ServiceNow has released Apriel-v1.5-15B-Thinker, a 15B open weights reasoning model that leads our Small Models category (<40B parameters)
💼 Overview: Apriel-v1.5-15B-Thinker is a dense, 15B parameter open weights reasoning model. This is not the first model ServiceNow has released but is a substantial jump in intelligence achieved compared to past releases
🧠 Intelligence: The model scores 52 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This puts it on par with DeepSeek R1 0528, which has a much larger 685B parameter architecture. ServiceNow’s model scores particularly well within important behaviors for enterprise agents, such as instruction following (62% in IFBench, ahead of gpt-oss-20B, reasoning) and multi-turn conversions & tool use (68% in 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, ahead of gpt-oss-120B, reasoning). This makes it particularly well-suited to agentic use cases, which was likely a focus given ServiceNow is active in the enterprise agents space
⚙️ Output tokens and verbosity: The model produces a large number of output tokens even among reasoning models - using ~110M combined reasoning and answer tokens to complete the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
🖥️ Access: No serverless inference providers are yet serving the model, but it is available now on Hugging Face for local inference or self-deployment. The model has been released under an MIT license, supporting unrestricted commercial use
ℹ️ Context window: The model has a native context window of 128k tokens.
Congratulations to
@ServiceNowRSRCH on this impressive result!