Arcee AI: Spotlight
Analysis Summary
Arcee AI: Spotlight sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #324 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.180 input and $0.180 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports vision.
Editorial notes
Arcee AI's Spotlight is a vision-capable model with a 131K context window at very competitive pricing, but no published benchmark data limits our ability to assess its real-world performance. It may be worth trialling for lightweight image-and-text content tasks, but businesses should verify quality before committing.
Assessed April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
Spotlight is a 7‑billion‑parameter vision‑language model derived from Qwen 2.5‑VL and fine‑tuned by Arcee AI for tight image‑text grounding tasks. It offers a 32 k‑token context window, enabling rich multimodal..
Capabilities
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
arcee-ai/spotlight
|
| Provider | arcee-ai |
| Release Date | May 5, 2025 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,537 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.18 | $0.000180 |
| Output | $0.18 | $0.000180 |
