Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) vs Spark X2.6 4B, head to head

Side A

Side B

Overall

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) is clearly better. It wins 31 of the 42 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. Both models spend about the same on thinking per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens

TaskAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BSpark X2.6 4BApodex 1.1 Mini (free)Spark X2.6 4B

Overall

2535.1s

8.5K8.2K

151m 3s

Agents

Runs multi-step jobs through tools, within a written policy

2639.4s

6.2K11.5K

141m 32s

Structured Extraction

Turns logs, diffs and records into exact JSON

5227.2s

7.7K5.3K

1039.5s

Coding

Writes code and SQL that pass hidden tests

446.5s

12.1K9.1K

41m 8s

Grounded Answers

Answers from the given documents with sources, never guesses

2926.0s

6.9K6.6K

1050.2s

Instruction Following

Applies every rule, including ones changed mid-conversation

3644.5s

11.4K11.9K

371m 29s

Business Logic

Computes billing, scheduling and pricing rules exactly

1435.4s

10K4.9K

1036.3s

Security & permissions

Ignores planted instructions, still does the allowed work

4027.3s

5.8K7K

3154.3s

Diagnosis & investigation

Chooses diagnostic checks, repairs supported causes and verifies recovery

034.6s

5.1K11.6K

01m 30s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BSpark X2.6 4B

Speed

278 tok/s

136 tok/s

Machine

Hosted

RTX 5090, 32 GB

Memory at 32K

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9.4 GB

Context

256K

605K

Cost per run

Not measured

$1.61 est.

Cost per case

Not measured

$0.011 est.

Time per case

35.1s

1m 3s

Quantization

BF16

Harness

openrouter

llama.cpp

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)Spark X2.6 4B

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

Agents41

Structured Extraction101

Coding12

Grounded Answers40

Instruction Following42

Business Logic21

Security & permissions64

Diagnosis & investigation00

31 won by Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)11 won by Spark X2.6 4B111 tied