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.
Every model on one plane — upper-left wins. Click a dot to open it on OpenRouter.
Every Pareto frontier point is a rung — anything not on a rung has a cheaper, better alternative.
Premium = price of the lab's top model vs. the median lab's top model (×). 1× = going rate.
| # | Lab | Best model | Perf | Top price | Premium | ◆ Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 54.5 | $16.10/M | 4.4× | ◆◆◆◆◆ 10 | ||
| 2 | 54.2 | $16.55/M | 4.5× | ◆◆◆◆◆ 8 | ||
| 3 | 47.7 | $2.55/M | 0.7× | ◆◆◆ 3 | ||
| 4 | 45.3 | $1.42/M | 0.4× | ◆◆◆ 3 | ||
| 5 | 43.0 | $2.43/M | 0.7× | ◆◆ 2 | ||
| 6 | 43.0 | $0.484/M | 0.1× | ◆◆◆ 3 | ||
| 7 | 42.3 | $3.65/M | 1.0× | — | ||
| 8 | 41.1 | $3.68/M | 1.0× | — |
Level = lab's top composite. Gained = cumulative perf raise across its releases this year.
Click headers to sort · grayed rows are models to skip · click a lab to filter.