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title: "The value frontier — what is actually worth buying · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Only 11 of 150 rated AI models are undominated. Everything else is a strictly worse deal: something is both smarter and cheaper."
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# The value frontier — what is actually worth buying · Undominated.ai

> Only 11 of 150 rated AI models are undominated. Everything else is a strictly worse deal: something is both smarter and cheaper.

# The value frontier

Every model, plotted by what it costs against how good it is. The staircase is the frontier: nothing beats those models on both axes at once. Everything below and to the right is a strictly worse deal — there is something both smarter and cheaper.

Changing the workload below moves the frontier less than you would expect: **91% of frontier models are on it under every workload** (only Solar Pro 4 moves). What does change is the price — the same model swings up to **4×** across these shapes. So the control is not about which models to consider. It is about what you would actually pay for them.

 10 undominated of 106 96 worse deals

 Workload Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

 Measured on General Coding Agentic Human preference

 Show the 96 dominated models
 - 1 [Ling-3.0-flash inclusionAI](/models/inclusionai__ling-3.0-flash) 37.8 $0.032 /M cheapest rung
- 2 [Solar Pro 4 Upstage](/models/upstage__solar-pro4) 41.6 $0.052 /M +3.8 for 1.7× the price
- 3 [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash) 42.1 $0.061 /M +0.5 for 1.2× the price
- 4 [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) 51.8 $0.105 /M +9.7 for 1.7× the price
- 5 [GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna) 52.3 $0.450 /M +0.5 for 4.3× the price
- 6 [Gemini 3.7 Flash Google](/models/google__gemini-3.7-flash) 56.0 $0.750 /M +3.7 for 1.7× the price
- 7 [Muse Spark 1.2 Meta](/models/meta__muse-spark-1.2) 56.8 $2.00 /M +0.8 for 2.7× the price
- 8 [GLM 5.3 Z.ai](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3) 59.5 $2.15 /M +2.7 for 1.1× the price
- 9 [Grok 4.6 xAI](/models/x-ai__grok-4.6) 60.9 $3.00 /M +1.4 for 1.4× the price
- 10 [Claude Opus 5 Anthropic](/models/anthropic__claude-opus-5) 63.1 $10.00 /M +2.2 for 3.3× the price