Every new AI model’s benchmark chart
says “we win.”
The maker draws it, and most of the gaps on it are noise. We read each release and tell you which differences are real — and which you should ignore.
Three things a leaderboard won’t tell you — live from today’s data
Kimi K3 leads by 15.4 points on Toolathlon-Verified — outside the noise band, worth acting on.
LiveCodeBench is saturated — rankings here are unreliable regardless of the gap.
The maker’s own chart ran 5.6 points above the independent rerun. Every number here is tagged with who actually ran it.
Scores & pricing
All models →Why no single score? →| Pricein / out per 1M | Reasoning±2 is noise | Terminal ops±10.6 is noise | Long-horizon coding±9.5 is noise | Multi-tool chores±9.7 is noise | Professional work±3.2 is noise | Bug fixingsaturated · not ranked | Expert science Q&Asaturated · not ranked | Contest codingsaturated · not ranked | Compositional visual reasoning±9.2 is noise | Composite score across 7 domains±2.7 is noise | Competition mathematicscontaminated · not ranked | Spreadsheet & document analysis±11.2 is noise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) DeepSeek | $1.32 / $3.96 | 41.0independent | 78.7independent | 62.7self-reported | 74.1self-reported | 25.7self-reported | 96.4independent | 92.4independent | 87.5independent | 61.3independent | 77.4independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI | $4.00 / $20.00 | 49.5independent | 88.0independent | 73.0independent | Not sourced yet | 30.6independent | 96.2independent | 95.2independent | 82.6independent | 92.5independent | 81.0independent | Not sourced yet | 47.5independent |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google DeepMind | $2.00 / $12.00 | 47.0independent | 65.8independent | Not sourced yet | 61.1independent | 16.4independent | 78.8independent | 95.5independent | 88.5independent | Not sourced yet | 77.0independent | 94.7independent | 41.3independent |
| Kimi K3 Moonshot AI | $3.00 / $15.00 | 46.9independent | 80.9independent | 69.0independent | 76.5independent | 28.3independent | 93.4independent | 92.9independent | 87.2independent | 60.4independent | 79.2independent | 97.0independent | 38.8independent |
| Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba | $2.00 / $6.00 | 43.1independent | 88.8independent | 57.0independent | 72.5self-reported | 27.0independent | 85.6independent | 93.7independent | 87.8independent | Not sourced yet | 78.5independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | $5.00 / $25.00 | 54.9independent | 89.1independent | 74.0independent | Not sourced yet | 32.2independent | 97.0independent | 93.4independent | 89.0independent | 90.4independent | 80.1independent | Not sourced yet | 53.8independent |
| GLM-5.3 Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | $1.40 / $4.40 | 42.3independent | 83.9independent | 69.0independent | 73.0self-reported | Not sourced yet | 95.4independent | 91.7independent | 80.5independent | Not sourced yet | 76.1independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic | $2.00 / $10.00 | 41.3independent | 74.6independent | 54.0independent | 71.6independent | Not sourced yet | 79.6independent | 88.9independent | 82.4independent | Not sourced yet | 76.0independent | Not sourced yet | 46.3independent |
| Grok 4.6 xAI (SpaceXAI) | $2.00 / $6.00 | 42.9independent | 88.4independent | 67.0independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 95.6independent | 94.7independent | 88.2independent | Not sourced yet | 78.0independent | Not sourced yet | 41.3independent |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | $0.30 / $1.20 | Not sourced yet | 53.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 75.0independent | 92.7independent | 82.2independent | Not sourced yet | 67.3independent | Not sourced yet | 10.0independent |
| GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | $0.20 / $1.20 | 39.5independent | 80.9independent | 67.0independent | Not sourced yet | 30.3independent | 93.0independent | 91.7independent | Not sourced yet | 59.6independent | 73.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GLM-5.3-Flash Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | $0.15 / $0.50 | 39.9independent | 84.3independent | 63.0independent | 78.4self-reported | 26.3self-reported | Not sourced yet | 91.2independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 71.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Alibaba | — | 38.0independent | 86.1independent | 58.7self-reported | 73.5self-reported | 24.3self-reported | Not sourced yet | 92.3independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 76.2independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | $10.00 / $50.00 | 59.1independent | 91.4independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 93.4independent | 90.5independent | 90.0independent | 83.4independent | Not sourced yet | 57.5independent |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash Google DeepMind | $0.75 / $3.75 | 47.8independent | 87.6independent | 74.0independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 80.0independent | 94.4independent | 89.5independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs) | $1.25 / $4.25 | 48.7independent | 84.3independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 32.2independent | Not sourced yet | 93.5independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 81.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GPT-6 Astra OpenAI | $10.00 / $50.00 | 54.7independent | 87.4independent | 74.0independent | Not sourced yet | 34.2independent | Not sourced yet | 96.1independent | Not sourced yet | 95.0independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 51.3independent |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | $0.30 / $1.20 | 39.1self-reported | 74.5independent | 74.2self-reported | Not sourced yet | 31.8self-reported | Not sourced yet | 90.9self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Step 5 Preview StepFun | $1.00 / $2.70 | 46.5independent | 85.0self-reported | 67.7self-reported | 74.1self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 93.5self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi | $0.43 / $0.87 | 49.4independent | 67.8independent | 71.9self-reported | 76.9self-reported | 31.6self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | $0.14 / $0.28 | Not sourced yet | 76.4independent | 67.9self-reported | 73.6self-reported | 27.6self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Grok 4.7 xAI (SpaceXAI) | $2.00 / $6.00 | 43.1independent | 73.4independent | 71.0self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 77.4independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic | $4.00 / $20.00 | 61.4independent | 87.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 38.2independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 83.2independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GPT-6 Sol OpenAI | $2.00 / $10.00 | 47.9independent | 83.2independent | 69.0independent | Not sourced yet | 32.2independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 79.3independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $0.10 / $0.50 | 38.5independent | 73.0independent | 66.6self-reported | Not sourced yet | 25.0independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 59.3independent | 72.0independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI | $2.00 / $10.00 | 52.9independent | Not sourced yet | 69.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 81.6independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Tencent Hy4 preview Tencent | $0.83 / $2.50 | 43.4self-reported | 55.1independent | 64.3self-reported | 74.1self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 92.3self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | $2.00 / $10.00 | 55.0independent | 83.2independent | 71.0self-reported | 77.8self-reported | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet | 77.8independent | Not sourced yet | Not sourced yet |
INDEPENDENT = a third party ran the benchmark itself (tbench.ai, vals.ai, Artificial Analysis, Snorkel…).
SELF-REPORTED = the vendor’s own number, not yet replicated.
Every cell links to its source — methodology.
There is no total score. We won’t collapse 12 different benchmarks into one number that pretends a 0.5-point gap means something — see a head-to-head for which gaps here are real.