Benchmarks × real traffic-weighted prices

The honest leaderboard
for LLM APIs.

The honest leaderboard for LLM APIs. Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis and llm-stats.com, measured against what people actually pay on OpenRouter. Models beaten on both price and quality get grayed out.

updated 2026-10-05 283 models tracked 14 worth buying 200 superseded 121 dropped
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Budget
Ling 3.0 Flash
21.3 pts · $0.023/M
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Best value
GPT-6 Luna Pro (max)
41.0 pts · $0.340/M
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Best smart
GPT-6 Astra Pro (xhigh)
54.1 pts · $14.23/M
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Smartest
GPT-6 Astra Pro (max)
54.5 pts · top quality
01 · The market

Price you actually pay vs. real quality

Every model on one plane — upper-left wins. Click a dot to open it on OpenRouter.

◆ Frontier (best at their price) (14)Near-frontier (close) (69)Grayed (superseded) (200)
02 · Value ladder

The best model at every price level

Every Pareto frontier point is a rung — anything not on a rung has a cheaper, better alternative.

Price blended◆ Best pickPerfPerf/$Close alternatives
$0.023/M
$0.021 in / $0.063 out
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash 🪙 budget21.3946/$
$0.024/M
$0.021 in / $0.062 out
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL27.61170/$
$0.073/M
$0.015 in / $1.28 out
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 073133.6462/$Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (high) · Upstage: Solar Mini 4 · inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (non-reasoning) · Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (thinking) · OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (high) · OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (low) · Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (non-reasoning) · NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning · Inception: Mercury 2.5 · OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (high) · Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 · OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (medium)
$0.160/M
$0.15 in / $0.47 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash38.9243/$Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash · Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (high) · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (high) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (medium) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (high) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (medium) · Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (low) · Upstage: Solar Pro 4 · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (low)
$0.340/M
$0.10 in / $7.53 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (max) 💰 value41.0121/$OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (xhigh) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (max) · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (high) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (xhigh) · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (non-reasoning) · MiniMax: MiniMax M3
$0.484/M
$0.43 in / $0.87 out
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro43.089/$DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) · Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium) · Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) · Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (low) · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh)
$1.38/M
$1.25 in / $4.25 out
Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)43.732/$Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 (max) · Tencent: Hy4 preview · Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) · Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium) · Sakana: Sakana Namazu · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (max) · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) · Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (low)
$2.46/M
$2.00 in / $16.34 out
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (medium)49.920/$Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) · OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (low) · Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (max) · Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B · OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro (medium)
$2.72/M
$2.00 in / $24.40 out
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (high)52.219/$OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (max) · OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (xhigh) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro (max) · Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro (xhigh) · Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro (high) · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh)
$14.23/M
$10.00 in / $141.21 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (xhigh) ⚡ smart54.14/$OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (max) · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (max) · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (high) · Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (high) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (medium) · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (medium) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (medium) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro (low) · Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (max) · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (low) · Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (max)
03 · Lab leaderboard

Top labs by their strongest model

Premium = price of the lab's top model vs. the median lab's top model (×). 1× = going rate.

#LabBest modelPerfTop pricePremium◆ Mentions
1OpenAIGPT-6 Astra Pro (max)54.5$16.10/M4.4×◆◆◆◆◆ 10
2AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5 (max)54.2$16.55/M4.5×◆◆◆◆◆ 8
3QwenQwen3.8 Max (0902)47.7$2.55/M0.7×◆◆◆ 3
4MetaMuse Spark 1.3 (max)45.3$1.42/M0.4×◆◆◆ 3
5Z.aiGLM 5.3 (max)43.0$2.43/M0.7×◆◆ 2
6XiaomiMiMo-V2.6-Pro43.0$0.484/M0.1×◆◆◆ 3
7Moonshot AIKimi K3 (max)42.3$3.65/M1.0×—
8SpaceXAIGrok 4.6 (high)41.1$3.68/M1.0×—
03b · Lab momentum

Who's pulling ahead

Level = lab's top composite. Gained = cumulative perf raise across its releases this year.

◆ Pulling aheadleading & gaining
7
  • Anthropictop 54.2 · +36.4
  • Qwentop 47.7 · +38.9
  • OpenAItop 54.5 · +28.1
  • Z.aitop 43.0 · +28.3
  • Moonshot AItop 42.3 · +17.6
  • Xiaomitop 43.0 · +16.8
  • DeepSeektop 40.1 · +19.1
⬆️ Catching upgaining, not yet leading
1
  • poolsidetop 31.5 · +17.4
🎯 Leading, settledon top, flat
4
  • Metatop 45.3 · +12.4
  • Tencenttop 41.0 · +15.4
  • Googletop 39.5 · +15.3
  • SpaceXAItop 41.0 · +12.9
🛑 Stalledneither leading nor moving
11
  • Upstagetop 27.1 · +15.9
  • MiniMaxtop 29.4 · +12.1
  • NVIDIAtop 24.4 · +15.7
  • inclusionAItop 27.6 · +6.3
  • ByteDance Seedtop 23.2 · +10.3
  • Thinking Machinestop 26.4 · +1.4
  • Mistral AItop 16.0 · +7.7
  • StepFuntop 19.4 · +2.6
  • Amazontop 15.5 · +2.8
  • Inception Labstop 14.4 · +0.0
  • IBM Granitetop 9.2 · +0.6
04 · All models

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