Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking

arcee-ai · Released Apr 1, 2026
DFO score #220 / 717
17.8 leaderboard score
Speed #9 / 344
356.9 tok/s
Input Price #376 / 717
$0.250 per 1M tokens
Output Price #376 / 717
$0.800 per 1M tokens
Context #185 / 717
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Arcee AI's Trinity Large Thinking is a text model with a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. Its measured intelligence and coding results are low, while its tool-interaction measurement is a notable relative strength. Listed rates are $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens. The benchmark profile is mixed rather than broadly strong.

The model may be worth testing for narrow tool-driven tasks where the observed tool result aligns with the workflow. However, the low reasoning and coding measurements limit its suitability for complex analysis, software engineering, and unsupervised client-facing agents. Long context is useful for handling larger inputs, but does not by itself establish reliable long-document reasoning.

Use it only after a task-specific pilot, with monitoring and human review around tool actions. It is not the first choice for general agency work based on the provided evidence.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Trinity Large Thinking provides a 262K context and tool support, with a strong tool-interaction measurement but weak overall reasoning and coding results.

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DFO Verdict

Trinity Large Thinking provides a 262K context and tool support, with a strong tool-interaction measurement but weak overall reasoning and coding results.

#220 of 717 overall Down 8 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 10.8 #220 of 442 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index 25.8 #118 of 198 · Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index 1.0 #157 of 181 · Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating
GPQA Diamond 75.2%
HLE 14.7%
SciCode 36.1%
TerminalBench Hard 22.7%
τ²-Bench 90.1%
IFBench 56.3%
LCR 33%

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 22, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 20, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.

How Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking compares

Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking ranks #220 of 442 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #118 of 198 for coding, #157 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 74% of the models we list. At $0.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 48% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 69% of models #220
Speed: faster than 97% of models #9
Price: cheaper than 48% of models #376
Context: larger than 74% of models #185
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking $0.25 in $0.80 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking 262K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.25 $0.000250
Output $0.80 $0.000800

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$1.49/mo Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking $0.0005 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$7.92/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) · best value $0.0026 per request

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About Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking

Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench, agentic workloads, and reasoning tasks. Launch video: https://youtu.be/Gc82AXLa0Rg?si=4RLn6WBz33qT--B7..

Frequently asked questions about Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking

How much does Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking cost?

Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking?

Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).

Is Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking ranks #118 of 198 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking do?

Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking?

Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking is developed by Arcee AI and was released on April 1, 2026.

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