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LLM Leaderboard

Benchmark scores, prices and release dates for today’s language models, fetched again every night. It answers one question: which model should get the work.

How these are picked
  1. Smartest — highest Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
  2. Best for coding — highest Artificial Analysis Coding Index.
  3. Best for agents — highest Artificial Analysis Agentic Index.
  4. People's choice — highest Arena Elo on at least 5,000 votes, never an effort variant.
  5. Frontier on a budget — cheapest blended price within 5 index points of the smartest.
  6. Grunt work — cheapest blended price at three quarters of the smartest model's index.
  7. Fastest that still thinks — most output tokens per second above that same three-quarters floor.
  8. Newest at the frontier — most recently released of the top ten by index.
  9. Best open weights — highest index among models whose weights are published.
  10. Open-weights gap — how long ago the closed frontier reached the best open model's score.

Open weights means OpenRouter lists a Hugging Face id for the model, closed means it lists the model without one. A model it does not list takes Epoch AI's answer where Epoch rates it, and is unknown otherwise. Cards are picked from one row per model, batch tiers and announced rows left out, and the filters do not move them.

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How these are scored

    Every score runs from 0 to 100. A benchmark scored in percent counts as its percent. An arena rating counts as the share of votes the model would be expected to win against that arena's median model. A category is the mean of its benchmarks, and Overall is the mean of the categories. A score needs at least half of its parts. A missing part is filled in from the eight fully measured models that score closest to this one on the parts it has: the model's mean over those parts, moved by how far the eight score on the missing part above or below theirs, and never past the best or worst score measured on that part. A score with a part filled in is an estimate: it carries ≈, it is in italics, and its tooltip says which part was filled in and with what.

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