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title: "Compare alternatives to R1 0528 · Undominated.ai"
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description: "25 alternatives score at least as high as R1 0528 and cost no more under at least one listed workload. 22 preserve recorded capabilities; 3 have named trade-offs."
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# Compare alternatives to R1 0528 · Undominated.ai

> 25 alternatives score at least as high as R1 0528 and cost no more under at least one listed workload. 22 preserve recorded capabilities; 3 have named trade-offs.

# Alternatives to R1 0528

DeepSeek · LMArena 1427.9 · $0.920/M on a balanced workload · prices as of 2026-10-06

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## 22 models are higher-scoring or cheaper, with neither dimension worse.

Of the 144 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, **25** score at least as high as R1 0528 and cost no more under at least one listed workload, with at least one of those dimensions improved. **22** match or beat its recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. **3** have a recorded capability loss, named on every row.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built only while a candidate improves score or price without worsening the other under a listed workload. When that comparison no longer holds, it is not generated.

## Where it holds

| Workload | R1 0528 $/M | Recorded capabilities preserved | Recorded capability losses |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Balanced | $0.920 | 16 | 2 |
| Summarise | $0.584 | 21 | 3 |
| Chat | $1.17 | 18 | 3 |
| Code gen | $1.51 | 14 | 2 |
| Agentic | $0.752 | 22 | 3 |

Workload mixes are defined on the [methodology page](/methodology/). Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

## What you would be replacing

| Intelligence | 1427.9 |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 163K |
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Extended reasoning | yes |

Preserving recorded capabilities requires matching or beating these fields. [Full record for R1 0528](/models/deepseek__deepseek-r1-0528/), or [check R1 0528 against the whole catalogue](/check/deepseek__deepseek-r1-0528/).

## Recorded capabilities preserved 22

Each option has a higher score or a lower price, with neither dimension worse under the listed workloads. It matches or beats R1 0528 on recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning.

| # | Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) Xiaomi | 1491 +63.1 | $0.540 | Balanced −41% Summarise −43% Chat −59% Code gen −56% Agentic −68% |
| 2 | [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) Z.ai | 1469.6 +41.7 | $0.238 | Balanced −74% Summarise −77% Chat −78% Code gen −77% Agentic −83% |
| 3 | [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) DeepSeek | 1462.5 +34.6 | $0.182 | Balanced −80% Summarise −89% Chat −79% Code gen −76% Agentic −86% |
| 4 | [MiMo-V2.5-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.5-pro/) Xiaomi | 1465 +37.1 | $0.544 | Balanced −41% Summarise −43% Chat −59% Code gen −56% Agentic −68% |
| 5 | [MiMo-V2.6-Flash](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-flash/) Xiaomi | 1456.4 +28.5 | $0.175 | Balanced −81% Summarise −82% Chat −87% Code gen −86% Agentic −89% |
| 6 | [Qwen3.7 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.7-plus/) Qwen | 1454.6 +26.7 | $0.560 | Balanced −39% Summarise −49% Chat −46% Code gen −42% Agentic −59% |
| 7 | [Hy3](/models/tencent__hy3/) Tencent | 1440.7 +12.8 | $0.231 | Balanced −75% Summarise −79% Chat −78% Code gen −76% Agentic −82% |
| 8 | [Qwen3.8 27B](/models/qwen__qwen3.8-27b/) Qwen | 1440.7 +12.8 | $0.562 | Balanced −39% Summarise −69% Chat −28% Code gen −19% Agentic −51% |
| 9 | [Gemma 4 26B A4B](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/) Google | 1433.9 tie | $0.127 | Balanced −86% Summarise −88% Chat −87% Code gen −86% Agentic −89% |
| 10 | [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/) DeepSeek | 1432.1 tie | $0.113 | Balanced −88% Summarise −87% Chat −91% Code gen −91% Agentic −92% |
| 11 | [Qwen3.6 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/) Qwen | 1436.7 tie | $0.731 | Balanced −21% Summarise −30% Chat −17% Code gen −14% Agentic −24% |
| 12 | [Qwen3.5 397B A17B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-397b-a17b/) Qwen | 1438 tie | $0.878 | Balanced −5% Summarise −17% Chat under 1% less Agentic −9% |
| 13 | [GLM 4.7](/models/z-ai__glm-4.7/) Z.ai | 1435.5 tie | $0.738 | Balanced −20% Summarise −36% Chat −28% Code gen −21% Agentic −45% |
| 14 | [MiniMax M3](/models/minimax__minimax-m3/) MiniMax | 1432.1 tie | $0.485 | Balanced −47% Summarise −56% Chat −54% Code gen −50% Agentic −64% |
| 15 | [GPT-5.6 Luna](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna/) OpenAI | 1431 tie | $0.450 | Balanced −51% Summarise −66% Chat −53% Code gen −48% Agentic −68% |
| 16 | [Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite](/models/google__gemini-3.5-flash-lite/) Google | 1434.7 tie | $0.850 | Balanced −8% Summarise −43% Chat −6% Agentic −38% |
| 17 | [GLM 5.3](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3/) Z.ai | 1471.4 +43.5 | $0.346 summarise | Summarise −41% Agentic −14% |
| 18 | [GLM 5.2](/models/z-ai__glm-5.2/) Z.ai | 1470.4 +42.5 | $0.422 summarise | Summarise −28% Agentic −8% |
| 19 | [Kimi K2.6](/models/moonshotai__kimi-k2.6/) Moonshot AI | 1455.5 +27.6 | $0.460 summarise | Summarise −21% Chat −2% Agentic −28% |
| 20 | [GLM 5](/models/z-ai__glm-5/) Z.ai | 1446.3 +18.4 | $1.15 chat | Chat −2% Agentic −21% |
| 21 | [DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-pro/) DeepSeek | 1445.2 +17.3 | $0.502 summarise | Summarise −14% Agentic −7% |
| 22 | [Kimi K2.5](/models/moonshotai__kimi-k2.5/) Moonshot AI | 1445.2 +17.3 | $0.578 summarise | Summarise −1% Agentic −12% |

## Alternatives with recorded capability losses 3

These improve score or price without worsening the other under the listed workloads, but reduce at least one recorded capability. Read the last column before switching.

| Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under | Recorded capability loss |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) Google | 1443.4 +15.5 | $0.205 | Balanced −78% Summarise −74% Chat −79% Code gen −80% Agentic −76% | 33K → 16K max output |
| [GLM 4.6](/models/z-ai__glm-4.6/) Z.ai | 1439.9 +12 | $0.760 | Balanced −17% Summarise −32% Chat −27% Code gen −21% Agentic −44% | 33K → 16K max output |
| [GLM 4.5](/models/z-ai__glm-4.5/) Z.ai | 1430.3 tie | $0.540 summarise | Summarise −7% Chat −7% Agentic −27% | 164K → 131K context |

## What this compares, and what it leaves out

 - Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.47 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked *tie* rather than an improvement — see [significance bands](/significance/).
 - 204 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
 - Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
 - Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
 - Models with no higher-scoring or cheaper alternative that is no worse on the other axis are on the [value frontier](/frontier/). Models with such an alternative are [listed here](/alternatives/).

## Continue your investigation

 - [Check requirements](/check/)
- [Compare exact differences](/compare/)
- [Set a quality floor](/cheapest-at/)
- [Inspect tier boundaries](/cliffs/)