Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1

Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1, a 33B-A3B coding agent model released on July 2, 2026, demonstrates a balanced performance profile with notable strengths. It exhibits moderate speed performance, ranking in the 39th percentile across benchmarks, and offers cost-effective solutions, placing in the 69th percentile for pricing. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, achieving a 100% success rate across all 7 benchmarks, indicating consistent and stable operation. The model excels in several key areas. It achieved perfect accuracy in the Ethics benchmark, demonstrating strong moral reasoning, and also performed very well in Email Classification (99.0% accuracy, 88th percentile) and General Knowledge (99.5% accuracy, 76th percentile). Its Coding capabilities are robust, with 92.0% accuracy (73rd percentile), making it a strong contender for development tasks. Instruction Following and Reasoning also show solid performance, both in the 65th-71st percentile range. The primary weakness identified is its performance in Hallucinations, where it scored 72.0% accuracy (16th percentile), suggesting room for improvement in acknowledging uncertainty for fictional concepts.