Who's fastest, and what it costs to run them.
As of Oct 20, 2026, Opus 5.5 leads the Model Standings at 58, 2 points clear of Sonnet 5.5. Haiku 5.5 gives the most score per dollar, at $0.10 in and $0.50 out per million tokens. Most used this week: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with 24% of OpenRouter tokens and 22% on Vercel AI Gateway. 14 LLMs from 8 labs; 3 not yet scored.
- Busiest model on OpenRouter that is not on our grid: MiMo-V2.6-Flash (Xiaomi), 5.5% of tokens.
- Biggest move on Vercel AI Gateway since the day before: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, 24.0% → 22.2% of tokens.
- Biggest move on OpenRouter since the day before: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, 22.9% → 23.7% of tokens.
- Gemini 4 Argon is new on OpenRouter this week, with 0.6% of tokens.
- Grok 4.7 nearly doubled its Vercel AI Gateway share week on week: 1.1% → 2.1%.
- GlimpseElorian · OpenRouter · Vercel · listed Oct 16
- Mercury 3Inception · OpenRouter · Vercel · listed Oct 16
- Muse Spark OpenMeta · OpenRouter · Vercel · listed Oct 15
| Pos | Model | Score | Gap | $ in / out | Laps | Test lap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Opus 5.5Anthropic | Leader | $4 / $20 | 4.2%▲6.3%▲ | – | |
| P2 | Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | −2 | $2 / $10 | 1.5%▲– | – | |
| P3 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | −5 | $2 / $10 | 0.6%▲– | – | |
| P4 | Fable 5.1Anthropic | −5 | $10 / $50 | 0.0%▼– | – | |
| P5 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | −5 | $10 / $50 | 0.1%▼– | – | |
| P6 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | −6 | $2 / $10 | 1.2%▼– | – | |
| P7 | Grok 4.7xAI | −12 | $2 / $6 | 0.0%▼2.1%▲ | – | |
| P8 | GLM-5.3Zhipu | −13 | $1.40 / $4.40 | 3.3%▲11%▲ | – | |
| P9 | Kimi K3Moonshot | −14 | $3 / $15 | 1.1%▼2.4%▼ | – | |
| P10 | Haiku 5.5TrackAnthropic | −15 | $0.10 / $0.50* | 1.2%▲– | Track | |
| P11 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | −20 | $0.10 / $0.50 | 3.8%▼5.8%▼ | – | |
| NC | V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.30 / $1.20* | 24%▲22%▼ | – | ||
| NC | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 / $3.75 | 1.0%▼– | – | ||
| NC | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | $1.25 / $4.25 | 0.0%▼– | – |
In the news this week.
Headlines from the labs' own news pages and the two gateways' launch notes, in the seven days to Oct 20, 2026. Their words, linked to the source; we only pick which ones.
- OpenAIFranchisee reconciles cash in 94% less time with ChatGPT Work
- OpenAITerminal X matches senior investor judgment 88.6% with GPT-6.1
- OpenAIOpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
- VercelMercury 3 now available on AI Gateway
- VercelMiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for free
- VercelAI Gateway logs now show session affinity
- Google DeepMindAccelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
- Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection
- OpenRouterPrivate Endpoints: Bring Your Fine-Tuned Models and Capacity to OpenRouter
Smarter costs more. Not always.
Score against blended list price, on a log scale. The line joins the models nothing else beats on both: every model off the line has a rival at least as smart for less. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers. Unscored models sit this one out.
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Score is the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, taken from their public results and compared only within the same index version. Price is list, in US dollars per million tokens, input / output; open-weight prices are the first-party API, and hosts on OpenRouter often go lower. Blended price weighs input three to one, the shape of a typical agent turn. Laps is each model's share of all tokens over the last seven days on OpenRouter and on Vercel AI Gateway, two different crowds of developers; the arrow compares it with the seven days before, and a dash means too small to call. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of Oct 21, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Vercel AI Gateway usage data, as of Oct 20, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
A verdict from putting the model on real work for a while, not a benchmark. Track means we would send real work to it today. Traffic means fine, nothing special. Pit lane means not ready. Most models have not had a lap yet.
Timing by sleds, which routes work across every lab and favours none. The board updates every morning, and every day keeps its own page, so a link to a day always shows that day. Quote it freely with a link back. The numbers behind it are open too, as JSON.
Past days.
Every day's board is kept as it stood, with that day's notes and headlines. Pick a day to see who led and what moved.