Reka: Flash 3

Reka Flash 3, a 21-billion parameter instruction-tuned LLM, demonstrates exceptional speed, consistently ranking among the fastest models across all benchmarks. It also offers highly competitive pricing, placing in the 94th percentile. Reliability is a significant strength, with a perfect 100% success rate across all evaluated benchmarks, indicating robust technical stability. Performance across benchmarks reveals a mixed but generally strong profile. The model achieved perfect 100% accuracy in Email Classification, notably being the most accurate model at its price point and among models of comparable speed. It also performed well in General Knowledge, securing 96% accuracy, and Coding, with 89% accuracy, placing it in the 71st percentile for coding proficiency. However, a significant weakness is observed in Instruction Following (Baseline), where it recorded 0.0% accuracy, suggesting a critical area for improvement despite its instruction-tuned nature. Its explicit reasoning tags ("<reasoning>") are a unique feature for transparency. While primarily an English model, its compact size and efficient quantization make it suitable for low-latency and on-device deployments.