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Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
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The dataset now lists the highest-scoring model for each price tier based on a blended cost per 1M tokens and an Intelligence Index.
Engineers can now select a model that fits their cost constraints while still meeting performance thresholds for intelligence, coding, and math tasks. The daily refresh ensures the frontier reflects the latest releases and pricing changes, allowing budget-aware decisions to stay current.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
The value frontier is recomputed each day to show the cheapest model that still meets or exceeds the performance of more expensive options.
Model scores and prices are derived from Artificial Analysis's blended cost metric and Intelligence Index, which are recalibrated with each new version.
The dataset highlights shifts in the frontier caused by new models, removed models, or re-scored/re-priced entries.
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What the cluster adds up to.
What changed: The daily update adds or removes models and adjusts their blended cost or Intelligence Index scores, which can move the optimal model for a given budget.
Adopting it costs: Engineers must re-evaluate their budget tier each day to capture the new optimal model, as the price-to-performance ratio can shift suddenly with new releases.
Where it stops working: The methodology only considers blended cost and the Intelligence Index; it ignores specialized capabilities, latency characteristics, or licensing constraints that may matter for certain applications.
The difference across feeds: This feed presents a concrete lookup table of budget tiers and scores, while other potential feeds might emphasize raw capability or market trends, leaving the precise frontier calculation under-explored here.
The grounding limitation: All specifics about model names, scores, or pricing changes are drawn solely from the provided excerpt, so any claim about exact numbers or future updates must be treated as illustrative rather than definitive.
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