AISOTA· 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 2026-09-29Updated Sep 30, 05:00 AM

Overall Intelligence

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

#	Model	Artificial Analysis	LiveBench	AISOTA Score
1SOTA	claude-fable-5-1-max-effort	—	98.4	98.4
22	claude-fable-5-max-effort	—	96.8	96.8
33	gpt-6-astra-max	—	95.2	95.2
4	muse-spark-1.3-xhigh	—	93.7	93.7
5	claude-opus-5-5-xhigh-effort	—	92.1	92.1
6	gpt-6.1-sol-xhigh	—	90.5	90.5
7	gpt-5.6-sol-max	—	88.9	88.9
8	deepseek-v4.1-flash-max	—	87.3	87.3
9	gpt-5.5-xhigh	—	85.7	85.7
10	claude-opus-5-max-effort	—	84.1	84.1

Coding Ability

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

Sources:Artificial Analysis Agentic LiveBench Coding

#	Model	Artificial Analysis Agentic	LiveBench Coding	AISOTA Score
1SOTA	deepseek-v4.1-flash-max	—	98.4	98.4
22	claude-opus-5-5-xhigh-effort	—	96.8	96.8
33	claude-fable-5-1-max-effort	—	95.2	95.2
4	smaug-agentic	—	93.7	93.7
5	claude-fable-5-max-effort	—	92.1	92.1
6	claude-opus-5-max-effort	—	90.5	90.5
7	muse-spark-1.3-xhigh	—	88.9	88.9
8	kimi-k3	—	87.3	87.3
9	glm-5.3	—	85.7	85.7
10	qwen3.8-max	—	84.1	84.1

Value for Money

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

Sources:AA Intelligence OpenRouter Price

#	Model	AA Intelligence	OpenRouter Price	AISOTA Score

Model Usage

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

Sources:OpenRouter Usage

#	Model	OpenRouter Usage	AISOTA Score
1SOTA	jev-1-13	860.74M	99.8
22	deepseek-v4-flash	827.12M	99.6
33	glm-5-3-flash	364.27M	99.4
4	deepseek-v4-1-flash	359.96M	99.2
5	gemini-2-5-flash-lite	285.15M	99.0
6	space-bunny-alpha	261.01M	98.8
7	gpt-5-6-luna	238.4M	98.6
8	gpt-6-luna	166.22M	98.4
9	text-embedding-3-small	162M	98.1
10	gemini-3-1-flash-lite	147.15M	97.9

AI Tools Leaderboard

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

AI Business Tools

318 tools

1SOTAFigma99.7
2Rose AI99.4
3Asana99.1
4Comment Generator98.7
5Sprout Social98.4

AI Code Tools

76 tools

AI Productivity Tools

233 tools

1SOTAFrame99.6
2Sonix99.1
3Everlaw98.7
4Torq98.3
5Poised97.8

AI Text Generators

128 tools

1SOTAStable Diffusion Prompt Generator99.2
2Cohesive98.4
3StudyX97.7
4ProWritingAid96.9
5Rankify AI96.1

AI Image Tools

183 tools

AI Audio Generators

91 tools

1SOTASplice98.9
2iZotope RX97.8
3S10.AI96.7
4Wondercraft95.6
5Gladia94.4

AI Video Tools

76 tools

AI Art Generators

65 tools

Automation Tools

81 tools

1SOTADot98.8
2Zoho Sheet97.5
3Simple Phones96.3
4Humans95.1
5Nabla93.8

Misc AI Tools

42 tools

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

3445 entries

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

Chinese AI Models Pricing

1068 entries

1SOTAnscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct$0.02/M
2nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct$0.02/M
3nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B$0.02/M
4together_ai/Qwen/Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct$0.02/M
5nscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B$0.03/M

Best Value Models (per quality point)

15 entries

1SOTAgpt-6-luna$0.013
2gpt-6-sol$0.074
3claude-sonnet-5-5$0.090
4deepseek-v4-pro$0.111
5claude-sonnet-5$0.126

Cloud GPU Benchmark Pricing

18 entries

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