Efficiency Frontier Map for Open Source Models
StupidScaredSquirrel · reddit · 2026-07-15
The author compiled the **current efficiency frontier of open models**, defining efficiency as **score / active parameters**. They filtered out all models not on the Pareto frontier, keeping only those on the current "cost-effectiveness boundary." They also acknowledged limitations: the data uses aggregated benchmarks from **Artificial Analysis**, which may not be perfect, but is still useful enough as a general reference. Essentially, the post creates an "efficiency-ranked boundary map" for open-source models, making it easy to spot which models deliver more bang for the buck at equivalent active parameter counts.
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