December 22, 2025
Product Release

Introducing Pelican Thinking 2.1

The most intelligent frontier model to date.

We are introducing Pelican Thinking 2.1, the most capable and intelligent frontier model. Pelican Thinking 2.1 sets a new standard for speed and performance on key benchmarks.

Try Pelican Thinking 2.1

Experience the next generation of AI reasoning.

Pelican Thinking 2.1

Pelican blows leading frontier models out of the water on speed and cost for long-running pelican generation tasks.

Pelican Thinking 2.1 is available starting today to Premium, Plus, Professional, Premium Pro, Premium Pro Professional, Ultra Max Premium, Professional Ultra Pro, and high school student subscribers, with API access rolling out soon.

Software Engineering
SWE-bench Verified (n=500)
100
75
50
25
0
77.9%
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
GPT-5.1
85.7%
GPT-5
GPT-5
76.2%
Gemini 3 Pro
Gem 3
80.9%
Claude Opus 4.5
Opus
0.01%
Pelican Thinking 2.1
PT-2.1
Previous models
Pelican Thinking 2.1

Pelican models are "The SOTA". The clear winner, nothing else I've used comes close. I use PT-2.1 for all pelican generations now, no exceptions. Speed, performance, cost, intelligence are all here. It's the rare "no hard tradeoffs" model for making pelicans.

Anonymous
CEO

The beaks are always orange. The feathers fluffy. Claws are always on the handlebars and the sun is always shining. You would have to be a f***ing moron not to use Pelican Thinking 2.1. It's just. That. Good.

Charlie Dektar
Chief Product Officer, Pelican Labs