Which LLM offers the best price-to-performance ratio in 2026?

Across 37 tracked foundation models, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next leads overall cost-efficiency (85.1/100 IVR at $0.075/1M input), while Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (85.1 IVR) leads open-weight Apache 2.0/MIT models. For frontier reasoning and coding, Claude Opus 5.5 (89.9% SWE-bench Verified), Gemini 4 Argon (76.4% SWE-bench, 86.8% GPQA Diamond at $1.00/1M input), and GPT-6 Astra (96% GPQA Diamond) set the industry ceiling.
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VS Model Name ↕ Input / 1M ↕ Output / 1M ↕ Cache / 1M ↕ Context ↕ SWE-bench ↕ GPQA ↕ TTFT ↕ Speed ↕ IVR ↕ Specs
Alibaba Cloud • Open Weight $0.16 $0.47 $0.016 268.288k 81% 91.7% 280ms 185 t/s 85.1 Specs →
DeepSeek • Open Weight $0.22 $0.65 $0.007 1,048.576k 77.4% 91.3% 310ms 165 t/s 81.6 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $0.075 $0.30 $0.015 1,048.576k 55.4% 68.4% 78ms 265 t/s 81.5 Specs →
Gemma 4 31B IT ★ Pareto
Google • Open Weight
$0.12 $0.36 $0.030 131.072k 59.2% 71.2% 115ms 155 t/s 80.3 Specs →
Google DeepMind • Proprietary $0.10 $0.40 $0.025 1,073.152k 51.8% 63.6% 280ms 185 t/s 77.7 Specs →
Meta • Open Weight $0.20 $0.60 $0.050 1,048.576k 62.4% 73.8% 135ms 175 t/s 77 Specs →
Zhipu AI • Open Weight $0.12 $0.40 $0.030 262.144k 52.8% 63.5% 90ms 175 t/s 76.7 Specs →
DeepSeek • Open Weight $0.14 $0.28 $0.014 131.072k 42% 59.1% 410ms 78 t/s 75 Specs →
Alibaba Cloud • Open Weight $0.20 $0.60 $0.050 131.072k 58.4% 68% 120ms 140 t/s 74.9 Specs →
Meta • Open Weight $0.12 $0.30 $0.030 131.072k 42.5% 55.6% 145ms 165 t/s 74.6 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $0.25 $1.50 $0.025 1,048.576k 68.5% 79.2% 105ms 210 t/s 74 Specs →
Zhipu AI • Open Weight $0.35 $1.00 $0.090 131.072k 56% 67% 160ms 120 t/s 69.9 Specs →
xAI • Proprietary $0.30 $1.20 $0.080 131.072k 54% 68% 150ms 160 t/s 69.2 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $0.15 $0.60 $0.075 131.072k 41% 40.2% 220ms 140 t/s 67.2 Specs →
DeepSeek • Open Weight $1.32 $3.96 $0.145 1,024k 80.6% 90.1% 520ms 78 t/s 67 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $0.30 $2.50 $0.030 1,048.576k 58% 70.5% 110ms 180 t/s 66.6 Specs →
DeepSeek • Open Weight $0.55 $2.19 $0.140 131.072k 49.2% 71.5% 1450ms 58 t/s 64.8 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $1.10 $4.40 $0.275 204.8k 68.1% 81.4% 680ms 125 t/s 63.7 Specs →
GPT-6.1 Sol ★ Pareto
OpenAI • Proprietary
$2.00 $10.00 $0.100 1,075.2k 86.4% 92.4% 520ms 135 t/s 62.9 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $2.00 $10.00 $0.100 1,024k 84.5% 93.8% 850ms 115 t/s 62.6 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $2.00 $8.00 $0.500 204.8k 71.7% 87.7% 1150ms 82 t/s 60.6 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $1.25 $10.00 $0.310 1,048.576k 71.8% 82.4% 420ms 98 t/s 60 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $1.10 $4.40 $0.550 204.8k 49.3% 79.7% 950ms 98 t/s 59.7 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $2.50 $10.00 $0.625 409.6k 74.9% 85.4% 340ms 105 t/s 59.2 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $4.00 $20.00 $0.200 1,024k 89.9% 93.2% 680ms 95 t/s 57.8 Specs →
xAI • Proprietary $2.50 $12.50 $0.500 262.144k 73.2% 86.2% 480ms 95 t/s 57.6 Specs →
Google • Proprietary $1.25 $10.00 $0.313 1,024k 63.8% 74% 700ms 80 t/s 56.8 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $3.00 $15.00 $0.300 204.8k 75.8% 84.2% 380ms 84 t/s 56.5 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $3.00 $15.00 $0.300 204.8k 70.3% 78.5% 540ms 72 t/s 54.3 Specs →
xAI • Proprietary $3.00 $15.00 $0.750 134.144k 65.8% 84.6% 620ms 88 t/s 52.7 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $0.80 $4.00 $0.080 204.8k 40.6% 41.6% 190ms 130 t/s 52.4 Specs →
Mistral AI • Proprietary $2.00 $6.00 $0.200 131.072k 45.2% 54.2% 380ms 75 t/s 50.1 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $2.50 $10.00 $1.250 131.072k 48% 53.6% 280ms 100 t/s 47.6 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $10.00 $50.00 $1.000 1,075.2k 75.7% 96% 740ms 74 t/s 47.6 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $3.00 $15.00 $0.300 204.8k 49% 59.4% 310ms 80 t/s 46.2 Specs →
Anthropic • Proprietary $15.00 $75.00 $1.500 204.8k 77.2% 87.1% 920ms 46 t/s 43.6 Specs →
OpenAI • Proprietary $15.00 $60.00 $7.500 204.8k 48.9% 78% 2600ms 48 t/s 37.2 Specs →