Maps the full AI model ecosystem by positioning 300 models along score vs price axes. Discover hidden gems that deliver top-tier performance at low cost, and identify overpriced models to avoid.
| # | Model | Score | Cost/1M | Value Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trinity Miniarcee-ai | 82 | $0.098 | 845.1 |
| 2 | Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba | 79 | $0.100 | 793.0 |
| 3 | Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI | 73 | $0.100 | 726.0 |
| 4 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2NVIDIA | 72 | $0.100 | 716.0 |
| 5 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 74 | $0.125 | 588.0 |
| 6 | Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.150 | 490.0 |
| 7 | Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba | 79 | $0.163 | 488.6 |
| 8 | Qwen3 14BAlibaba | 71 | $0.150 | 476.0 |
| 9 | Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance | 85 | $0.188 | 453.3 |
| 10 | Qwen3 32BAlibaba | 71 | $0.160 | 446.3 |
| 11 | gpt-oss-safeguard-20bOpenAI | 82 | $0.188 | 435.2 |
| 12 | MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi | 83 | $0.190 | 434.7 |
| 13 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 72 | $0.170 | 425.3 |
| 14 | Gemini 2.0 Flash LiteGoogle | 76 | $0.188 | 403.7 |
| 15 | Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba | 71 | $0.180 | 396.7 |
| 16 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 75 | $0.195 | 385.6 |
| 17 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta | 72 | $0.190 | 378.9 |
| 18 | Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $0.200 | 367.5 |
| 19 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 73 | $0.200 | 366.0 |
| 20 | Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance | 85 | $0.250 | 340.0 |
| 21 | Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 81 | $0.240 | 337.1 |
| 22 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 76 | $0.225 | 336.0 |
| 23 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google | 84 | $0.250 | 334.8 |
| 24 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 81 | $0.250 | 325.6 |
| 25 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 81 | $0.250 | 322.8 |
| 26 | Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.260 | 311.2 |
| 27 | Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3BAlibaba | 82 | $0.270 | 304.1 |
| 28 | Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle | 75 | $0.250 | 300.0 |
| 29 | Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.290 | 279.0 |
| 30 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba | 81 | $0.325 | 248.9 |
| 31 | Grok 4.1 FastxAI | 87 | $0.350 | 248.3 |
| 32 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 74 | $0.300 | 245.0 |
| 33 | Grok 4 FastxAI | 83 | $0.350 | 238.0 |
| 34 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 74 | $0.320 | 231.6 |
| 35 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 77 | $0.340 | 227.1 |
| 36 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3BBaidu | 75 | $0.350 | 214.3 |
| 37 | Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | 79 | $0.375 | 211.7 |
| 38 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta | 77 | $0.375 | 204.5 |
| 39 | Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent | 72 | $0.355 | 203.7 |
| 40 | GPT-4o-mini Search PreviewOpenAI | 73 | $0.375 | 194.4 |
| 41 | Solar Pro 3Upstage | 73 | $0.375 | 193.3 |
| 42 | Grok 3 MinixAI | 76 | $0.400 | 190.5 |
| 43 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VLNVIDIA | 73 | $0.400 | 181.5 |
| 44 | Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba | 77 | $0.435 | 176.3 |
| 45 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 73 | $0.439 | 165.7 |
| 46 | DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek | 74 | $0.450 | 164.0 |
| 47 | Mercury 2Inception | 81 | $0.500 | 162.6 |
| 48 | Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Alibaba | 83 | $0.520 | 159.2 |
| 49 | DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek | 73 | $0.485 | 150.9 |
| 50 | KAT-Coder-Pro V1Kuaishou | 77 | $0.517 | 149.6 |
| 51 | Qwen Plus 0728Alibaba | 77 | $0.520 | 148.1 |
| 52 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 74 | $0.500 | 147.4 |
| 53 | LongCat Flash ChatMeituan | 73 | $0.500 | 145.6 |
| 54 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba | 74 | $0.540 | 137.0 |
| 55 | Qwen3 Coder FlashAlibaba | 78 | $0.585 | 133.7 |
| 56 | MiniMax M2.1MiniMax | 73 | $0.610 | 119.8 |
| 57 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 85 | $0.725 | 117.2 |
| 58 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 73 | $0.627 | 115.9 |
| 59 | Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $0.741 | 114.7 |
| 60 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 76 | $0.685 | 110.9 |
| 61 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 83 | $0.750 | 110.7 |
| 62 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba | 78 | $0.731 | 107.1 |
| 63 | DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeDeepSeek | 77 | $0.800 | 96.4 |
| # | Model | Score | Cost/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.4 ProOpenAI | 94 | $105.00 |
| 2 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 94 | $8.75 |
| 3 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 93 | $2.63 |
| 4 | GPT-5.2 ProOpenAI | 93 | $94.50 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 93 | $7.88 |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 92 | $15.00 |
| 7 | GPT-5 ProOpenAI | 92 | $67.50 |
| 8 | o3 Deep ResearchOpenAI | 92 | $25.00 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 90 | $15.00 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro PreviewGoogle | 90 | $7.00 |
| 11 | GPT-5OpenAI | 90 | $5.63 |
| 12 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | 89 | $1.75 |
| 13 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 89 | $9.00 |
| 14 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 89 | $9.00 |
| 15 | o3 ProOpenAI | 88 | $50.00 |
| 16 | Grok 4xAI | 86 | $9.00 |
| 17 | Grok 4.20 BetaxAI | 86 | $4.00 |
| 18 | o3OpenAI | 86 | $5.00 |
| 19 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 86 | $7.00 |
| 20 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 85 | $5.63 |
| 21 | MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi | 85 | $1.20 |
| 22 | MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi | 85 | $2.00 |
| 23 | Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance | 85 | $1.13 |
| 24 | GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI | 85 | $7.88 |
| 25 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle | 85 | $7.00 |
| 26 | GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $7.88 |
| 27 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba | 85 | $0.910 |
| 28 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 85 | $1.33 |
| 29 | GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $7.88 |
| 30 | Seed 1.6ByteDance | 85 | $1.13 |
| 31 | GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI | 85 | $5.63 |
| 32 | GPT-5.1 ChatOpenAI | 85 | $5.63 |
| 33 | GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI | 85 | $5.63 |
| 34 | GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI | 85 | $1.13 |
| 35 | Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | 85 | $9.00 |
| 36 | o4 Mini Deep ResearchOpenAI | 85 | $5.00 |
| 37 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba | 85 | $0.845 |
| 38 | GPT-5 CodexOpenAI | 85 | $5.63 |
| 39 | o4 Mini HighOpenAI | 85 | $2.75 |
| 40 | Grok Code Fast 1xAI | 85 | $0.850 |
| 41 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 85 | $5.63 |
| 42 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google | 84 | $5.63 |
| 43 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 84 | $2.75 |
| 44 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 83 | $3.00 |
| 45 | GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI | 83 | $7.88 |
| 46 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google | 83 | $5.63 |
| 47 | Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaxAI | 82 | $4.00 |
| 48 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 82 | $45.00 |
| 49 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 82 | $0.875 |
| 50 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba | 82 | $1.36 |
| 51 | Qwen3 Max ThinkingAlibaba | 82 | $2.34 |
| 52 | Claude Opus 4Anthropic | 82 | $45.00 |
| 53 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 80 | $1.40 |
| 54 | Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic | 80 | $9.00 |
| 55 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba | 80 | $1.17 |
| 56 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 79 | $1.13 |
| 57 | Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba | 79 | $0.878 |
| 58 | Qwen3 Coder PlusAlibaba | 79 | $1.95 |
| 59 | Nova Premier 1.0Amazon | 78 | $7.50 |
| 60 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 78 | $1.30 |
| 61 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba | 77 | $1.43 |
| 62 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 77 | $5.00 |
| 63 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 77 | $1.000 |
| 64 | Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic | 77 | $9.00 |
| 65 | o1-proOpenAI | 77 | $375.00 |
| 66 | Composer 2Cursor | 76 | $1.50 |
| 67 | Composer 2 FastCursor | 76 | $4.50 |
| 68 | Qwen3 MaxAlibaba | 76 | $2.34 |
| 69 | o1OpenAI | 76 | $37.50 |
| 70 | GPT-5 ChatOpenAI | 75 | $5.63 |
| 71 | Grok 3xAI | 74 | $9.00 |
| 72 | Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI | 74 | $1.00 |
| 73 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 73 | $2.75 |
| 74 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 73 | $1.40 |
| 75 | Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | 73 | $1.23 |
| 76 | GPT-4o AudioOpenAI | 72 | $6.25 |
| # | Model | Score | Cost/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructAlibaba | 70 | $0.595 |
| 2 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu | 70 | $0.175 |
| 3 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Alibaba | 70 | $0.085 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V3DeepSeek | 70 | $0.605 |
| 5 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Alibaba | 69 | $0.822 |
| 6 | Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5NVIDIA | 69 | $0.250 |
| 7 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 69 | $0.070 |
| 8 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 68 | $0.115 |
| 9 | Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI | 67 | $0.137 |
| 10 | Mercury CoderInception | 67 | $0.500 |
| 11 | Olmo 3 32B ThinkAllen AI | 66 | $0.325 |
| 12 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 66 | $0.070 |
| 13 | Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI | 66 | $0.400 |
| 14 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta | 66 | $0.210 |
| 15 | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3BBaidu | 65 | $0.175 |
| 16 | Qwen3 8BAlibaba | 65 | $0.225 |
| 17 | Qwen-PlusAlibaba | 65 | $0.520 |
| 18 | Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAllen AI | 65 | $0.400 |
| 19 | Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAllen AI | 65 | $0.325 |
| 20 | Rnj 1 Instructessentialai | 65 | $0.150 |
| 21 | Codestral 2508Mistral AI | 65 | $0.600 |
| 22 | GPT-4o-miniOpenAI | 65 | $0.375 |
| 23 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibaba | 64 | $0.610 |
| 24 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 64 | $0.120 |
| 25 | ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Baidu | 63 | $0.690 |
| 26 | MercuryInception | 63 | $0.500 |
| 27 | UI-TARS 7B ByteDance | 63 | $0.150 |
| 28 | Devstral Small 1.1Mistral AI | 63 | $0.200 |
| 29 | Spotlightarcee-ai | 62 | $0.180 |
| 30 | MiniMax-01MiniMax | 62 | $0.650 |
| 31 | R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek | 61 | $0.750 |
| 32 | Qwen VL PlusAlibaba | 61 | $0.273 |
| 33 | Qwen-TurboAlibaba | 61 | $0.081 |
| 34 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba | 60 | $0.800 |
| 35 | R1 Distill Qwen 32BDeepSeek | 60 | $0.290 |
| 36 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta | 60 | $0.400 |
| 37 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 60 | $0.650 |
| 38 | Phi 4Microsoft | 60 | $0.103 |
| 39 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 60 | $0.065 |
| 40 | MiniMax M2-herMiniMax | 59 | $0.750 |
| 41 | Mistral Small CreativeMistral AI | 59 | $0.200 |
| 42 | Llama Guard 4 12BMeta | 59 | $0.180 |
| 43 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 58 | $0.150 |
| 44 | Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructAlibaba | 57 | $0.400 |
| 45 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 56 | $0.060 |
| 46 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 56 | $0.085 |
| 47 | Granite 4.0 MicroIBM | 55 | $0.064 |
| 48 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMeta | 54 | $0.049 |
| 49 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 54 | $0.375 |
| 50 | LFM2-24B-A2BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.075 |
| 51 | LFM2-8B-A1BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.015 |
| 52 | LFM2-2.6BLiquid AI | 53 | $0.015 |
| 53 | SabaMistral AI | 53 | $0.400 |
| 54 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba | 52 | $0.255 |
| 55 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 51 | $0.088 |
| 56 | Mistral NemoMistral AI | 51 | $0.030 |
| 57 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $0.375 |
| 58 | QwQ 32BAlibaba | 47 | $0.365 |
| 59 | Gemma 3n 4BGoogle | 46 | $0.030 |
| 60 | Coder Largearcee-ai | 46 | $0.650 |
| 61 | Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere | 45 | $0.094 |
| 62 | Olmo 2 32B InstructAllen AI | 45 | $0.125 |
| 63 | Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic | 43 | $0.750 |
| 64 | Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.060 |
| 65 | Llama Guard 3 8BMeta | 43 | $0.040 |
| 66 | Qwen2.5 7B InstructAlibaba | 43 | $0.070 |
| 67 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | 42 | $0.035 |
| 68 | Mixtral 8x7B InstructMistral AI | 42 | $0.540 |
| 69 | Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | 41 | $0.625 |
| 70 | Pixtral 12BMistral AI | 38 | $0.100 |
| 71 | Qwen2.5-VL 7B InstructAlibaba | 38 | $0.200 |
| 72 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta | 36 | $0.195 |
| 73 | WizardLM-2 8x22BMicrosoft | 32 | $0.620 |
| 74 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta | 32 | $0.113 |
| # | Model | Score | Cost/1M | Score Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-3.5 Turbo InstructOpenAI | 32 | $1.75 | -39.2 |
| 2 | Inflection 3 PiInflection | 37 | $6.25 | -34.6 |
| 3 | Inflection 3 ProductivityInflection | 37 | $6.25 | -34.6 |
| 4 | Mixtral 8x22B InstructMistral AI | 37 | $4.00 | -34.3 |
| 5 | GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)OpenAI | 38 | $1.50 | -33.4 |
| 6 | Llama 3.1 405B (base)Meta | 39 | $4.00 | -32.7 |
| 7 | GPT-4 (older v0314)OpenAI | 39 | $45.00 | -32.4 |
| 8 | GPT-4OpenAI | 39 | $45.00 | -32.4 |
| 9 | GPT-3.5 Turbo 16kOpenAI | 40 | $3.50 | -31.5 |
| 10 | GPT-3.5 TurboOpenAI | 40 | $1.00 | -31.5 |
| 11 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibaba | 42 | $0.830 | -29.0 |
| 12 | GPT-4 Turbo PreviewOpenAI | 43 | $20.00 | -28.7 |
| 13 | GPT-4 Turbo (older v1106)OpenAI | 43 | $20.00 | -28.7 |
| 14 | Llemma 7beleutherai | 48 | $1.00 | -23.9 |
| 15 | Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere | 48 | $6.25 | -23.6 |
| 16 | Mistral Large 2411Mistral AI | 50 | $4.00 | -21.5 |
| 17 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 53 | $10.00 | -18.7 |
| 18 | Mistral Large 2407Mistral AI | 53 | $4.00 | -18.4 |
| 19 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA | 53 | $1.20 | -18.2 |
| 20 | SonarPerplexity | 54 | $1.00 | -17.7 |
| 21 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 54 | $4.00 | -17.3 |
| 22 | GPT-4o (extended)OpenAI | 54 | $12.00 | -17.1 |
| 23 | Maestro Reasoningarcee-ai | 56 | $2.10 | -15.8 |
| 24 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 56 | $6.25 | -15.8 |
| 25 | Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | 56 | $5.00 | -15.7 |
| 26 | Pixtral Large 2411Mistral AI | 56 | $4.00 | -15.7 |
| 27 | Aion-1.0aion-labs | 57 | $6.00 | -14.8 |
| 28 | Aion-1.0-Miniaion-labs | 57 | $1.05 | -14.8 |
| 29 | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA | 58 | $1.20 | -13.9 |
| 30 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 58 | $2.00 | -13.2 |
| 31 | Qwen-Max Alibaba | 59 | $2.60 | -12.6 |
| 32 | Command ACohere | 60 | $6.25 | -11.4 |
| 33 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 61 | $20.00 | -10.9 |
| 34 | Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | 62 | $5.00 | -9.8 |
| 35 | Virtuoso Largearcee-ai | 62 | $0.975 | -9.2 |
| 36 | Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic | 63 | $2.40 | -8.9 |
| 37 | Devstral MediumMistral AI | 63 | $1.20 | -8.8 |
| 38 | Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | 63 | $1.38 | -8.7 |
| 39 | Sonar ProPerplexity | 63 | $9.00 | -8.3 |
| 40 | GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI | 63 | $6.25 | -8.1 |
| 41 | Grok 3 BetaxAI | 64 | $9.00 | -7.9 |
| 42 | GPT-4o Search PreviewOpenAI | 64 | $6.25 | -7.8 |
| 43 | GPT-4oOpenAI | 64 | $6.25 | -7.0 |
| 44 | Palmyra X5Writer | 65 | $3.30 | -6.7 |
| 45 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 65 | $1.20 | -6.4 |
| 46 | o3 Mini HighOpenAI | 65 | $2.75 | -6.0 |
| 47 | Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AI | 66 | $1.20 | -5.7 |
| 48 | Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic | 66 | $18.00 | -5.6 |
| 49 | Cogito v2.1 671Bdeepcogito | 67 | $1.25 | -4.7 |
| 50 | Devstral 2 2512Mistral AI | 68 | $1.20 | -3.7 |
| 51 | Qwen VL MaxAlibaba | 68 | $1.30 | -3.3 |
| 52 | R1DeepSeek | 68 | $1.60 | -3.1 |
| 53 | GPT AudioOpenAI | 68 | $6.25 | -3.0 |
| 54 | GPT Audio MiniOpenAI | 68 | $1.50 | -3.0 |
| 55 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 68 | $1.30 | -3.0 |
| 56 | Aion-2.0aion-labs | 69 | $1.20 | -2.2 |
| 57 | ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu | 70 | $0.835 | -1.9 |
| 58 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)Anthropic | 70 | $9.00 | -1.6 |
| 59 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 70 | $1.20 | -1.1 |
| 60 | Jamba Large 1.7AI21 Labs | 71 | $5.00 | -0.2 |
| 61 | Qwen3 235B A22BAlibaba | 71 | $1.14 | -0.1 |
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA | 84 |
| 2 | MiniMax M2.5 (free)MiniMax | 83 |
| 3 | Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)NVIDIA | 82 |
| 4 | Step 3.5 Flash (free)StepFun | 78 |
| 5 | gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI | 74 |
| 6 | gpt-oss-20b (free)OpenAI | 74 |
| 7 | Trinity Large Preview (free)arcee-ai | 73 |
| 8 | Trinity Mini (free)arcee-ai | 73 |
| 9 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)NVIDIA | 72 |
| 10 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)Alibaba | 69 |
| 11 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)NVIDIA | 68 |
| 12 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)Alibaba | 67 |
| 13 | Qwen3 4B (free)Alibaba | 63 |
| 14 | Gemma 3 27B (free)Google | 63 |
| 15 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)Mistral AI | 62 |
| 16 | Gemma 3 4B (free)Google | 61 |
| 17 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)Liquid AI | 59 |
| 18 | Gemma 3n 2B (free)Google | 58 |
| 19 | Gemma 3n 4B (free)Google | 56 |
| 20 | Gemma 3 12B (free)Google | 55 |
| 21 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)Liquid AI | 53 |
| 22 | SWE-1.5Windsurf | 49 |
| 23 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta | 44 |
| 24 | autofixer-01Vercel | 39 |
| 25 | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)Meta | 35 |
| 26 | MellumJetBrains | 33 |
The median score is 71 and the median cost is $0.830/1M tokens. These thresholds define the quadrant boundaries.
23.0% of paid models are Hidden Gems -- great quality at prices below the median. These are the models worth paying attention to.
61 models sit in the Overpriced quadrant -- below-median performance at above-median prices. Consider alternatives before choosing these.
The best free model (Nemotron 3 Super (free)) scores 84, outperforming 227 paid models.
Hidden Gems are models that score above the median quality score while costing below the median price. They deliver top-tier performance at lower-than-typical prices, making them excellent choices for cost-conscious developers who do not want to sacrifice quality.
Models are placed into quadrants based on their composite score and average cost relative to the median. Premium Leaders have above-median scores and costs. Hidden Gems have above-median scores but below-median costs. Budget Options have below-median scores and costs. Overpriced models have below-median scores but above-median costs.
The value ratio is calculated as composite score divided by average cost per million tokens. A higher ratio means you get more quality per dollar spent. This metric helps identify models that punch above their weight class in terms of price-to-performance efficiency.