Concepts

Available models

Tessera’s base catalogue covers chat, embeddings, reranking, transcription and speech with open models and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Included catalogue

Every tier can access the same catalogue. Tiers differ by capacity, SLA, support, context and priority, not by hiding models behind a premium plan.

ModelEndpointPrimary useLicense
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/v1/chat/completionsFast, high-volume chat: assistants, RAG, classification, extraction and summariesApache 2.0
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/v1/chat/completionsThe most capable: agents with tools, code, multi-step reasoning and imagesApache 2.0
Qwen3-Embedding-8B/v1/embeddingsSemantic search and retrievalApache 2.0
Qwen3-Reranker-4B/v1/rerankSecond-stage reranking for RAGApache 2.0
nvidia/canary-1b-v2/v1/audio/transcriptionsTranscription with diarization; the most accurate on SpanishCC-BY-4.0
nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3/v1/audio/transcriptionsTranscription with diarization; the better of the two on English and the fastestCC-BY-4.0
whisper-large-v3 (+ turbo)/v1/audio/transcriptionsTranscription for compatibility: Catalan, 99 languages and translation into EnglishMIT
Kokoro 82M TTS/v1/audio/speechVoice for IVR and agentsApache 2.0

Chat models and aliases

There are two chat models, and the difference is not that one does text and the other images: one is the fast one and the other the most capable. Qwen3.8-27B is the smartest: a dense model that uses all of its 27B parameters on every token, it nearly doubles Qwen3.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (34 versus 18), and it is the one for agents that chain tools, code, multi-step reasoning and complex instructions; it also reads images. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a mixture-of-experts that activates only 3B parameters per token: it answers sooner and handles more volume, and it is the best option for chat, RAG, classification, extraction and summaries. Each one ships with two aliases: the base name answers in direct mode and the -thinking suffix enables extended reasoning.

LiteralModeInput
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3BDirect (default)Text
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-thinkingThinkingText
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27BDirectText + image
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-thinkingThinkingText + image

Qwen3.6 versus Qwen3.8

Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3BQwen/Qwen3.8-27B
ProfileThe fast one: lower latency, more volumeThe most capable: smarter on hard tasks
ArchitectureMixture-of-experts: 35B total, 3B active per tokenDense: all 27B active on every token
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index1834
GPQA Diamond (scientific reasoning)86.089.2
LiveCodeBench v6 (code)80.490.3
SpeedFaster per request and with more requests at onceSlower per request
InputTextText and image
Best forChatbots and assistants, RAG, classification, extraction, summaries and large batchesAgents with tools, code, multi-step tasks, complex instructions, invoices, scanned documents, screenshots and photos

Audio models

Transcription has four literals. nvidia/canary-1b-v2 and nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 are the recommended ones: they run on GPU, transcribe long real conversations better than Whisper, accept files of up to 4 hours and separate speakers in multi-speaker conversations with diarize=true. Both cover 25 European languages. whisper-large-v3 and whisper-large-v3-turbo stay available for compatibility. Speech synthesis is kokoro-82m, also on GPU.

LiteralWhat forDetail
nvidia/canary-1b-v2Spanish and other known European languages6.6% difference on real Spanish calls; language required
nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3English, unknown language, high volume7.6% on real English interviews; ×300–400 real time
whisper-large-v3, whisper-large-v3-turboExisting integrations, Catalan, translationNo diarization; up to 25 MB per file
kokoro-82mSpeech synthesisAbout 0.2 s per short sentence; voices in Spanish, English and 6 more languages

Practical compatibility

  • Use the official OpenAI SDK and change base_url to https://api.tesseraai.cloud/v1.
  • Keep your messages, tools, response_format and streaming structures where the endpoint supports them.
  • Commercial model aliases can map internally to preserve contractual stability.

Model freeze and upgrades

Contracts can freeze a model family for 12 months. Upgrades are offered as opt-in to avoid silent changes in quality, token cost or latency.