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Written analysis when the data says something worth saying, and a generated digest every day the rankings move.
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The week on the leaderboard, 28 Sept 2026 to 4 Oct 2026
10 new models, 5 price cuts, 613 new benchmark results. What moved on the BenchLeader Index this week and why.
The week on the leaderboard, 21 Sept 2026 to 27 Sept 2026
GPT-6 Luna up 2.1, 12 new models, 23 price cuts, 2211 new benchmark results. What moved on the BenchLeader Index this week and why.
The week on the leaderboard, 14 Sept 2026 to 20 Sept 2026
DeepSeek V4 Flash up 10.0, 13 new models, 15 price cuts, 6954 new benchmark results. What moved on the BenchLeader Index this week and why.
The week on the leaderboard, 7 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2026
Gemma 4 31B up 9.2, 1 new model, 37 price cuts, 3 new benchmark results. What moved on the BenchLeader Index this week and why.
The best AI models for coding, by the benchmarks that actually test coding
Which LLMs write and fix code best right now, judged by SWE-bench Verified, LiveCodeBench, Aider, Terminal-Bench, SWE-Bench Pro and WebDev Arena, with prices.
The fastest LLMs: output speed and time to first answer, measured
Which AI models stream fastest and answer soonest, measured on live traffic, and why reasoning effort turns a two-second model into a two-minute one.
LLM API pricing compared: what a task really costs in 2026
Per-million-token prices hide the shape of real work. Here is what a chat reply, a document summary, a code edit and an agentic session cost on today's models, with and without prompt caching.
LLM benchmarks explained: what GPQA, HLE, SWE-bench, ARC-AGI and the rest actually measure
A plain-language guide to the benchmarks behind every AI model ranking: what each one tests, who publishes it, and the traps to watch for.
LLM leaderboard 2026: who leads, and how to read the rankings
The current state of the AI model race across quality, speed and cost, with every number pulled from independent benchmarks and refreshed daily.
Open weights vs closed models in 2026: how far behind, and where it doesn't matter
The best open-weights LLMs ranked against the closed frontier, with the gap in points, price and speed, from independent benchmarks.
Reasoning effort explained: why the same model gets two different scores
Low, medium, high, xhigh, max: what the reasoning-effort setting does to quality, speed and cost, and why a benchmark score without it is half a number.
Introducing BenchLeader: every AI benchmark, one leaderboard
Why we built an aggregator instead of another benchmark, how the BenchLeader Index works, and what you can do with the data.
Daily digest
8 top-10 rank changes, 6 price changes, 65 new or updated benchmark results across 23 sources.
61 new or updated benchmark results across 23 sources.
1 new model, 9 top-10 rank changes, 22 price changes, 149 new or updated benchmark results across 23 sources.
3 new models, 5 top-10 rank changes, 19 price changes, 399 new or updated benchmark results across 23 sources.
4 new models, 9 top-10 rank changes, 20 price changes, 169 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
2 new models, 2 top-10 rank changes, 12 price changes, 93 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
15 price changes, 155 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
114 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
2 top-10 rank changes, 70 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
2 new models, 12 price changes, 21 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
14 new models, 5 top-10 rank changes, 129 price changes, 83 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
8 new models, 9 top-10 rank changes, 48 price changes, 1940 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
3 new models, 2 top-10 rank changes, 4 price changes, 88 new or updated benchmark results across 22 sources.
9 price changes, 220 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
2 new models, 12 top-10 rank changes, 41 price changes, 6874 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
8 top-10 rank changes, 13 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
3 new models, 4 top-10 rank changes, 17 price changes, 11 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
3 new models, 2 top-10 rank changes, 12 price changes, 23 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
1 new model, 2 top-10 rank changes, 5 price changes, 13 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
4 new models, 6 top-10 rank changes, 3 price changes, 81 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
93 new models, 4 top-10 rank changes, 8 price changes, 33 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
10 new models, 9 top-10 rank changes, 6 price changes, 389 new or updated benchmark results across 20 sources.
1 new model, 4 price changes, 5 new or updated benchmark results across 19 sources.
78 new models, 2 top-10 rank changes, 112 price changes, 223 new or updated benchmark results across 19 sources.
261 new models, 10 top-10 rank changes, 122 price changes, 4579 new or updated benchmark results across 19 sources.