BenchLeader

Step 3.5 Flash

Best configuration ranks #189 of 610 on the BenchLeader Index at 54.9 ±3.7. Last measured 2 Sept 2026. Released 11 Feb 2026.

Blended price
$0.150/M
$0.100 in · $0.300 out
Output speed
216 tok/s
First answer
10 s
first token 1.30 s
Context
256k
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index55
  2. Reasoning58
  3. Coding59
  4. Agents & tools62
  5. Maths52
  6. Knowledge44
  7. Instruction following65
  8. Human preference58
  9. Long context58
  10. Composite50

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

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LMArena Hard Prompts1414#141LMArena
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index83.1%#158Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index24.5%#137Artificial Analysis

Coding

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LMArena Coding1451#126LMArena

Agents & tools

Maths

Knowledge

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AA-Omniscience-41.8#263Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

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IFBench66.5%#93Artificial Analysis

Human preference

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LMArena Text1394#138LMArena

Long context

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AA-LCR63.0%#206Artificial Analysis

Composite

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AA Intelligence Index17.0#203Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
SiliconFlow71 tok/s1.30 s$0.100$0.300262kfp8

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.020 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0001$0.000111.7 s
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.0014$0.000713.1 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.0011$0.000717.2 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.0072$0.003628.8 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0003$0.000111.2 s

See also

Data as of 9 Sept 2026. Compare with another model.