Benchmark explorer.
LiveBench Overall2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) · Higher is better
Source ↗Method
Equal mean of available suites; seven suites in this release. Each suite is a single-run mean.
Score × cost
Where performance meets price
LiveBench · 1M input + 250K output tokens · uncached USD
22 priced resultsPareto frontier
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 ↗87.99% LiveBench · $22.50 workload · Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouter
Evaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $10.00 input / $50.00 output per 1M tokens · amazon-bedrock.
Numbers match the model key. Shared positions show an index range.
Model key Score / workload
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning28.69% / $0.055
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash78.04% / $0.0684
- GLM-5.3-Flash70.61% / $0.0817
- OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna69.4% / $0.1125
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-101779.2% / $0.135
- Google: Gemma 4 31B41.53% / $0.185
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash68.79% / $0.2675
- Qwen3.8-27B62.66% / $0.3515
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp63.63% / $0.3773
- GLM-5.360.74% / $0.429
- Reflection: Beam 1.0 501B A23B55.5% / $0.50
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro74.87% / $0.5828
- Step-5-Preview62.01% / $1.675
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol85.41% / $2.25
- Google: Gemini 4 Argon84.1% / $2.25
- Meta: Muse Spark Open57.57% / $2.3125
- Kimi-K363.39% / $2.575
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B64.24% / $3.50
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.582.46% / $4.50
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.586.53% / $9.00
- OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra86.14% / $11.25
- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.187.99% / $22.50
Pareto frontier
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningScore28.69%Workload cost$0.055Darkbloom · via OpenRouter · darkbloom/int4 · quantization=int4Evaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $0.025 input / $0.12 output per 1M tokens · darkbloom/int4 · quantization=int4.
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashScore78.04%Workload cost$0.0684Baidu · via OpenRouter · baidu/fp8 · quantization=fp8Evaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $0.0342 input / $0.1368 output per 1M tokens · baidu/fp8 · quantization=fp8.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017Score79.2%Workload cost$0.135Decart · via OpenRouter · decart/fp4 · quantization=fp4Evaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $0.09 input / $0.18 output per 1M tokens · decart/fp4 · quantization=fp4.
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 SolScore85.41%Workload cost$2.25OpenAI · via OpenRouter · openai/flex · tier=flex · prompt ≤ 272000 tokensEvaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $1.00 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens · openai/flex · tier=flex · prompt ≤ 272000 tokens.
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5Score86.53%Workload cost$9.00Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouter · amazon-bedrockEvaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $4.00 input / $20.00 output per 1M tokens · amazon-bedrock.
- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1Score87.99%Workload cost$22.50Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouter · amazon-bedrockEvaluation: Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suites. Price: $10.00 input / $50.00 output per 1M tokens · amazon-bedrock.
Frontier: no result is cheaper with an equal or better score, or equally priced with a better score. Each point uses its lowest generally available workload price from one endpoint; evaluation and provider configurations remain visible.
| # | Model | LiveBench | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1anthropic | 87.99% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $10.00 in / $50.00 out/ 1M tokens · Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouteramazon-bedrock | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 2 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5anthropic | 86.53% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $4.00 in / $20.00 out/ 1M tokens · Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouteramazon-bedrock | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 3 | OpenAI: GPT-6 Astraopenai | 86.14% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $5.00 in / $25.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenAI · via OpenRouteropenai/flex · tier=flex · prompt ≤ 272000 tokens | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 4 | OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Solopenai | 85.41% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $1.00 in / $5.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenAI · via OpenRouteropenai/flex · tier=flex · prompt ≤ 272000 tokens | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 5 | Google: Gemini 4 Argongoogle | 84.1% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $1.00 in / $5.00 out/ 1M tokens · Google AI Studio · via OpenRoutergoogle-ai-studio/flex · tier=flex | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 6 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 83.61% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 7 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5anthropic | 82.46% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $2.00 in / $10.00 out/ 1M tokens · Amazon Bedrock · via OpenRouteramazon-bedrock | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 82.09% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 9 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 81.91% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 10 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017deepseek-ai | 79.2% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.07 in / $0.50 out/ 1M tokens · Relace · via OpenRouterrelace | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 11 | Muse Wonder 1.0Meta | 78.1% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 12 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek | 78.04% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.0239 in / $0.375 out/ 1M tokens · OpenInference · via OpenRouteropen-inference/fp4 · quantization=fp4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 13 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 76.77% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 14 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 76.26% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 15 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 74.99% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 16 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Proxiaomi | 74.87% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.387 in / $0.783 out/ 1M tokens · DeepInfra · via OpenRouterdeepinfra/fp8 · quantization=fp8 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 17 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 74.76% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 18 | Grok 4.6xAI | 74.64% | Effort: xhigh · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 19 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 74.63% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 20 | Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | 74.49% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 21 | Grok 4.7xAI | 74.09% | Effort: xhigh · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 22 | GLM-5.3-Flashzai-org | 70.61% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.0517 in / $0.12 out/ 1M tokens · OpenInference · via OpenRouteropen-inference/fp4 · quantization=fp4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 23 | Grok 4.5xAI | 70.06% | Effort: xhigh · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 24 | OpenAI: GPT-6 Lunaopenai | 69.4% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.05 in / $0.25 out/ 1M tokens · OpenAI · via OpenRouteropenai/flex · tier=flex · prompt ≤ 272000 tokens | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 25 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flashqwen | 68.79% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.15 in / $0.47 out/ 1M tokens · Alibaba · via OpenRouteralibaba/us-east-1 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 26 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 68.7% | Effort: xhigh · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 27 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 67.34% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 28 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 67.19% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 29 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 66.09% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 30 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 65.09% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 31 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95Bqwen | 64.24% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $2.00 in / $6.00 out/ 1M tokens · Alibaba · via OpenRouteralibaba | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 32 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Expdeepseek-ai | 63.63% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.2156 in / $0.6468 out/ 1M tokens · DeepInfra · via OpenRouterdeepinfra/fp8 · quantization=fp8 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 33 | Kimi-K3moonshotai | 63.39% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.238 in / $16.00 out/ 1M tokens · Wafer · via OpenRouterwafer · quantization=mxfp4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 34 | Qwen3.8-27BQwen | 62.66% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.039 in / $1.25 out/ 1M tokens · Chutes · via OpenRouterchutes/fp8 · quantization=fp8 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 35 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 62.4% | Effort: xhigh · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 36 | Step-5-Previewstepfun-ai | 62.01% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $1.00 in / $2.70 out/ 1M tokens · DeepInfra | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 37 | GLM-5.3zai-org | 60.74% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.079 in / $1.40 out/ 1M tokens · Wafer · via OpenRouterwafer/us · quantization=fp4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 38 | Meta: Muse Spark Openmeta | 57.57% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $1.25 in / $4.25 out/ 1M tokens · baseten · via Hugging Face | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 39 | smaug-flashUnknown | 57.54% | Effort not specified · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 40 | Reflection: Beam 1.0 501B A23Breflection | 55.5% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.25 in / $1.00 out/ 1M tokens · Nebius · via OpenRouternebius/fp8 · quantization=fp8 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 41 | Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle | 54.91% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 42 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 53.74% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 43 | InklingThinking Machines | 51.91% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 44 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA | 51.47% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 45 | Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | 47.7% | Effort: high · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 46 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 46.04% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 47 | Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle | 41.53% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.10 in / $0.34 out/ 1M tokens · CoreWeave · via OpenRoutercoreweave/fp4 · quantization=fp4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 48 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 40.83% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |
| 49 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightningnvidia | 28.69% | Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result | $0.025 in / $0.12 out/ 1M tokens · Darkbloom · via OpenRouterdarkbloom/int4 · quantization=int4 | Result ↗Oct 18, 2026 |