Leaderboards
The same models, ranked by whichever question you are actually asking. Every board is rebuilt daily from the latest data. For the overall ranking, see the LLM leaderboard 2026.
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This month’s picks: Best LLM overall (October 2026) · Best LLM for coding (October 2026) · Best LLM for agents (October 2026) · Best cheap LLM (October 2026) · Best open-weights LLM (October 2026) · Fastest LLM (October 2026)
Quality against…
Showing 25 models: the frontier no other model beats on both axes, the top eight by index, the best model in each price band, and anything new in the last seven days. Up and to the left is better: more quality for less money. Hover for details, click to open a model.
- Claude Opus 5.5 (max)
- Gemini 4 Argon (high)
- GPT-6 Astra (max)
- Claude Fable 5.1 (max)
- GPT-6.1 Sol (max)
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max)
- Claude Fable 5 (max)
- Claude Opus 5 (max)
- Muse Spark 1.3 (max)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max)
- GLM 5.3 Flash
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (xhigh)
- Muse Spark Open (xhigh)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash (max)
- Muse Spark Open 816B A42B (xhigh)
- Beam 1.0
- Step 3.5 Flash
- Ling 3.0 Flash
- Qwen3.5 Flash
- Qwen3.5-4B (thinking)
- Granite 4.2 3B
Straight answers
The questions people arrive with, answered from today’s data. Top five each; the board behind it is one click away.
- Best under $2/M
Highest quality with a blended price below $2 per million tokens.
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Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh$1.50/M
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro$0.55/M
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Gemini 3.7 Flashhigh$0.76/M
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max$0.53/M
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GLM 5.3 Flash$0.24/M
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- Best under $0.50/M
Highest quality for budget workloads, below fifty cents per million tokens.
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GLM 5.3 Flash$0.238/M
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MiniMax-M3.1-Flash$0.262/M
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Claude Haiku 5.5xhigh$0.200/M
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DeepSeek V4 Flashmax$0.175/M
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next$0.230/M
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- Fast and good
At least 100 tokens per second with an index above 55.
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K2 Horizon 375B A23B1115 tok/s - 2
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent356 tok/s - 3
Muse Spark 1.2xhigh315 tok/s
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GPT-5.4 Minixhigh276 tok/s
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flashmax240 tok/s
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- Quick answers
Index above 55 and the answer starts within two seconds.
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Gemma 4 26B A4B0.5 s
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Claude Sonnet 4.60.8 s
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Claude Sonnet 4.5high1.1 s
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Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20thinking1.2 s
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Claude Opus 4.6high1.2 s
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- Best open weights
Highest-quality models you can download and run yourself.
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Kimi K3max64.9
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro64.2
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GLM 5.3max63.6
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Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B63.2
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max63.1
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- Cheapest 1M context
Context window of at least one million tokens, ordered by price.
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Qwen3.5 Flash$0.09/M
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning$0.10/M
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Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta$0.15/M
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Qwen-Plus$0.16/M
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DeepSeek V4 Flashmax$0.17/M
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- Best for coding
Highest coding category score.
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Claude Opus 5.5max82.2
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Claude Fable 5.1max75.0
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GPT-6 Astramax74.0
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Claude Fable 5max73.8
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GPT-6.1 Solmax72.3
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- Best for agents
Highest agents-and-tools category score.
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Grok 4.1 Fastthinking70.5 - 2
o370.3
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Claude Sonnet 5.5max69.8
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DeepSeek V4 Flashmax67.2
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GPT-5.6 Solmax66.5
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Price cuts
Listed blended prices that fell by more than 5% in the last 90 days.
| Model | Before | After | Change | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.205/M | $0.187/M | −9% | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.119/M | $0.023/M | −81% | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.252/M | $0.132/M | −48% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $2.11/M | $0.319/M | −85% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.322/M | $0.119/M | −63% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.941/M | $0.853/M | −9% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $1.71/M | $0.779/M | −54% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $2.15/M | $1.48/M | −31% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.121/M | $0.107/M | −12% | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| $4.89/M | $4.47/M | −9% | 15 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.312/M | $0.209/M | −33% | 15 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.317/M | $0.252/M | −21% | 13 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.398/M | $0.315/M | −21% | 13 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.135/M | $0.121/M | −10% | 13 Oct 2026 | |
| $1.44/M | $1.29/M | −10% | 12 Oct 2026 | |
| $2.11/M | $0.518/M | −76% | 12 Oct 2026 | |
| $1.71/M | $0.779/M | −54% | 12 Oct 2026 | |
| $2.15/M | $1.48/M | −31% | 12 Oct 2026 | |
| $1.79/M | $1.44/M | −20% | 11 Oct 2026 | |
| $0.297/M | $0.215/M | −28% | 11 Oct 2026 |
Core boards
Six ways to rank the same models. Each opens as a chart plus a searchable, sortable table.
- Quality: the BenchLeader Index
Composite of every quality benchmark, normalised per benchmark and averaged per category. Requires results on at least five benchmarks across two categories.
- Value: quality per dollar
BenchLeader Index divided by the blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output). Higher means more quality for the money.
- Speed: output tokens per second
Median output throughput measured across healthy providers over the last 30 minutes of live traffic (OpenRouter).
- Latency: time to first answer
Median seconds until the answer starts, including any reasoning phase (Artificial Analysis), or time to first streamed token where that is all we have.
- Cost: blended price per million tokens
First-party list price where published, blended at 3 input tokens per output token.
- Token efficiency: quality per dollar of real work
BenchLeader Index divided by what it cost Artificial Analysis to run its whole Intelligence Index on that configuration. Unlike price per token this counts the tokens a model actually burns, so a model that thinks at length scores lower than its sticker price suggests.
- Cost to run a full benchmark suite
What Artificial Analysis actually paid to run its whole Intelligence Index on each configuration: a fixed batch of work, billed at list price. The spread between models is far wider than their per-token prices, because verbose reasoning multiplies the token count.
- Response time: seconds to a complete answer
Median seconds from request to the last token, reasoning included (Artificial Analysis). Time to first answer tells you when output starts; this tells you when it ends.
- Context window
Maximum context length in tokens as listed by the provider.
Per task
Prices per million tokens hide the shape of real work. These boards price and time five representative workloads from each model’s list price, output speed and time to first token.
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Boards |
|---|---|---|---|
Chat reply A short assistant turn: 400 tokens of context in, 300 tokens out. | 400 | 300 | CostTime |
Summarize a 30-page report 12,000 tokens of document in, a 600-token summary out. | 12,000 | 600 | CostTime |
Code edit 6,000 tokens of files and instructions in, a 1,500-token diff out. | 6,000 | 1,500 | CostTime |
Agentic coding session One long tool-using loop: 60,000 tokens in across turns, 4,000 tokens out. | 60,000 | 4,000 | CostTime |
Structured extraction 2,000 tokens of source text in, 200 tokens of JSON out. | 2,000 | 200 | CostTime |