H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 (H2O.ai, Qwen3.5-4B fine-tune, stock vLLM + open shim)

Data: JevBench v1.6.1, published 2026-10-06

Capability 75.0 · rank #5 of 92 on the open-weights board

Last measured: 2026-10-04 · measurement release: v1.6.1

apache-2.0

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4Bsource

intelligence

60.0

calibration

90.0

speed

92.6

cost

60.3

Composite (secondary)

72.5 · Composite rank #1

Cost and measurement conditions

$0.021 per 1,000 decisions (estimated)

ESTIMATE (self-hosted open weights, no public tariff): cost per 1,000 decisions measured for H2O-Lightning-4B v1.0 on the v1.5 pool (same base, shim and token path) carried for v1.1, the practice of every Qwen3.5-4B row on this board; reference deepinfra:Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B frozen at the 25 Sep cut-off. Cross-check: v1.1's own v1.6 input tokens on the common cost basis give USD 0.0204 per 1,000 (within 3 %)

Measured p50 latency: 0.029 s (on-GPU, no network, loopback; not directly comparable with API latency, which we time end to end from our measuring host, network included)

Ranking and cap use: 0.21 s (est. incl. network (2x + 150 ms))

Self-hosted model: measured p50 0.029 s on-GPU, no network (timed on our GPU over loopback). Not directly comparable with API latency, which we time end to end from our measuring host, network included. The ranking and latency cap use the same estimate for every self-hosted row: 2 × measured + 150 ms = 0.21 s. Model authors can ask us to time a hosted endpoint instead (on request).

x2 + 0.15 s (assumption, not measured)

evaluator-owned Lium GPU pod, 1x NVIDIA RTX 5090, official vLLM 0.30.0 image + the author's open standard-library shim (h2o_lightning_shim.py) as published on the model card, offline (all credentials unset), driven over loopback only by the JevBench client; label-free inputs; pod destroyed afterwards; JevBench add-request (GitHub #181), measured 4 Oct 2026

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