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Aquila 2 7B vs Italia 10B Instruct

Aquila 2 7B (2023) and Italia 10B Instruct (2025) are compact production models from Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and iGenius. Aquila 2 7B ships a 2k-token context window, while Italia 10B Instruct ships a 16k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads.

Italia 10B Instruct fits 8x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and Aquila 2 7B for tighter calls.

Decision scorecard

Local evidence first
SignalAquila 2 7BItalia 10B Instruct
Best forgeneral production evaluationgeneral production evaluation
Decision fitGeneralGeneral
Context window2k16k
Cheapest output--
Provider routes0 tracked1 tracked
Shared benchmarks0 shared0 shared

Decision tradeoffs

Choose Aquila 2 7B when...
  • Use Aquila 2 7B when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.
Choose Italia 10B Instruct when...
  • Italia 10B Instruct has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
  • Italia 10B Instruct has broader tracked provider coverage for fallback and route flexibility.

Monthly cost at traffic

Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.

Aquila 2 7B

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Italia 10B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.

Switch friction

Aquila 2 7B -> Italia 10B Instruct
  • No overlapping tracked provider route is sourced for Aquila 2 7B and Italia 10B Instruct; plan for SDK, billing, or endpoint changes.
Italia 10B Instruct -> Aquila 2 7B
  • No overlapping tracked provider route is sourced for Italia 10B Instruct and Aquila 2 7B; plan for SDK, billing, or endpoint changes.

Specs

Specification
Released2023-11-022025-01-01
Context window2k16k
Parameters7B10B
ArchitectureDecoder OnlyDecoder Only
LicenseProprietaryLlama 3 Community
OpennessProprietaryOpen weights
WeightsNot releasedUnknown
CodeUnknownUnknown
Commercial useCommercial use: conditionalCommercial use: conditional
Knowledge cutoff--

Pricing and availability

Pricing attributeAquila 2 7BItalia 10B Instruct
Input price--
Output price--
Providers-

Pricing not yet sourced for either model.

Capabilities

CapabilityAquila 2 7BItalia 10B Instruct
VisionNoNo
MultimodalNoNo
ReasoningNoNo
JSON / Tool useNoNo
Structured outputsNoNo
Code executionNoNo
IDE integrationNoNo
Computer useNoNo
Parallel agentsNoNo

Benchmarks

No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.

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Last reviewed: 2026-06-29. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.