Cost per task: summarize a 30-page report
12,000 tokens of document in, a 600-token summary out. Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at the provider's cache-read price.
As of 25 Oct 2026, BenchLeader ranks Gemma 4 E4B first on the Cost per task: summarize a 30-page report board at $0.0003, ahead of Granite 4.2 3B ($0.0004) and LFM2 24B A2B ($0.0004).
287 models · data as of 25 Oct 2026
- 1Gemma 4 E4B (thinking)$0.0003
- 2Granite 4.2 3B$0.0004
- 3LFM2 24B A2B$0.0004
- 4Llama 3.2 1B Instruct$0.0004
- 5Qwen3.5 Flash$0.0005
- 6Qwen3.5-4B (thinking)$0.0005
- 7Gemma 4 E2B (thinking)$0.0005
- 8Granite 3.3 8B (none)$0.0005
- 9Llama 3.1 8B$0.0005
- 10NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 (thinking)$0.0006
- 11Sarvam 105B (high)$0.0006
- 12Nova Micro$0.0006
- 13Mistral Small 3$0.0006
- 14Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (thinking)$0.0007
- 15gpt-oss-20b (high)$0.0007
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| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.468 | – | 65.3 | |
| 2 | $0.468 | – | 63.3 | |
| 3 | $0.396 | – | 42.4 | |
| 4 | $0.396 | – | 39.7 | |
| 5 | $0.288 | – | 53.7 | |
| 6 | $0.252 | – | 59.8 | |
| 7 | $0.225 | $0.103 | 56.4 | |
| 8 | $0.225 | $0.103 | 55.0 | |
| 9 | $0.225 | – | 39.2 | |
| 10 | $0.216 | $0.148 | 53.1 | |
| 11 | $0.150 | $0.062 | 70.5 | |
| 12 | $0.150 | $0.069 | 70.4 | |
| 13 | $0.150 | $0.069 | 69.3 | |
| 14 | $0.138 | – | 40.9 | |
| 15 | $0.078 | $0.037 | 66.1 | |
| 16 | $0.078 | – | 58.0 | |
| 17 | $0.075 | $0.035 | 68.8 | |
| 18 | $0.075 | $0.035 | 63.3 | |
| 19 | $0.075 | $0.035 | 63.2 | |
| 20 | $0.075 | $0.035 | 62.7 | |
| 21 | $0.075 | $0.035 | 59.9 | |
| 22 | $0.060 | $0.026 | 72.6 | |
| 23 | $0.060 | $0.028 | 68.0 | |
| 24 | $0.060 | $0.026 | 67.5 | |
| 25 | $0.055 | – | 40.2 | |
| 26 | $0.045 | $0.021 | 64.8 | |
| 27 | $0.045 | $0.021 | 58.1 | |
| 28 | $0.045 | – | 58.0 | |
| 29 | $0.045 | $0.021 | 57.1 | |
| 30 | $0.045 | $0.021 | 53.2 | |
| 31 | $0.045 | – | 51.5 | |
| 32 | $0.045 | – | 46.3 | |
| 33 | $0.039 | $0.019 | 64.7 | |
| 34 | $0.037 | $0.021 | 45.3 | |
| 35 | $0.036 | $0.025 | 43.9 | |
| 36 | $0.036 | – | 41.8 | |
| 37 | $0.035 | $0.015 | 60.6 | |
| 38 | $0.031 | $0.015 | 64.4 | |
| 39 | $0.031 | $0.015 | 60.5 | |
| 40 | $0.030 | $0.013 | 70.7 | |
| 41 | $0.030 | $0.013 | 69.9 | |
| 42 | $0.030 | $0.013 | 69.4 | |
| 43 | New | $0.030 | $0.014 | 66.9 |
| 44 | $0.030 | $0.014 | 66.4 | |
| 45 | $0.030 | $0.014 | 60.1 | |
| 46 | $0.029 | $0.015 | 63.8 | |
| 47 | $0.029 | $0.015 | 60.7 | |
| 48 | $0.029 | $0.015 | 59.4 | |
| 49 | $0.029 | $0.015 | 59.5 | |
| 50 | $0.029 | $0.015 | 48.3 | |
| 51 | $0.029 | – | 42.2 | |
| 52 | $0.029 | – | 26.0 | |
| 53 | $0.028 | $0.014 | 64.2 | |
| 54 | $0.028 | $0.014 | 63.9 | |
| 55 | $0.028 | $0.012 | 63.3 | |
| 56 | $0.028 | $0.012 | 61.0 | |
| 57 | $0.028 | $0.012 | 59.3 | |
| 58 | $0.028 | – | 41.9 | |
| 59 | $0.028 | – | 40.7 | |
| 60 | $0.028 | – | 37.4 |
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Cost per task: summarize a 30-page report”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/leaderboards/cost-summarize-report.