LLM leaderboard 2026:
every benchmark, one ranking
Every benchmark. One leaderboard.
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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Claude Opus 5.5maxAnthropic · $8.00/M72.7▲ 0.1
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Gemini 4 ArgonhighGoogle · $4.00/M71.0▼ 0.3
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Muse Wonder FullmaxMeta70.7▲ 2.1
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GPT-6 AstramaxOpenAI · $20.00/M70.6▲ 0.9
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Claude Fable 5.1maxAnthropic · $20.00/M70.6▲ 0.7
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GPT-6.1 SolmaxOpenAI · $4.00/M70.0▲ 0.9
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Claude Sonnet 5.5maxAnthropic · $4.00/M69.5▲ 2.2
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Claude Fable 5maxAnthropic · $20.00/M69.4▲ 0.6
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Claude Opus 5maxAnthropic · $10.00/M68.9▲ 1.0
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GPT-5.6 SolmaxOpenAI · $8.00/M68.0▲ 0.7
Best LLMs by use case, October 2026
One ranked list per job, rebuilt daily from independent benchmarks.
- Best LLM overall (October 2026)Leader today: Claude Opus 5.5
- Best LLM for coding (October 2026)Leader today: Claude Opus 5.5
- Best LLM for agents (October 2026)Leader today: Grok 4.1 Fast
- Best cheap LLM (October 2026)Leader today: Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Best open-weights LLM (October 2026)Leader today: Kimi K3
- Fastest LLM (October 2026)Leader today: K2 Horizon 375B A23B
NewThis week
Release watchMiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMax, released 19 Oct 2026#9261.9
Mercury 3 Inception, released 19 Oct 2026awaiting results
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 maxDeepSeek, released 17 Oct 2026#7263.1
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 NVIDIA, first measured 17 Oct 2026awaiting results
Beam 1.0 501B A23B Reflection, first measured 17 Oct 2026awaiting resultsSeed2 1 Pro ByteDance, first measured 17 Oct 2026awaiting results
And 10 more on Release watch.
Recently added
New AI model releases this week- Aya Vision 32B 20 Oct
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 19 Oct
- Mercury 3 19 Oct
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 17 Oct
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 17 Oct
- Seed2 1 Pro 17 Oct
- Salesforce Launa Omni 1 17 Oct
- Beam 1.0 16 Oct
- GLM-Legal 16 Oct
- Muse Spark Open 15 Oct
- Muse Spark Open 816B A42B 15 Oct
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 15 Oct
The frontier board
The 10 models that matter this week, read three ways. Click a lane to re-order.
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Claude Opus 5.5max72.795$0.32
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Gemini 4 Argonhigh71.083$0.16
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GPT-6 Astramax70.664$0.80
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Claude Fable 5.1max70.669$0.80
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GPT-6.1 Solmax70.055$0.16
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Muse Spark 1.3max67.2128$0.09
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Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh64.5144$0.06
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro64.250$0.03
- 9New
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max63.1209$0.02
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GLM 5.3 Flash62.877$0.01
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