Beam 1.0 price cut (22 Oct 2026)
Beam 1.0 got cheaper. 102 price changes, 16 new benchmark results.
BenchLeader refreshed 1603 models from 24 of 24 data feeds (benchmark publishers, aggregators and price lists). 102 price changes, 16 new or updated benchmark results across 24 data feeds.
Price changes
- Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) input price moved from $0.38/M to $0.75/M (97% up). (details)
- Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) output price moved from $1.88/M to $3.75/M (99% up). (details)
- Qwen3.8 Max (max) cached input price moved from $0.22/M to $0.25/M (13% up). (details)
- Qwen3 7 (max) cached input price moved from $0.33/M to $0.50/M (52% up). (details)
- Qwen3.6 Plus cached input price moved from $0.028/M to $0.050/M (81% up). (details)
- Qwen3.7 Plus cached input price moved from $0.028/M to $0.040/M (45% up). (details)
- Qwen3.5 Plus (thinking) input price moved from $0.12/M to $0.40/M (248% up). (details)
- Qwen3.5 Plus (thinking) output price moved from $0.69/M to $2.40/M (249% up). (details)
- Qwen3.5 Flash input price moved from $0.029/M to $0.10/M (245% up). (details)
- Qwen3.5 Flash output price moved from $0.29/M to $0.40/M (39% up). (details)
- Qwen3 32B input price moved from $0.29/M to $0.70/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3 32B output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up). (details)
- Beam 1.0 input price moved from $0.70/M to $0.40/M (43% down). (details)
- Beam 1.0 output price moved from $2.10/M to $1.20/M (43% down). (details)
- Beam 1.0 cost per task moved from 0.5 to 0.2 (56% down). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B input price moved from $0.29/M to $0.70/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen-Plus input price moved from $0.12/M to $0.40/M (248% up). (details)
- Qwen-Plus output price moved from $0.29/M to $1.20/M (318% up). (details)
- Qwen3 14B input price moved from $0.14/M to $0.35/M (143% up). (details)
- Qwen3 14B output price moved from $0.57/M to $1.40/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B (no reasoning) input price moved from $0.29/M to $0.70/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B (no reasoning) output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3.6 Flash input price moved from $0.17/M to $0.25/M (52% up). (details)
- Qwen3.6 Flash output price moved from $0.99/M to $1.50/M (52% up). (details)
- Qwen3.6 Flash cached input price moved from $0.017/M to $0.025/M (52% up). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B (thinking) input price moved from $0.29/M to $0.70/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen3 235B A22B (thinking) output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up). (details)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct input price moved from $0.072/M to $0.17/M (143% up). (details)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct output price moved from $0.14/M to $0.70/M (386% up). (details)
- …and 72 more.
New benchmark results
- Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA): 11 new results, including GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Sol, Muse Wonder… (board)
- FrontierCode 1.1 (AA): 4 new results, including Muse Wonder, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Beam 1.0… (board)
- GDPval-AA v2.1: 1 new result, including K Exaone 2.0 0803 (board)
Speed changes
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 time to first token changed from 1.12 s to 1.82 s. (details)
- Kimi K3 time to first token changed from 1.00 s to 1.39 s. (details)
- GLM 5.3 time to first token changed from 0.83 s to 1.19 s. (details)
- GPT-5.6 Terra time to first answer changed from 9.66 s to 14.85 s. (details)
- GPT-5.6 Terra response time changed from 14.11 s to 19.50 s. (details)
- GPT-5.2 time to first token changed from 1.19 s to 2.45 s. (details)
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash time to first token changed from 2.86 s to 4.23 s. (details)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash time to first token changed from 0.81 s to 1.23 s. (details)
- Qwen3.5 Plus time to first token changed from 0.69 s to 0.96 s. (details)
- o4-mini time to first token changed from 2.67 s to 3.72 s. (details)
- Mistral Large 4 time to first token changed from 4.22 s to 1.70 s. (details)
- Qwen3.8 27B time to first token changed from 1.37 s to 0.71 s. (details)
- GLM 5V Turbo time to first token changed from 1.99 s to 3.10 s. (details)
- Inkling Small time to first token changed from 0.78 s to 0.42 s. (details)
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B time to first token changed from 0.40 s to 0.58 s. (details)
- …and 44 more.
Today's top five
- Claude Opus 5.5 (max) — 72.6
- Gemini 4 Argon (high) — 70.7
- Muse Wonder Full (max) — 70.6
- Claude Fable 5.1 (max) — 70.5
- GPT-6 Astra (max) — 70.4
More: New AI model releases this week, and the full LLM leaderboard 2026.
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