Trinity Large Thinking

By Arcee AI · released 2026-04-01 (5 months) · snapshot 2026-09-07

Off the frontierNot on frontier at launch dayopen weights
Intelligence index
13.10
Cost to run the AA index
$327
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$0.25 / $0.90
End-to-end time
8.90s
Better than…

Is Trinity Large Thinking on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Off the frontier

No. GLM-5.3-Flash is at least as smart for the same money or less.

Next step up: Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh), smarter but dearer.

Trinity Large Thinking vs GLM-5.3-FlashTrinity Large Thinking vs Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)
#ModelCreatorIntelligenceTotal costE2E totalOpenReleasedFrontier
1Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI13.10$3278.90s2026-04-01
2GLM-5.3-FlashZ AI46.20$21946.1s2026-08-26Frontier
3Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Meta46.80$82225.6s2026-08-05Frontier

Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten

At a glance

Trinity Large Thinking today

Time to first answer7.31s
Output speed314 tok/s
Input modalitiesNot reported
0102030405060$10$20$50$100$200$500$1k$2k$5k$10kCost to run the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (USD, log scale)Intelligence IndexCeleris-1 (Celeris): intelligence 7.60, $171Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 22.50, $496Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 27.30, $1123Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 53.20, $7603Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 50.90, $1884Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort, Default Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 52.80, $2534Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 47.80, $4565Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 52.00, $3016Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 43.80, $811Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 54.10, $5546Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 49.50, $1688Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 53.40, $4299Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 45.10, $5313DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) (DeepSeek): intelligence 10.40, $26.2DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 40.80, $363DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 40.70, $308DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 34.50, $184DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 42.10, $707Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google): intelligence 19.30, $96.2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google): intelligence 36.70, $880Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 39.70, $1420Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google): intelligence 27.60, $166Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 40.30, $509Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 45.20, $688Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 47.10, $1078GLM-5.2 (max) (Z AI): intelligence 42.10, $1006GLM-5.3 (max) (Z AI): intelligence 48.60, $1762GPT-5.5 (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.20, $1201GPT-5.6 Sol (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 48.30, $953GPT-5.6 Sol (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 40.80, $355GPT-5.6 Sol (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 51.30, $2464GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 46.00, $580GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 49.80, $1459GPT-5.6 Terra (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.30, $516GPT-5.6 Terra (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 46.80, $1714GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 44.40, $806GPT-6 Astra (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 52.20, $1559GPT-6 Astra (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 47.80, $1631gpt-oss-120b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 15.60, $146gpt-oss-20b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 10.80, $33.7Granite 4.2 8B (IBM): intelligence 13.90, $40.9Grok 4.3 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 29.90, $310Grok 4.5 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 45.50, $759Grok 4.6 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 50.60, $1632Grok 4.6 (low) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 41.60, $343Grok 4.6 (medium) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 48.80, $1262Grok 4.6 (xhigh) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 49.90, $2026Inkling (xhigh) (Thinking Machines): intelligence 32.20, $826Inkling Small (Thinking Machines): intelligence 32.20, $203Kimi K2.7 Code (Kimi): intelligence 32.70, $623Kimi K3 (low) (Kimi): intelligence 37.10, $379Kimi K3 (max) (Kimi): intelligence 50.20, $3070Ling 3.0 Flash (InclusionAI): intelligence 27.40, $75.8Llama 4 Maverick (Meta): intelligence 10.30, $51.1MiniMax-M3 (MiniMax): intelligence 35.70, $293Mistral Large 3 (Mistral): intelligence 11.10, $91.2Mistral Small 3.1 (Mistral): intelligence 10.30, $38.1Muse Glimmer (high) (Meta): intelligence 24.40, $101Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 41.20, $789Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 29.30, $584Quasar 438B (max, based on GLM-5.2) (Multiverse Computing): intelligence 34.20, $1377Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba): intelligence 14.10, $388Qwen3.7 Max (Alibaba): intelligence 36.60, $1280Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba): intelligence 31.90, $310Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (Alibaba): intelligence 46.70, $1780Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) (Alibaba): intelligence 41.40, $900Qwen3.8 Max (Alibaba): intelligence 46.90, $1938Solar Pro 3 (Upstage): intelligence 9.40, $155Granite 4.2 3B (IBM): intelligence 10.70, $13.6MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi): intelligence 28.20, $26.4DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 30.20, $96.8DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 30.70, $101Hy3 (Tencent): intelligence 32.40, $102MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi): intelligence 32.60, $105GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.60, $119GPT-5.6 Luna (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 43.40, $214GLM-5.3-Flash (Z AI): intelligence 46.20, $219Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 46.80, $822GPT-6 Astra (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 49.30, $873Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 51.60, $1129Muse Spark 1.3 (max) (Meta): intelligence 53.00, $1341GPT-6 Astra (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 53.40, $2039GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 54.30, $2778Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 54.50, $3603GPT-6 Astra (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 54.70, $4064Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort, Default Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 56.20, $7037Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 56.80, $10816Trinity Large Thinking (Arcee AI): intelligence 13.10, $327Trinity Large ThinkingGranite 4.2 3BGLM-5.3-FlashMuse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Claude Fable 5.1 (max)
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Up and left is better. Dotted line: today's Pareto frontier. Hover a point for its numbers, click it for its page.

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: trinity-large-thinking.

Matchup

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Release

What the Trinity Large Thinking release did to the frontier on 2026-04-01

None of its 1 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.

Closest miss: Trinity Large Thinking, 6.2 points below Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite at 3.4× the cost.

Release page: launch-day frontier and every effort level

Deciding

Should you use Trinity Large Thinking?

Should you use Trinity Large Thinking?

Only when it fits your setup: GLM-5.3-Flash is at least as smart for the same money or less, so Trinity Large Thinking is off the value frontier today.

What is better and cheaper than Trinity Large Thinking?

GLM-5.3-Flash — at least as smart for the same money or less.

How much does Trinity Large Thinking cost?

$0.25/$0.90 in/out per 1M tokens, and $327 to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Is Trinity Large Thinking on the Pareto frontier?

No: GLM-5.3-Flash beats it on intelligence, cost, or both.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Trinity Large Thinking is Pareto-optimal.

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