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LLM leaderboard 2026:
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229 LLM benchmarks from 43 benchmark publishers (77 of them feed the index), reconciled into one set of standings once a day (the run starts at 22:03 UTC). BenchLeader runs no evaluations of its own: it lines up what Artificial Analysis, LMArena, Epoch AI, LiveBench, SWE-bench and the rest have already measured, so every model is judged on all of the evidence at once, at the reasoning effort it was actually run at.

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As of 21 Oct 2026, BenchLeader ranks Claude Opus 5.5 first at 72.7, ahead of Gemini 4 Argon (71.0) and Muse Wonder Full (70.7).

  • GLM 5.3 (max) cached input price moved from $0.30/M to $0.26/M (13% down).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) input price moved from $0.75/M to $0.38/M (49% down).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) output price moved from $3.75/M to $1.88/M (50% down).
  • GLM 5.3 Flash cached input price moved from $0.03/M to $0.03/M (13% down).
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Standings21 Oct 2026
  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5maxAnthropic · $8.00/M72.7▲ 0.1
  2. 2Gemini 4 ArgonhighGoogle · $4.00/M71.0▼ 0.3
  3. 3Muse Wonder FullmaxMeta70.7▲ 2.1
  4. 4GPT-6 AstramaxOpenAI · $20.00/M70.6▲ 0.9
  5. 5Claude Fable 5.1maxAnthropic · $20.00/M70.6▲ 0.7
  6. 6GPT-6.1 SolmaxOpenAI · $4.00/M70.0▲ 0.9
  7. 7Claude Sonnet 5.5maxAnthropic · $4.00/M69.5▲ 2.2
  8. 8Claude Fable 5maxAnthropic · $20.00/M69.4▲ 0.6
  9. 9Claude Opus 5maxAnthropic · $10.00/M68.9▲ 1.0
  10. 10GPT-5.6 SolmaxOpenAI · $8.00/M68.0▲ 0.7
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Model
  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5max72.795$0.32
  2. 2Gemini 4 Argonhigh71.083$0.16
  3. 3GPT-6 Astramax70.664$0.80
  4. 4Claude Fable 5.1max70.669$0.80
  5. 5GPT-6.1 Solmax70.055$0.16
  6. 6Muse Spark 1.3max67.2128$0.09
  7. 7Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh64.5144$0.06
  8. 8MiMo-V2.6-Pro64.250$0.03
  9. 9NewDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max63.1209$0.02
  10. 10GLM 5.3 Flash62.877$0.01
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