Clover 35B A3B Preview vs Flint, head to head

Side A

Side B

Overall

Clover 35B A3B Preview is clearly better. It wins 28 of the 41 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. The time under each score is the average per test case, on the machine it ran on. Flint spends 1.2× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens

TaskAClover 35B A3B PreviewBFlintClover 35B A3B PreviewFlint

Overall

3035.1s

8.4K10.9K

211m 17s

Agents

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

2036.8s

9.6K4.8K

1447.7s

Structured Extraction

Turns logs, diffs and records into exact JSON

4327.5s

7.2K10.9K

291m 17s

Coding

Writes code and SQL that pass hidden tests

101m 5s

12.2K12K

141m 19s

Grounded Answers

Answers from the given documents with sources, never guesses

4821.0s

5.4K8.7K

2957.7s

Instruction Following

Applies every rule, including ones changed mid-conversation

5332.8s

9.2K22.2K

352m 28s

Business Logic

Computes billing, scheduling and pricing rules exactly

1936.1s

9.8K11.7K

101m 20s

Security & permissions

Ignores planted instructions, still does the allowed work

4725.6s

5.8K7.1K

3552.6s

Diagnosis & investigation

Chooses diagnostic checks, repairs supported causes and verifies recovery

037.0s

7K7.3K

057.0s

What you'd run

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

SpecAClover 35B A3B PreviewBFlint

Speed

252 tok/s

149 tok/s

Machine

Hosted

Memory at 32K

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Context

—

256K

Cost per run

Not measured

Cost per case

Not measured

Time per case

35.1s

1m 17s

Quantization

—

BF16

Harness

custom

openrouter

The race

3 lead changes

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

Clover 35B A3B PreviewFlint

Every test case

153 test cases

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

Agents42

Structured Extraction52

Coding01

Grounded Answers40

Instruction Following64

Business Logic31

Security & permissions63

Diagnosis & investigation00

28 won by Clover 35B A3B Preview13 won by Flint112 tied