Head-to-head comparison
K2 Horizon 32B (IFM) and Intern S2 Preview 397B (Internlm) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 15 September 2026
As of 15 September 2026, Intern S2 Preview 397B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#88 vs #91).
Evidence: global-corpus-prior over 176 held-out anchors (49%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 8 rows (51%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 8 rows; optimism haircut 1.3 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.4 up toward the measured corpus · global-corpus-prior over 176 held-out anchors (65%); 1 specialist-board observation at 1.3% support (35%); shrunk 6.9 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Intern S2 Preview 397B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 15 September 2026: #88 against #91. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.
Both publish a —-token context window.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
K2 Horizon 32B: Open weights. Intern S2 Preview 397B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for K2 Horizon 32B and 0 for Intern S2 Preview 397B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 15 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.