Artificial Analysis billboards rank leading models by intelligence and cost per task
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-07-24
Artificial Analysis says model cost efficiency is becoming a primary performance dimension.
- Their new San Francisco billboards show an Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task chart for leading models.
- Fable 5 tops the index at 60 but averages $2.75 per task.
- Grok 4.5 (high) scores 54 at $0.31 per task, about 9× cheaper, and still sits on the Pareto frontier.
- DeepSeek v4 Flash scores 44 but costs $0.04 per task, about 69× cheaper than Fable.
The chart’s point: on the Pareto frontier, no model is better on both intelligence and cost, so models outside it are paying more for less.
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