d1-ultra tops Artificial Analysis Decision Index at ~$30 per 1M tasks
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-10-16
The poster pitches d1-ultra as a well-calibrated decision model for hard problems—cheap, reliable, and best tried hands-on rather than judged by benchmarks alone.
The attached Artificial Analysis chart shows d1-ultra at 65 on the Decision Index, sitting atop the Pareto frontier at roughly $30 per 1M tasks. Competitors compared include Inception, Microsoft-Decider-1, Celeris-1, Jev 1.13/1.14, GLIDE, and GPT-6 Luna (Decisions), most of which score lower or cost substantially more.
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