Kimi K3.1 Pro Together + 11 new AI models: 2 Nov–8 Nov

The week of 2 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026, from 7 daily updates.

Three things that happened

• Biggest riser: DeepSeek V3.1, up 3.5 points to 52.5 on the BenchLeader Index as new results landed.
• 12 new models arrived: LFM2.5-24B-A2B, LFM3-1.7B, lfm-3-1-7b, Kimi K3.1 Pro Together, Inkling 2 Small and more.
• Busiest benchmark: Arena Search with 22 new results; 314 new results were published in all.

Index movers

• DeepSeek V3 0324-6.4
• North Mini Code-6.4
• DeepSeek V3.1+3.5
• Solar Pro 4-2.3
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash+2.2
• Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite-1.8
• MiMo-V2.5+1.3
• Inkling 2 Small+0.9

| Model | Provider | 2 Nov 2026 | 8 Nov 2026 | Change | |---|---|---:|---:|---:| | DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | 53.4 | 47.0 | -6.4 | | North Mini Code | Cohere | 46.6 | 40.2 | -6.4 | | DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | 49.0 | 52.5 | +3.5 | | Solar Pro 4 | Upstage | 52.0 | 49.7 | -2.3 | | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | MiniMax | 52.1 | 54.3 | +2.2 | | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Google | 54.3 | 52.5 | -1.8 | | MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | 55.1 | 56.4 | +1.3 | | Inkling 2 Small | Thinking Machines | 57.5 | 58.4 | +0.9 | | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | 47.3 | 46.6 | -0.7 | | GLM 5.2 | Zhipu AI | 60.1 | 59.5 | -0.6 |

New models

• LFM2.5-24B-A2B (Liquid AI) is now listed at $0.21/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• LFM3-1.7B (Liquid AI) is now listed at $0.11/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• Lfm 3.1 7B (Liquid AI) is now listed at $0.11/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• Kimi K3.1 Pro Together (max) (Moonshot AI) appeared with 5 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #75. (details)
• Inkling 2 Small (Thinking Machines) appeared with 8 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #146. (details)
• Crouton Alpha (Unknown) is now listed; no independent results yet. (details)
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (Google) is now listed at $3.38/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (Google) is now listed at $3.38/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• Ripple-65B Preview (Ricursive) is now listed at $0.30/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
• Mistral Large 4.0 OSS (high) (Mistral AI) appeared with 5 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #336. (details)
• Nanbeige4.3-33B (Nanbeige) appeared with 4 benchmark results. (details)
• GLM 5.3 FlashX Legal (Zhipu AI) is now listed at $0.59/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)

Price changes

• Gemma 4 26B A4B cached input price moved from $0.050/M to $0.015/M (70% down).
• Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B output price moved from $2.40/M to $0.90/M (63% down).
• GLM 4.5V input price moved from $0.60/M to $0.30/M (50% down).
• GLM 4.6V output price moved from $0.90/M to $0.45/M (50% down).
• Hy4 cached input price moved from $0.042/M to $0.021/M (50% down).
• GLM-5 input price moved from $1.00/M to $0.60/M (40% down).
• GLM 5V Turbo input price moved from $1.20/M to $0.75/M (38% down).
• GLM 5.1 input price moved from $1.40/M to $0.90/M (36% down).
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (no reasoning) input price moved from $0.45/M to $0.30/M (33% down).
• GLM-4.7-FlashX cached input price moved from $0.015/M to $0.010/M (33% down).
• DeepSeek V3.1 (thinking) input price moved from $0.58/M to $0.43/M (26% down).
• GLM 4.7 input price moved from $0.60/M to $0.45/M (25% down).
• GLM-4.5-Air cached input price moved from $0.030/M to $0.024/M (20% down).
• GLM 5.3 FlashX (low) input price moved from $0.37/M to $0.30/M (19% down).
• MiMo-V2.5-Pro (thinking) output price moved from $1.02/M to $0.87/M (15% down).

Top five as of 13 Nov 2026

1. Claude Fable 5.2 — 72.7
2. Gemini 4 Carbon — 69.5
3. Claude Opus 5.5 — 68.4
4. GPT-6 Astra — 67.1
5. Claude Fable 5.1 — 66.6

More: New AI model releases this week, and the full LLM leaderboard 2026.

Generated from the week's daily updates; every line links to the page where the numbers and their sources can be checked.

The week in dated, citable sentences: state of the leaderboard, week 45.

Head to head

• Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon
• Gemini 4 Carbon vs Inkling 2 Small
• Claude Fable 5.2 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro Together