Value
The best model is rarely the right one to buy. See what each step up in spend actually gets you, then price out your own workload.
Capability against cost
Cost per task is what a model really spent to finish one benchmark task, reasoning tokens included — a fairer yardstick than list price, because two models with the same price can think for very different lengths.
- On the efficient frontier
- Beaten by a cheaper model
View as table
| Model | Cost per task | Intelligence | Frontier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.015 | 11.3 | Yes |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.057 | 17.5 | Yes |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.068 | 38.1 | Yes |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro | $0.13 | 46.3 | Yes |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.19 | 22.2 | — |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.21 | 43.4 | — |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.25 | 41.8 | — |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | $0.27 | 39.5 | — |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | $0.37 | 39.8 | — |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | $0.50 | 14.2 | — |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.51 | 29.2 | — |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.54 | 25.8 | — |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro | $0.67 | 36 | — |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $0.72 | 51.8 | Yes |
| Qwen3.8-27B | $1.01 | 33.7 | — |
| Mistral Large 4 | $1.13 | 38.4 | — |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $1.24 | 40.9 | — |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $1.30 | 29.7 | — |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | $1.60 | 48.1 | — |
| Gemini 4 Argon | $1.99 | 52.6 | Yes |
| Kimi K3 | $2.00 | 43.6 | — |
| GLM-5.3 | $2.01 | 44.8 | — |
| GPT-6 Astra | $3.26 | 52.7 | Yes |
| Grok 4.7 | $3.74 | 46.5 | — |
| Qwen3.8-Max | $5.41 | 45.4 | — |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $5.46 | 56 | Yes |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $5.98 | 57.6 | Yes |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $7.63 | 53.4 | — |
The efficient frontier
For each of these, nothing cheaper scores higher on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Read down the list to see what each step up in spend buys.
- Mistral Small 4
Cheapest model on the frontier
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 11.3
- Cost per task
- $0.015
- Muse Glimmer 30B
+6.2 Intelligence for 3.8× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 17.5
- Cost per task
- $0.057
- GPT-6 Luna
+20.6 Intelligence for 1.2× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 38.1
- Cost per task
- $0.068
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro
+8.2 Intelligence for 2× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 46.3
- Cost per task
- $0.13
- GPT-6.1 Sol
+5.5 Intelligence for 5.4× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 51.8
- Cost per task
- $0.72
- Gemini 4 Argon
+0.7 Intelligence for 2.7× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 52.6
- Cost per task
- $1.99
- GPT-6 Astra
+0.1 Intelligence for 1.6× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 52.7
- Cost per task
- $3.26
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
+3.3 Intelligence for 1.7× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 56
- Cost per task
- $5.46
- Claude Opus 5.5
+1.6 Intelligence for 1.1× the cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 57.6
- Cost per task
- $5.98
Estimate your monthly bill
Enter your token volumes to rank every model by what it would cost you at list price.
27 models · estimated monthly cost at list price, cheapest first
Anthropic · Intelligence 43.4 · $4.00 in + $4.00 out
$8.00per month
OpenAI · Intelligence 38.1 · $4.00 in + $4.00 out
$8.00per month
Alibaba · Intelligence 39.8 · $6.00 in + $3.76 out
$9.76per month
Z.ai · Intelligence 41.8 · $6.00 in + $4.00 out
$10.00per month
Mistral AI · Intelligence 11.3 · $6.00 in + $4.80 out
$10.80per month
DeepSeek · Intelligence 39.5 · $12.00 in + $9.60 out
$21.60per month
MiniMax · Intelligence 29.2 · $12.00 in + $9.60 out
$21.60per month
Xiaomi · Intelligence 46.3 · $17.40 in + $6.96 out
$24.36per month
Google · Intelligence 22.2 · $12.00 in + $20.00 out
$32.00per month
Alibaba · Intelligence 33.7 · $20.00 in + $24.00 out
$44.00per month
Google · Intelligence 40.9 · $30.00 in + $30.00 out
$60.00per month
Moonshot AI · Intelligence 25.8 · $38.00 in + $32.00 out
$70.00per month
Meta · Intelligence 48.1 · $50.00 in + $34.00 out
$84.00per month
DeepSeek · Intelligence 36 · $52.80 in + $31.68 out
$84.48per month
Mistral AI · Intelligence 38.4 · $54.40 in + $33.44 out
$87.84per month
Z.ai · Intelligence 44.8 · $56.00 in + $35.20 out
$91.20per month
Mistral AI · Intelligence 14.2 · $60.00 in + $60.00 out
$120per month
SpaceXAI · Intelligence 46.5 · $80.00 in + $48.00 out
$128per month
Alibaba · Intelligence 45.4 · $80.00 in + $48.00 out
$128per month
Anthropic · Intelligence 56 · $80.00 in + $80.00 out
$160per month
OpenAI · Intelligence 51.8 · $80.00 in + $80.00 out
$160per month
Google · Intelligence 52.6 · $80.00 in + $80.00 out
$160per month
Google · Intelligence 29.7 · $80.00 in + $96.00 out
$176per month
Moonshot AI · Intelligence 43.6 · $120 in + $120 out
$240per month
Anthropic · Intelligence 57.6 · $160 in + $160 out
$320per month
Anthropic · Intelligence 53.4 · $400 in + $400 out
$800per month
OpenAI · Intelligence 52.7 · $400 in + $400 out
$800per month
First-party list prices, no volume or batch discounts. Reasoning tokens are billed as output, so a model running at high effort will spend more output tokens than your visible answers suggest — count them in the output figure.