Cognition's FrontierCode 2: Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra lead; Chinese OSS models lag at 17%

scaling01 · x · 2026-10-28

Cognition's FrontierCode 2 price-vs-performance leaderboard is dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic models, with Grok 4.7 xhigh the lone exception at #20 (28.6%). Opus 5.5 max scores 45.5% at $12.82/task and GPT-6 Astra max 42.8% at $6.68; GPT-6.1 Sol leads cost efficiency at 39% for $1.03/task. Chinese OSS models Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 score just 17%, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ranks 52nd, and American OSS models Beam and Inkling trail further at 3%.

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