Head-to-head comparison
AReaL SEA 235B A22B (InclusionAI) and UI Venus 2 9B (InclusionAI) 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 9 September 2026
As of 9 September 2026, AReaL SEA 235B A22B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#79 vs #101); and AReaL SEA 235B A22B ships open weights.
Evidence: finetune of qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507 · finetune (100%) · finetune of qwen/qwen3.5-9b · finetune (100%). Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Neither model has a published result on a public benchmark board ModelCap tracks yet.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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AReaL SEA 235B A22B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #79 against #101. 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.
AReaL SEA 235B A22B: Open weights. UI Venus 2 9B: License unverified. 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 AReaL SEA 235B A22B and 0 for UI Venus 2 9B, 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 9 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.