SUNLIGHT 2

A fast frontier model for everyday coding, search and interactive edits.
Balanced speed and quality — 3× cheaper, 200K context.

Announcements

SUNLIGHT 2
Aug 20, 2026
Sunlight 2 released
Our fastest frontier model — 3× cheaper than Sunlight 2 Pro, with strong SWE-bench and HumanEval scores. Ideal for autocomplete, search and fast agents.
Sunlight 2
Aug 20, 2026
Sunlight 2 Model Card
Official model card for Sunlight 2. Documents training data, evaluation methodology, benchmarks and safety results.
METEOR × OCP
Jul 14, 2026
Meteor × Open Compute — faster inference
We partnered to accelerate training and inference, bringing Sunlight 2 to all Meteor users with < 300ms median latency.

Use cases

Autocomplete
Sub-300ms completions with deep repo context. 40% acceptance rate.
Code search
Natural language search across your codebase with semantic ranking.
Fast agents
Cheap enough to run on every keystroke, smart enough to plan edits.

Overview

Sunlight 2 is Meteor's workhorse — optimized for speed without sacrificing frontier quality. Trained on 12T tokens of code and text, with a 200K context window and aggressive distillation, it hits 92.1% on HumanEval and 62.8% on SWE-bench Verified while being 3× cheaper than our Pro model. Ideal for interactive use: Tab autocomplete, Cmd-K edits, and background agents that need to be fast and precise.

200K
context
cheaper than Pro
<300ms
median latency

Foundation

Built on the same architecture as Sunlight 2 Pro but distilled and fine-tuned for latency. Uses grouped-query attention, 8k native generation and tool-use pre-training. Trained with RL on real Meteor trajectories: 400k agent episodes with test-driven rewards. Fully evaluated for safety with no regression on our harm benchmarks.

Benchmarks

Sunlight 2 vs best competitor at similar price. Higher is better.

SWE-bench Verified
62.8%
54.2%
HumanEval
92.1%
90.2%
MMLU
86.7%
86.1%
GPQA Diamond
52.3%
49.8%
AIME 2024
38.5%
30.1%
LiveCodeBench
61.4%
55.9%
Sunlight 2 Best competitor
BenchmarkSunlight 2GPT-4oClaude 3.5 Sonnet
SWE-bench Verified62.8%48.1%54.2%
HumanEval (pass@1)92.1%90.2%89.7%
MMLU86.7%86.1%85.4%
LiveCodeBench61.4%53.2%55.9%
Cost / 1M tokens$1.20$3.50$3.00

Surfaces

Meteor IDE
Tab, Cmd-K, Agent and inline edits. Default for all users.
API
api.meteor.sh/v1 • OpenAI-compatible. Streaming + tools.
CLI
meteor agent --model sunlight-2 for terminal agents.

FAQ

When should I use Sunlight 2 vs Pro?
Use Sunlight 2 for interactive work and cost-sensitive agents. Switch to Pro for long-running tasks, vision, and hardest repos where quality matters over speed.
Is Sunlight 2 available via API?
Yes — same API as Pro, just set model: 'sunlight-2'. Pricing is $1.20 / $4.80 per 1M input/output tokens.
Does it support vision?
Limited vision support. For heavy visual work, use Sunlight 2 Pro which has frontier vision.