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9 undominated of 134 · Aug 28, 2026

As of Aug 28, 2026, GLM 4.5V is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 156.6 higher and costs 17% less, with a covering envelope. 9 of 134 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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GLM 4.5V

Balanced

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Gemini 3.7 Flash1490.2 · $0.750/MGLM 4.5V1333.6 · $0.900/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
134 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

Gemini 3.7 Flash is both better and cheaper than GLM 4.5V.

GLM 4.5V

LMArena Elo

1333.6

Effective $/M · Balanced

$0.900/M

Gemini 3.7 Flash

LMArena Elo

1490.2

Effective $/M · Balanced

$0.750/M

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
Gemini 3.7 Flash1490.2 +156.6$0.750/M17%
Qwen3.7 Plus1456.2 +122.6$0.560/M38%
Gemma 4 31B1441.7 +108.1$0.153/M83%
Qwen3.5 397B A17B1438.3 +104.7$0.877/M2%
Qwen3.6 Plus1436.8 +103.2$0.731/M19%
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1436.5 +102.9$0.850/M6%
MiniMax M31434.8 +101.2$0.525/M42%
Gemma 4 26B A4B 1434.6 +101.0$0.138/M85%
GPT-5.6 Luna1428.5 +94.9$0.450/M50%
MiMo-V2.51427.3 +93.7$0.175/M81%
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B1417.9 +84.3$0.715/M21%
Gemini 2.5 Flash1417.3 +83.7$0.850/M6%
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1414.8 +81.2$0.563/M37%
Inkling Small1411.7 +78.1$0.637/M29%
Qwen3.5-27B1407.9 +74.3$0.536/M40%
Qwen3.5-Flash1397.6 +64.0$0.114/M87%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B1395.6 +62.0$0.500/M44%
GLM 4.6V1374.7 +41.1$0.450/M50%
GPT-5 Mini1373.4 +39.8$0.688/M24%
GPT-5.4 Nano1372.8 +39.2$0.463/M49%
Nova 2 Lite1362.2 +28.6$0.850/M6%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou give up
MiMo-V2.5-Pro1465.0$0.544/Mimage
Hy31441.2$0.144/Mimage
GLM 4.61439.8$0.875/Mimage
GLM 4.71435.3$0.738/Mimage
DeepSeek V4 Flash 04231431.6$0.101/Mimage

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