· State of the Art

Daily AI Decision Intelligence

Multi-source rankings blended into one score. See which model is truly State of the Art — today.

Data as of 2026-09-11Updated Sep 11, 05:01 PM

Overall Intelligence

Multi-source blend of general intelligence benchmarks into a single AISOTA score.

#ModelArtificial AnalysisLiveBenchAISOTA Score
1SOTAClaude Fable 5.1 (max with fallback)2 sources95.098.296.6
22GPT-6 Astra (max)2 sources90.094.792.3
33Claude Fable 5 (with fallback)2 sources80.096.588.3
4gpt-5.5-xhigh87.787.7
5Claude Opus 5 (max)2 sources85.086.085.5
6gemini-3.7-flash-high84.284.2
7Muse Spark 1.3 (max)2 sources75.093.084.0
8smaug-agentic82.582.5
9qwen3.8-max80.780.7
10GPT-5.6 Sol (max)2 sources70.091.280.6

Coding Ability

Multi-source blend of coding benchmarks into a single AISOTA score.

#ModelArtificial Analysis AgenticLiveBench CodingAISOTA Score
1SOTAdeepseek-v4.1-flash-max98.298.2
22claude-fable-5-1-max-effort96.596.5
33smaug-agentic94.794.7
4claude-fable-5-max-effort93.093.0
5claude-opus-5-max-effort91.291.2
6muse-spark-1.3-xhigh89.589.5
7kimi-k387.787.7
8glm-5.386.086.0
9qwen3.8-max84.284.2
10claude-sonnet-5-xhigh-effort82.582.5

Value for Money

Intelligence per dollar, based on median input + output price.

#ModelAA IntelligenceOpenRouter PriceAISOTA Score
1SOTAGLM-5.3-Flash2 sources45.086.465.7
22GLM-5.3 (max)2 sources65.037.451.2
33Claude Fable 5.1 (max with fallback)2 sources95.05.350.1
4Muse Spark 1.3 (max)2 sources75.025.250.1
5GPT-5.6 Luna (max)2 sources25.074.549.8
6GPT-6 Astra (max)2 sources90.06.048.0
7Claude Opus 5 (max)2 sources85.010.948.0
8GPT-5.6 Sol (max)2 sources70.022.846.4
9DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)2 sources30.057.643.8
10Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)2 sources40.047.043.5

Model Usage

API request volume per model over the last 7 days, sourced from OpenRouter public rankings.

#ModelOpenRouter UsageAISOTA Score
1SOTAdeepseek-v4-flash1.04B99.8
22gpt-5-6-luna658.97M99.6
33glm-5-3-flash314.96M99.3
4gemini-2-5-flash-lite260.42M99.1
5hy4164.13M98.9
6gemini-3-1-flash-lite132.33M98.7
7gemma-4-26b-a4b-it127.41M98.4
8gemini-2-5-flash125.17M98.2
9gpt-oss-120b123.94M98.0
10gpt-4o-mini120.82M97.8

AI Tools Leaderboard

Ranked lists of the best AI tools across the most popular categories, with editorial notes on each tool.

AI Compute & API Pricing

Live AI compute prices: model API inference costs, cloud GPU benchmark pricing, and best value models per quality point. Updated daily from public sources.

API Inference Pricing

3028 entries

  1. 1SOTAdeepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct$0.02/M
  2. 2lambda_ai/llama3.2-3b-instruct$0.02/M
  3. 3nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct$0.02/M
  4. 4nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct$0.02/M
  5. 5nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B$0.02/M

Chinese AI Models Pricing

956 entries

  1. 1SOTAnscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct$0.02/M
  2. 2nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct$0.02/M
  3. 3nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B$0.02/M
  4. 4nscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B$0.03/M
  5. 5novita/qwen/qwen3-4b-fp8$0.03/M

Cloud GPU Benchmark Pricing

18 entries

  1. 1SOTAStandard_NV4as_v4$0.054/h
  2. 2Standard_NC36ds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v6$0.333/h
  3. 3Standard_NV24s_v3$0.584/h
  4. 4Standard_NV16as_v4$1.901/h
  5. 5Standard_NC320lds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v6$2.643/h

How AISOTA scoring works

Each model is scored against the sources on that board. Within each source, models are ranked and converted to a 0–100 percentile. A model's AISOTA score is the weighted average of its percentile ranks across sources. SOTA marks today's #1.

Data is collected automatically from public APIs each day. Missing cells mean the source does not list that model.