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State of the leaderboard: week 44, 26 October–1 November 2026

Complete week: data as of , from 7 daily updates

The week in 6 sentences

  • In week 44 of 2026 (26 October–1 November 2026), Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) held the #1 spot on the BenchLeader Index at 69.2, 0.3 points ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon (68.9).
  • 2 models entered the top 10 (Gemini 4 Carbon at #2 and GPT-6.1 Terra at #10), pushing out Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-5.5; 5 other models changed places.
  • 4 new models arrived; the highest-ranked is Gemini 4 Carbon (Google) at #2 with an index of 68.9.
  • The biggest riser was Mistral Small 3.1, up 2.9 points to 38.5; the biggest faller Command A+, down 6.9 to 45.7.
  • 43 models cut a list price and 39 models raised one; the largest cut was Laguna S 2.1's input price, 100% lower.
  • 1,329 new benchmark results were published, the most on AA Progress Index v1 (632).

Top 10 at the end of the week

The BenchLeader Index, one row per model at its best reasoning effort, against the table at the end of the previous week. Left the top 10: Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-5.5.

#ModelProviderIndexLast weekMove
1Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic69.21–
2Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle68.9–new
3GPT-6 AstraOpenAI68.23–
4GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI67.25↑1
5Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic67.14↓1
6Claude Fable 5Anthropic66.66–
7Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle65.92↓5
8Claude Opus 5Anthropic65.47↓1
9GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI65.48↓1
10GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI65.2–new

New models and their first results

  • GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI): #10 on the index at 65.2. First results: 51.0 on AA Intelligence Index v5.0; 345.2 on AA Progress Index v1; 47.3% on HLE-Diamond (AA); 64.5% on CritPt v2 hard subset (AA).
  • Gemini 4 Carbon (Google): #2 on the index at 68.9
  • Mistral Large 4 OSS (Mistral AI): not enough independent results for an index yet
  • Mistral Large 4.0.8 (Mistral AI): not enough independent results for an index yet

Biggest movers on the index

ModelProvider26 Oct 20261 Nov 2026Change
Command A+Cohere52.645.7-6.9
Granite 4.2 3BIBM45.939.2-6.7
Mistral Small 4Mistral AI46.540.2-6.3
Muse Spark OpenMeta59.553.7-5.8
MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax57.452.1-5.3
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle56.051.5-4.5
InklingThinking Machines54.450.2-4.2
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba56.152.0-4.1
Granite 4.2 30BIBM50.045.9-4.1
GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AI60.756.7-4.0

Price changes

Cheaper (43)

  • Laguna S 2.1 (no reasoning) input price moved from $0.090/M to $0.00/M (100% down).
  • Laguna XS 2.1 input price moved from $0.060/M to $0.00/M (100% down).
  • Qwen-MT Plus output price moved from $7.37/M to $0.78/M (89% down).
  • Qwen-VL (max) output price moved from $3.20/M to $0.57/M (82% down).
  • Qwen-Plus output price moved from $1.20/M to $0.29/M (76% down).
  • QwQ Plus output price moved from $2.40/M to $0.57/M (76% down).
  • Reka Flash 3 output price moved from $0.80/M to $0.20/M (75% down).
  • Qwen3.5 Plus (thinking) output price moved from $2.40/M to $0.69/M (71% down).
  • Qwen3.5 Flash input price moved from $0.10/M to $0.029/M (71% down).
  • Qwen3 Coder Flash output price moved from $1.50/M to $0.57/M (62% down).
  • Qwen3 8B (thinking) input price moved from $0.18/M to $0.072/M (60% down).
  • Qwen3 32B output price moved from $2.80/M to $1.15/M (59% down).
  • …and 31 more.

More expensive (39)

  • Qwen-MT Plus output price moved from $0.78/M to $7.37/M (851% up).
  • Qwen-VL (max) output price moved from $0.57/M to $3.20/M (457% up).
  • Qwen-Plus output price moved from $0.29/M to $1.20/M (318% up).
  • QwQ Plus output price moved from $0.57/M to $2.40/M (318% up).
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro 0424 (no reasoning) output price moved from $0.87/M to $3.49/M (301% up).
  • Qwen3.5 Plus (thinking) output price moved from $0.69/M to $2.40/M (249% up).
  • Qwen3.5 Flash input price moved from $0.029/M to $0.10/M (245% up).
  • Qwen3 Coder Flash output price moved from $0.57/M to $1.50/M (161% up).
  • Qwen3 8B (thinking) input price moved from $0.072/M to $0.18/M (150% up).
  • Qwen3 32B output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up).
  • Qwen3 235B A22B output price moved from $1.15/M to $2.80/M (144% up).
  • Qwen3 14B output price moved from $0.57/M to $1.40/M (144% up).
  • …and 27 more.

List prices per million tokens; each model's full price history is on its page and the LLM API pricing tracker.

Other weeks

← Week 45, 2–8 Nov 2026 · Week 43, 19–25 Oct 2026 → · The weekly review on the blog

Benchmark categories: AI agent benchmarks · AI coding benchmarks · Reasoning and math benchmarks · Multimodal AI benchmarks · New AI model releases

How this is built: the BenchLeader Index is recomputed with every update from independent benchmark publishers (see the methodology), and a maker's own launch numbers are never used. Past ranks are rebuilt from the daily index history of the models listed today.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “AI leaderboard week 44, 26 Oct–1 Nov 2026: who was #1”, data as of 1 Nov 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/state/2026-w44.