Alternatives to GPT-4 Turbo

OpenAI LMArena 1271.7 $15.00/M on a balanced workload prices as of 2026-10-06

83 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, 130 score at least as high as GPT-4 Turbo and cost no more under at least one listed workload, with at least one of those dimensions improved. 83 match or beat its recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. 47 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

WorkloadGPT-4 Turbo $/MRecorded capabilities preservedRecorded capability losses
Balanced$15.008047
Summarise$11.008347
Chat$18.008047
Code gen$22.008047
Agentic$13.008347

Workload mixes are defined on the methodology page. 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

Intelligence1271.7
Context window128K
Max output4K
Input modestext, image
Tool useyes
Extended reasoningno

Preserving recorded capabilities requires matching or beating these fields. Full record for GPT-4 Turbo, or check GPT-4 Turbo against the whole catalogue.

Recorded capabilities preserved 83

Each option has a higher score or a lower price, with neither dimension worse under the listed workloads. It matches or beats GPT-4 Turbo on recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning.

#ModelIntelligence$/MHolds under
1Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic1511.7 +240$8.00
  • Balanced −47%
  • Summarise −66%
  • Chat −49%
  • Code gen −40%
  • Agentic −68%
2Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic1503.2 +231.5$10.00
  • Balanced −33%
  • Summarise −57%
  • Chat −35%
  • Code gen −24%
  • Agentic −59%
3Claude Opus 5 Anthropic1502.1 +230.4$10.00
  • Balanced −33%
  • Summarise −57%
  • Chat −35%
  • Code gen −24%
  • Agentic −59%
4Gemini 3.8 Flash Google1497 +225.3$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −87%
  • Chat −81%
  • Code gen −77%
  • Agentic −88%
5MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi1491 +219.3$0.540
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
6Muse Spark 1.3 Meta1489.9 +218.2$2.00
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −88%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −92%
7Gemini 3.7 Flash Google1487 +215.3$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −87%
  • Chat −81%
  • Code gen −77%
  • Agentic −88%
8Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic1489.9 +218.2$10.00
  • Balanced −33%
  • Summarise −57%
  • Chat −35%
  • Code gen −24%
  • Agentic −59%
9Muse Spark 1.2 Meta1483.2 +211.5$2.00
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −88%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −92%
10Gemini 3.6 Flash Google1479.5 +207.8$1.50
  • Balanced −90%
  • Summarise −94%
  • Chat −90%
  • Code gen −89%
  • Agentic −94%
11Muse Spark 1.1 Meta1479.2 +207.5$2.00
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −88%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −92%
12Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google1480.2 +208.5$4.50
  • Balanced −70%
  • Summarise −82%
  • Chat −70%
  • Code gen −64%
  • Agentic −81%
13Gemini 3.5 Flash Google1477.7 +206$3.38
  • Balanced −78%
  • Summarise −86%
  • Chat −77%
  • Code gen −73%
  • Agentic −86%
14Kimi K3 Moonshot AI1475.9 +204.2$3.76
  • Balanced −75%
  • Summarise −89%
  • Chat −69%
  • Code gen −63%
  • Agentic −82%
15GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai1469.6 +197.9$0.238
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
16Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic1466.6 +194.9$4.00
  • Balanced −73%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −74%
  • Code gen −70%
  • Agentic −84%
17DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek1462.5 +190.8$0.182
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
18GPT-5.5 OpenAI1466.8 +195.1$11.25
  • Balanced −25%
  • Summarise −55%
  • Chat −24%
  • Code gen −11%
  • Agentic −53%
19MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi1456.4 +184.7$0.175
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
20Gemini 2.5 Pro Google1457.8 +186.1$3.44
  • Balanced −77%
  • Summarise −88%
  • Chat −75%
  • Code gen −71%
  • Agentic −85%
21Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI1455.5 +183.8$0.961
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −96%
22Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic1461 +189.3$10.00
  • Balanced −33%
  • Summarise −57%
  • Chat −35%
  • Code gen −24%
  • Agentic −59%
23Qwen3.7 Plus Qwen1454.6 +182.9$0.560
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
24Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic1457.8 +186.1$6.00
  • Balanced −60%
  • Summarise −74%
  • Chat −61%
  • Code gen −55%
  • Agentic −75%
25GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI1456.3 +184.6$8.00
  • Balanced −47%
  • Summarise −66%
  • Chat −48%
  • Code gen −39%
  • Agentic −67%
26GPT-5.4 OpenAI1452.2 +180.5$5.63
  • Balanced −63%
  • Summarise −77%
  • Chat −62%
  • Code gen −55%
  • Agentic −77%
27Grok 4.5 xAI1448.1 +176.4$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −84%
  • Chat −83%
  • Code gen −81%
  • Agentic −88%
28Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI1445.2 +173.5$1.20
  • Balanced −92%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −92%
  • Code gen −91%
  • Agentic −95%
29Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic1451 +179.3$10.00
  • Balanced −33%
  • Summarise −57%
  • Chat −35%
  • Code gen −24%
  • Agentic −59%
30GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI1446.3 +174.6$4.50
  • Balanced −70%
  • Summarise −82%
  • Chat −70%
  • Code gen −64%
  • Agentic −81%
31Gemma 4 31B Google1443.4 +171.7$0.205
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
32GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI1445.6 +173.9$4.00
  • Balanced −73%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −74%
  • Code gen −70%
  • Agentic −84%
33Inkling Thinking Machines1441.8 +170.1$1.73
  • Balanced −89%
  • Summarise −92%
  • Chat −89%
  • Code gen −88%
  • Agentic −93%
34Qwen3.8 27B Qwen1440.7 +169$0.562
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −97%
35Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic1442.9 +171.2$4.00
  • Balanced −73%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −74%
  • Code gen −70%
  • Agentic −84%
36Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen1438 +166.3$0.878
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −95%
37Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen1436.7 +165$0.731
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −96%
38GLM 5V Turbo Z.ai1437.2 +165.5$1.90
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −89%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −92%
39Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic1438.6 +166.9$6.00
  • Balanced −60%
  • Summarise −74%
  • Chat −61%
  • Code gen −55%
  • Agentic −75%
40Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google1434.7 +163$0.850
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −96%
41Gemma 4 26B A4B Google1433.9 +162.2$0.127
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
42MiniMax M3 MiniMax1432.1 +160.4$0.485
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
43GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI1431 +159.3$0.450
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
44MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi1427.5 +155.8$0.175
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
45Grok 4.6 xAI1427.4 +155.7$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −84%
  • Chat −83%
  • Code gen −81%
  • Agentic −87%
46GPT-5.1 OpenAI1422.2 +150.5$3.44
  • Balanced −77%
  • Summarise −88%
  • Chat −75%
  • Code gen −71%
  • Agentic −85%
47Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen1420.1 +148.4$0.370
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
48Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral1421.2 +149.5$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −84%
  • Chat −78%
  • Code gen −77%
  • Agentic −82%
49Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen1417.1 +145.4$0.715
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −96%
50Gemini 2.5 Flash Google1417 +145.3$0.850
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −96%
51Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Google1415.7 +144$0.563
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −96%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
52Inkling Small Thinking Machines1413.7 +142$0.638
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −96%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −97%
53GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI1411.4 +139.7$1.69
  • Balanced −89%
  • Summarise −93%
  • Chat −89%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −93%
54GPT-5.2 OpenAI1412.3 +140.6$4.81
  • Balanced −68%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −66%
  • Code gen −59%
  • Agentic −80%
55Qwen3.5-27B Qwen1408.9 +137.2$0.536
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −96%
  • Code gen −95%
  • Agentic −97%
56o3 OpenAI1409.9 +138.2$3.50
  • Balanced −77%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −78%
  • Code gen −75%
  • Agentic −85%
57GPT-5 OpenAI1406.1 +134.4$3.44
  • Balanced −77%
  • Summarise −88%
  • Chat −75%
  • Code gen −71%
  • Agentic −85%
58Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen1400.7 +129$1.30
  • Balanced −91%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −90%
  • Code gen −88%
  • Agentic −93%
59Grok 4.7 xAI1399.9 +128.2$3.00
  • Balanced −80%
  • Summarise −84%
  • Chat −83%
  • Code gen −81%
  • Agentic −87%
60Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen1397 +125.3$0.114
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
61Grok 4.3 xAI1396.7 +125$1.56
  • Balanced −90%
  • Summarise −91%
  • Chat −92%
  • Code gen −91%
  • Agentic −94%
62Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic1396.1 +124.4$2.00
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −91%
  • Chat −87%
  • Code gen −85%
  • Agentic −92%
63Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen1394.4 +122.7$0.355
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
64GPT-6 Sol OpenAI1395.4 +123.7$4.00
  • Balanced −73%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −74%
  • Code gen −70%
  • Agentic −84%
65GPT-6 Luna OpenAI1391.5 +119.8$0.200
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
66GPT-4.1 OpenAI1383 +111.3$3.50
  • Balanced −77%
  • Summarise −83%
  • Chat −78%
  • Code gen −75%
  • Agentic −85%
67GLM 4.6V Z.ai1376.8 +105.1$0.450
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
68GPT-5 Mini OpenAI1373.2 +101.5$0.688
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −97%
69GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI1372.1 +100.4$0.463
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
70Nova 2 Lite Amazon1361.8 +90.1$0.850
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −93%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −95%
71Gemma 3 27B Google1357.8 +86.1$0.100
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
72o4 Mini OpenAI1353.2 +81.5$1.93
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −91%
  • Chat −88%
  • Code gen −86%
  • Agentic −92%
73GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI1340.4 +68.7$0.700
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −96%
  • Code gen −95%
  • Agentic −97%
74Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic1339.1 +67.4$6.00
  • Balanced −60%
  • Summarise −74%
  • Chat −61%
  • Code gen −55%
  • Agentic −75%
75Gemma 3 12B Google1334.2 +62.5$0.075
  • Balanced over 99% less
  • Summarise over 99% less
  • Chat over 99% less
  • Code gen over 99% less
  • Agentic over 99% less
76GPT-5 Nano OpenAI1320 +48.3$0.138
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise over 99% less
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
77GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI1300.4 +28.7$7.50
  • Balanced −50%
  • Summarise −50%
  • Chat −50%
  • Code gen −50%
  • Agentic −50%
78GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI1286.4 +14.7$0.263
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
79GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI1284.8 +13.1$0.175
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
80GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI1282.5 +10.8$4.38
  • Balanced −71%
  • Summarise −77%
  • Chat −72%
  • Code gen −69%
  • Agentic −78%
81Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic1510.6 +238.9$9.22 summarise
  • Summarise −16%
  • Agentic −22%
82Claude Fable 5 Anthropic1491.7 +220$9.44 summarise
  • Summarise −14%
  • Agentic −18%
83GPT-6 Astra OpenAI1442.3 +170.6$9.44 summarise
  • Summarise −14%
  • Agentic −18%

Alternatives with recorded capability losses 47

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.

ModelIntelligence$/MHolds underRecorded capability loss
GLM 5.3 Z.ai1471.4 +199.7$1.00
  • Balanced −93%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −92%
  • Code gen −90%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
GLM 5.2 Z.ai1470.4 +198.7$1.12
  • Balanced −93%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −91%
  • Code gen −90%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi1465 +193.3$0.544
  • Balanced −96%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
GLM 5.1 Z.ai1461.5 +189.8$1.83
  • Balanced −88%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −89%
  • Code gen −88%
  • Agentic −91%
  • no image input
GLM 5 Z.ai1446.3 +174.6$1.09
  • Balanced −93%
  • Summarise −94%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
Qwen3.6 Max Preview Qwen1446.8 +175.1$2.31
  • Balanced −85%
  • Summarise −88%
  • Chat −83%
  • Code gen −81%
  • Agentic −86%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 DeepSeek1445.2 +173.5$1.21
  • Balanced −92%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −91%
  • Code gen −90%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
Hy3 Tencent1440.7 +169$0.231
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
GLM 4.6 Z.ai1439.9 +168.2$0.760
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −95%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
GLM 4.7 Z.ai1435.5 +163.8$0.738
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −95%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek1432.1 +160.4$0.113
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic over 99% less
  • no image input
GLM 4.5 Z.ai1430.3 +158.6$1.00
  • Balanced −93%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −96%
  • no image input
R1 0528 DeepSeek1427.9 +156.2$0.920
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −93%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −94%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek1424.5 +152.8$0.290
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp DeepSeek1422.4 +150.7$0.305
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek1419.7 +148$0.453
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen1419.3 +147.6$0.205
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen1417.3 +145.6$0.268
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek1417.1 +145.4$0.453
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 Qwen1415.2 +143.5$0.748
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −96%
  • no image input
Qwen3 Max Qwen1412.4 +140.7$1.56
  • Balanced −90%
  • Summarise −93%
  • Chat −90%
  • Code gen −88%
  • Agentic −93%
  • no image input
MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax1404.6 +132.9$0.525
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
Step 3.5 Flash StepFun1403 +131.3$0.150
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
Solar Pro 4 Upstage1386.2 +114.5$0.525
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Qwen1384.1 +112.4$0.143
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai1383.9 +112.2$0.310
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek1375 +103.3$0.438
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
R1 DeepSeek1372.7 +101$1.15
  • Balanced −92%
  • Summarise −93%
  • Chat −92%
  • Code gen −92%
  • Agentic −93%
  • 128K → 64K context
  • no image input
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen1368.3 +96.6$0.413
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen1366.6 +94.9$0.796
  • Balanced −95%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
gpt-oss-120b OpenAI1365.4 +93.7$0.065
  • Balanced over 99% less
  • Summarise over 99% less
  • Chat over 99% less
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic over 99% less
  • no image input
MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax1359.3 +87.6$0.521
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
Mercury 2 Inception1355.2 +83.5$0.375
  • Balanced −98%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai1350.9 +79.2$0.145
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
MiniMax M1 MiniMax1342.8 +71.1$0.850
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −96%
  • Chat −94%
  • Code gen −93%
  • Agentic −95%
  • no image input
Qwen3 32B Qwen1340.1 +68.4$0.130
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
Trinity Large Thinking Arcee1340 +68.3$0.388
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −97%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
MiniMax M2 MiniMax1339.9 +68.2$0.525
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −98%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −98%
  • no image input
o3 Mini High OpenAI1336.6 +64.9$1.93
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −87%
  • Code gen −86%
  • Agentic −90%
  • no image input
GLM 4.5V Z.ai1332.8 +61.1$0.900
  • Balanced −94%
  • Summarise −95%
  • Chat −95%
  • Code gen −94%
  • Agentic −96%
  • 128K → 66K context
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek1332.5 +60.8$0.500
  • Balanced −97%
  • Summarise −97%
  • Chat −97%
  • Code gen −96%
  • Agentic −97%
  • no image input
o3 Mini OpenAI1319.4 +47.7$1.93
  • Balanced −87%
  • Summarise −90%
  • Chat −87%
  • Code gen −86%
  • Agentic −90%
  • no image input
Granite 4.2 8B IBM1317.8 +46.1$0.108
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic over 99% less
  • no image input
Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen1316.6 +44.9$0.215
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −98%
  • Code gen −98%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input
Gemma 3 4B Google1290.8 +19.1$0.063
  • Balanced over 99% less
  • Summarise over 99% less
  • Chat over 99% less
  • Code gen over 99% less
  • Agentic over 99% less
  • no tool use
gpt-oss-20b OpenAI1287.7 +16$0.036
  • Balanced over 99% less
  • Summarise over 99% less
  • Chat over 99% less
  • Code gen over 99% less
  • Agentic over 99% less
  • no image input
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta1274.1 tie$0.201
  • Balanced −99%
  • Summarise −99%
  • Chat −99%
  • Code gen −99%
  • Agentic −99%
  • no image input

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.
  • 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. Models with such an alternative are listed here.
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