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Why use Arctic on NVIDIA NIM?
NVIDIA NIM offers Arctic with competitive pricing. NVIDIA NIM is NVIDIA's deployment platform for GPU-accelerated inference microservices.
Compare Arctic across 4 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
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arctic.Gotchas
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Compare Arctic Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
| Microsoft Foundry | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Together AI | $2.40 | $2.40 |
| Replicate API | $0.65 | $2.75 |
Pricing
| Type | Rate |
|---|---|
| GPU Hour Rate | $1.00/GPU·hr |
Capabilities
About Arctic
Snowflake Arctic is an advanced large language model tailored for enterprise applications by Snowflake AI Research. It features an innovative Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture, combining a 10 billion parameter dense transformer with a 128 x 3.66 billion parameter MoE MLP, totaling 480 billion parameters but utilizing only 17 billion actively. This structure optimizes efficiency, particularly for tasks like SQL generation, coding, and instruction following. The model's training spanned a diverse dataset of 3.5 trillion tokens, focusing on enterprise needs. Despite its capabilities, Arctic's deployment presents challenges due to its size, and it remains vulnerable to inaccuracies with unclear inputs. Open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, it provides comprehensive access to its weights, code, and research findings 1 2 4 5.
FAQ
What is the context window for Arctic on NVIDIA NIM?
Arctic supports a 4,000 token context window on NVIDIA NIM.
How does NVIDIA NIM compare to other Arctic providers?
Arctic is available from 4 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.65/1M tokens from Replicate API.
Who created Arctic?
Arctic was created by Snowflake as part of the Arctic model family.
Is Arctic open source?
Arctic's open source status is unknown in the seed data.