--- title: "The value frontier on 2026-10-13 · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/now/2026-10-13/ description: "Immutable snapshot of the value frontier on 2026-10-13. Living page: /now/. No backfill." --- # The value frontier on 2026-10-13 · Undominated.ai > Immutable snapshot of the value frontier on 2026-10-13. Living page: /now/. No backfill. Immutable stamp # The value frontier on 2026-10-13 This URL does not move. The living stamp is /now/. Absence in a later snapshot is not rewritten here. Priced for the balanced mix: three parts input to one part output, no cache assumed. Changing the mix is a different question; this page is a stamp, not a slider. This stamp is kept as published. The board has changed since: the data refresh of 2026-10-21 17:27 UTC. The living stamp at /now/ carries the change. As of 2026-10-13 2026-10-13 11 11 undominated Share models 354 providers 7 rated, priced 143 undominated 11 strictly beaten 92% ** 132 of 143 rated, priced models have another that scores at least as high, costs no more, and wins on one of the two. The short chartreuse length is the undominated set. A staircase, not a curve. Between two rungs there is no model, so a smooth line would invent options that do not exist. Chartreuse marks the undominated set. Each graphite dot has a model that scores at least as high, costs no more, and wins on one of the two. Logos name the vendor; they are not a ranking colour. ## The rungs, best first - 1 [Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic](/models/anthropic__claude-opus-5.5/) LMArena 1514.8 ** $/M $8.00/M ** [Check](/check/anthropic__claude-opus-5.5/) - 2 [Gemini 3.8 Flash Google](/models/google__gemini-3.8-flash/) LMArena 1499.0 ** $/M $3.00/M ** [Check](/check/google__gemini-3.8-flash/) - 3 [MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) LMArena 1491.7 ** $/M $0.540/M ** [Check](/check/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - 4 [GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) LMArena 1471.1 ** $/M $0.238/M ** Price under confirmation since Oct 12, 2026 [Check](/check/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) - 5 [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) LMArena 1462.4 ** $/M $0.182/M ** Price under confirmation since Oct 12, 2026 [Check](/check/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) - 6 [MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-flash/) LMArena 1455.2 ** $/M $0.175/M ** [Check](/check/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-flash/) - 7 [Gemma 4 26B A4B Google](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/) LMArena 1434.2 ** $/M $0.127/M ** [Check](/check/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/) - 8 [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/) LMArena 1432.1 ** $/M $0.113/M ** Price under confirmation since Oct 12, 2026 [Check](/check/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/) - 9 [gpt-oss-120b OpenAI](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) LMArena 1365.4 ** $/M $0.060/M ** [Check](/check/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) - 10 [gpt-oss-20b OpenAI](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) LMArena 1287.4 ** $/M $0.036/M ** [Check](/check/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) - 11 [Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Meta](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) LMArena 1186.6 ** $/M $0.025/M ** [Check](/check/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) ## Quality span 1186.6 – 1514.8 1186.6 to 1514.8 Elo among undominated rungs on this stamp. **** **** ** ## Price span $0.025 – $8.00 $0.025/M to $8.00/M per million tokens, balanced mix. - [Llama 3.1 8B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) - [Claude Opus 5.5](/models/anthropic__claude-opus-5.5/) ## Largest adjacent step gpt-oss-20b is 100.8 Elo above Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, at 1.44× the price. Adjacent on this stair, not a catalogue knee. [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) ↓ [Llama 3.1 8B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) ## Who is on it - DeepSeek 2 of 11 ** - Google 2 of 11 ** - OpenAI 2 of 11 ** - Xiaomi 2 of 11 ** - Anthropic 1 of 11 ** - Meta 1 of 11 ** - Z.ai 1 of 11 ** ## Stamps we have The dated archive starts with the first snapshot. There is no invented history. - [2026-08-24 10 undominated](/now/2026-08-24/) - [2026-08-25 10 undominated](/now/2026-08-25/) - [2026-08-26 9 undominated](/now/2026-08-26/) - [2026-08-28 9 undominated](/now/2026-08-28/) - [2026-08-29 9 undominated](/now/2026-08-29/) - [2026-08-30 9 undominated](/now/2026-08-30/) - [2026-09-02 9 undominated](/now/2026-09-02/) - [2026-09-03 10 undominated](/now/2026-09-03/) - [2026-09-04 10 undominated](/now/2026-09-04/) - [2026-09-08 10 undominated](/now/2026-09-08/) - [2026-09-11 10 undominated](/now/2026-09-11/) - [2026-09-15 11 undominated](/now/2026-09-15/) - [2026-09-22 12 undominated](/now/2026-09-22/) - [2026-09-23 13 undominated](/now/2026-09-23/) - [2026-09-29 12 undominated](/now/2026-09-29/) - [2026-09-30 12 undominated](/now/2026-09-30/) - [2026-10-06 12 undominated](/now/2026-10-06/) - [2026-10-13 11 undominated](/now/2026-10-13/) - [2026-10-14 11 undominated](/now/2026-10-14/) - [2026-10-15 11 undominated](/now/2026-10-15/) - [2026-10-16 12 undominated](/now/2026-10-16/) - [2026-10-17 12 undominated](/now/2026-10-17/) - [2026-10-18 12 undominated](/now/2026-10-18/) - [2026-10-21 12 undominated](/now/2026-10-21/) ## Cite APA Copy Undominated.ai. (2026-10-13). The value frontier. https://undominated.ai/now/2026-10-13/ BibTeX Copy @misc{undominated-now-2026-10-13, author = {{Undominated.ai}}, title = {The value frontier}, year = {2026}, url = {https://undominated.ai/now/2026-10-13/}, note = {2026-10-13} } [LMArena scores used under CC BY 4.0](/methodology/) [Open the living /now/ stamp](/now/) ## Continue your investigation - [Inspect changes](/wire/) - [See today’s frontier](/frontier/) - [Check lifecycle notices](/deprecations/) - [Use snapshots](/api/)