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| Starting Price | $1.00e-7 per prompt token | $3.00e-6 per prompt token |
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Reka Flash 3 processes multi-turn conversational inputs and generates contextually appropriate responses using a 21B parameter instruction-tuned transformer architecture. The model maintains conversation history through context windowing and applies instruction-following fine-tuning to adhere to user directives, system prompts, and role-based constraints without explicit prompt engineering overhead.
Unique: 21B parameter size optimized for inference latency and cost efficiency while maintaining instruction-following capability through specialized fine-tuning, positioned between smaller 7B models and larger 70B+ alternatives
vs alternatives: Faster and cheaper than Llama 2 70B or Mixtral 8x7B while maintaining comparable instruction-following quality through Reka's proprietary fine-tuning approach
Reka Flash 3 generates syntactically correct code snippets and complete functions across multiple programming languages using transformer-based code understanding trained on diverse codebases. The model accepts natural language descriptions, partial code, or function signatures and outputs executable code with proper indentation, imports, and error handling patterns learned during pre-training.
Unique: Trained on diverse codebases with instruction-tuning specifically for code tasks, enabling natural language-to-code translation without requiring explicit code-specific prompting patterns
vs alternatives: More cost-effective than GitHub Copilot or Claude for routine code generation while maintaining reasonable quality for non-specialized domains
Reka Flash 3 supports structured function calling by accepting JSON schemas that define available functions, parameters, and return types, then generating properly formatted function calls with bound arguments extracted from user intent. The model parses user requests, maps them to appropriate functions, and outputs structured JSON containing function name, arguments, and metadata without requiring manual prompt engineering for each function.
Unique: Instruction-tuned specifically for function calling tasks, enabling reliable schema-based argument binding without requiring specialized prompt templates or few-shot examples
vs alternatives: Comparable function calling reliability to GPT-3.5 Turbo at significantly lower cost, though slightly less accurate than GPT-4 on complex multi-step function orchestration
Reka Flash 3 answers factual questions across diverse domains (science, history, current events, technical topics) by retrieving relevant knowledge from its training data and synthesizing coherent responses. The model applies instruction-tuning to distinguish between confident answers and uncertain knowledge, enabling it to express confidence levels and acknowledge knowledge cutoffs without hallucinating unsupported claims.
Unique: Instruction-tuned to express confidence and acknowledge knowledge limitations, reducing overconfident hallucinations compared to base models while maintaining broad knowledge coverage
vs alternatives: Faster and cheaper than RAG-augmented systems for general knowledge while maintaining reasonable accuracy for common questions, though less reliable than systems with real-time fact-checking
Reka Flash 3 generates creative content (stories, poetry, marketing copy, dialogue) with controllable style and tone through instruction-based prompting. The model learns style patterns from training data and applies them consistently across generated text, enabling users to specify tone (formal, casual, humorous) and genre without fine-tuning or specialized prompt engineering.
Unique: Instruction-tuned for style and tone control, enabling consistent creative output across different genres without requiring specialized prompting techniques or separate fine-tuned models
vs alternatives: More cost-effective than Claude or GPT-4 for routine creative generation while maintaining reasonable quality for non-specialized creative domains
Reka Flash 3 condenses long-form text (articles, documents, conversations) into summaries of variable length and detail through instruction-based control. The model extracts key information, preserves essential facts, and adjusts summary granularity (brief bullet points vs. detailed paragraphs) based on user specifications without requiring separate models or fine-tuning.
Unique: Instruction-tuned to respect user-specified summary length and detail constraints, enabling consistent summarization across different document types without requiring separate models
vs alternatives: Faster and cheaper than Claude or GPT-4 for routine summarization while maintaining reasonable quality for general-domain documents
Reka Flash 3 translates text between languages while preserving meaning, tone, and context through multilingual transformer training and instruction-tuning. The model handles idiomatic expressions, cultural references, and technical terminology by learning translation patterns across diverse language pairs, enabling natural-sounding translations without requiring language-specific fine-tuning.
Unique: Multilingual instruction-tuning enables context-aware translation that preserves tone and idiomatic meaning across diverse language pairs without requiring language-specific models
vs alternatives: More cost-effective than professional translation services or specialized translation APIs while maintaining reasonable quality for general-domain content
Reka Flash 3 strictly follows complex, multi-part instructions and adheres to specified constraints (output format, length limits, style requirements) through instruction-tuning that prioritizes constraint satisfaction. The model parses compound instructions, maintains constraint awareness throughout generation, and produces outputs that satisfy all specified requirements without requiring explicit constraint encoding in prompts.
Unique: Specialized instruction-tuning for constraint satisfaction enables reliable adherence to complex output format and style requirements without requiring explicit constraint encoding or post-processing
vs alternatives: More reliable constraint adherence than base models while maintaining lower latency and cost compared to larger models like GPT-4
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Generates natural language responses mimicking Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus writing style through fine-tuning on Qwen2.5 72B base model. Uses instruction-tuned architecture to follow complex multi-step prompts while maintaining coherent, well-structured prose with appropriate tone and formality levels. The model learns stylistic patterns from Claude outputs during fine-tuning rather than using retrieval or prompt engineering alone.
Unique: Fine-tuned specifically on Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus output patterns rather than generic instruction-tuning, creating a style-matched alternative that preserves Anthropic's prose characteristics while running on Qwen2.5's 72B architecture
vs alternatives: Offers Claude-quality writing at lower cost than Anthropic's API and with more deployment flexibility than proprietary models, though with less transparency about training methodology than fully open-source alternatives like Llama
Maintains coherent multi-turn dialogue through transformer-based attention mechanisms that track conversation history and speaker context. The instruction-tuned architecture processes entire conversation threads as input, allowing the model to reference previous exchanges, maintain consistent character/tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns without explicit memory structures.
Unique: Inherits Qwen2.5's instruction-tuning approach to conversation, which explicitly trains on multi-turn formats with clear role markers, enabling better context resolution than models trained primarily on single-turn examples
vs alternatives: Simpler integration than systems requiring external memory stores (RAG, vector DBs) since context is handled natively, but less sophisticated than models with explicit memory architectures or retrieval-augmented approaches for very long conversations
Magnum v4 72B scores higher at 25/100 vs Reka Flash 3 at 23/100.
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Generates code snippets and technical explanations by applying instruction-tuned patterns learned from fine-tuning on Claude outputs. The model understands code context from natural language descriptions, can generate multiple programming languages, and provides explanations alongside code. Implementation relies on transformer attention over code tokens and learned associations between natural language intent and code patterns.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's code generation outputs, capturing Anthropic's approach to code explanation and safety considerations (e.g., error handling suggestions) rather than pure code-to-code translation
vs alternatives: Provides better code explanations and safety context than specialized code models like CodeLlama, but likely slower and less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on code-only datasets
Applies learned chain-of-thought reasoning patterns from Claude fine-tuning to break down complex problems into steps. The model generates intermediate reasoning steps before final answers, using transformer attention to track logical dependencies across reasoning chains. This is achieved through instruction-tuning on examples where Claude explicitly shows reasoning work.
Unique: Inherits Claude's explicit chain-of-thought training approach, which emphasizes showing reasoning work as part of the output rather than reasoning internally, making reasoning patterns visible and auditable
vs alternatives: More transparent reasoning than models without explicit chain-of-thought training, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on mathematical reasoning datasets or formal logic
Condenses long-form text into summaries while preserving key information, using attention mechanisms to identify salient content and instruction-tuned patterns for summary formatting. The model learns from Claude's summarization style, which emphasizes clarity and hierarchical organization of information. Works by attending to important tokens and generating compressed representations.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's summarization outputs, which emphasize hierarchical structure and clear topic organization rather than extractive summarization, producing more readable abstracts
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and readability than extractive summarization tools, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on summarization tasks or using dedicated abstractive architectures
Executes complex, multi-part instructions by parsing task structure and maintaining execution context across steps. The instruction-tuned architecture learns to identify task boundaries, handle conditional logic (if-then patterns), and sequence operations correctly. Implementation relies on transformer attention to track task state and learned patterns from Claude's instruction-following training.
Unique: Trained on Claude's instruction-following patterns, which emphasize explicit acknowledgment of task structure and step-by-step execution reporting, making task progress transparent
vs alternatives: More reliable instruction-following than base models without instruction-tuning, but less specialized than models with explicit task planning architectures or reinforcement learning from human feedback on instruction compliance
Answers questions by understanding context, identifying relevant information, and generating coherent responses. Uses transformer attention to locate answer-relevant tokens and instruction-tuned patterns to format responses appropriately. The model learns from Claude's question-answering style, which emphasizes accuracy, nuance, and acknowledgment of uncertainty.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's QA outputs, which emphasize acknowledging uncertainty, providing nuanced answers, and explaining reasoning rather than simple factual retrieval
vs alternatives: Better answer quality and nuance than retrieval-based QA systems, but without external knowledge bases or web search, limited to training data knowledge unlike RAG-augmented systems
Generates creative text including stories, essays, marketing copy, and other original content by learning stylistic patterns from Claude's creative outputs. The model uses transformer attention to maintain narrative coherence, character consistency, and thematic development across generated text. Fine-tuning captures Claude's approach to balancing creativity with clarity.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's creative outputs, which balance imaginative storytelling with clarity and coherence, producing more readable creative content than models trained purely on internet text
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and narrative coherence than base language models, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on creative writing datasets or with explicit story structure training