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LLM Pareto Frontier — edition 2026-07

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Archived snapshot of the LLM Pareto Frontier living report, as published on 2026-07-06. Data: Artificial Analysis model pages, Intelligence Index and vendor list prices, fetched 2026-07-06.

$0$10$20$30$40$50 Output price, $ per 1M tokens 4045505560 AA Intelligence Index Claude Fable 5 Opus 4.8 GPT-5.5 Sonnet 5 GPT-5.4 Gemini 3.5 Flash GLM 5.2 MiniMax M3 Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2.7 DeepSeek V4 Flash 85% of the top model's intelligencefor 9% of its price — all of it open Open weights (we serve them) Proprietary Pareto frontier

Frontier this edition: DeepSeek V4 Flash → MiniMax M3 → GLM 5.2 → Sonnet 5 → Opus 4.8 → Claude Fable 5.

ModelAA IndexInput $/MOutput $/MWeightsPareto-efficient
Claude Fable 560$10.00$50.00closed
Opus 4.856$5.00$25.00closed
GPT-5.555$5.00$30.00closeddominated by Opus 4.8
Sonnet 553$3.00$15.00closed
GLM 5.251$1.40$4.40open
GPT-5.451$2.50$15.00closedmatched by GLM 5.2 at 3.4× less
Gemini 3.5 Flash50$1.50$9.00closeddominated by GLM 5.2
MiniMax M344$0.30$1.20open
Kimi K2.643$0.95$4.00opendominated by MiniMax M3
Kimi K2.742$0.95$4.00opendominated by MiniMax M3
DeepSeek V4 Flash40$0.14$0.28open