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Apodex 1.1 vs Cactus Needle 2
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 24 | |
| Family | Apodex | Needle |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 262K tokens | 256 tokens |
| Input Price | Free | Free |
| Output Price | Free | Free |
| Pricing Notes | The official API campaign currently sets input, cached input, and output to $0.00 per 1M tokens. Published list prices are $0.30 input, $0.03 cached input, and $3.00 output per 1M tokens; requests above 200K input tokens are charged at twice the listed rates when paid pricing resumes. Apodex has not published the campaign end date, so pricing requires daily revalidation. | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. |
| Capabilities | textreasoningcodelong-contextstreaming | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline |
| Max Output | 262K tokens | 256 tokens |
| API Identifier | apodex-1.1 | Cactus-Compute/needle2 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | 44artificial-analysis | — |
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | — | 63.7cactus-compute |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | — | 42.6cactus-compute |
| View Apodex 1.1 | View Cactus Needle 2 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apodex 1.1Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
Apodex
Apodex 1.1
Apodex 1.1 is a proprietary long-context reasoning model for complex professional work, research, coding, and evidence-heavy analysis through a first-party API.
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
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