% accuracy) and Mathematics (24% accuracy) indicates areas for improvement, suggesting a tendency to generate incorrect information or difficulty with complex mathematical problems. General Knowledge and Coding also present as weaknesses, with accuracies of 58.5% and 13% respectively.