Blink

    ๐Ÿ† Leaderboard

    As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro is #1 for Blink at 81.4%. Ranked by the Blink score 15 models in this index have a published Blink score. Blink leaderboard: rank models by Blink next to live API token prices.

    Updated August 31, 2026345 models36 providers

    Blink vs price

    15 models. Left is cheaper. Up is a higher score. The line is the best score you can buy at each price โ€” a dot under it is a worse deal than something on the line.

    Best score at each price#1 on this board
    Seed 2.1 Pro
    ByteDance ยท Proprietary
    81.4%$5.34
    Seed 2.1 Turbo
    ByteDance ยท Proprietary
    79.4%$3.00
    Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    70.7%$1.79
    Qwen3 VL 8B InstructOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    69.1%$0.58
    Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    68.7%$2.27
    Qwen3 VL 32B ThinkingOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    68.5%$0.80
    Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    67.7%$0.90
    Qwen3 VL 32B InstructOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source ยท via OpenRouter
    67.3%$0.52
    Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    67.1%$3.94
    Qwen3 VL 4B InstructOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    65.8%$0.70
    Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    65.4%$1.20
    Qwen3 VL 4B ThinkingOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    63.4%$1.10
    LFM2.5-VL-3BOSS
    Liquid AI ยท Open Source
    61.5%$0.15
    Phi-4-multimodal-instructOSS
    Microsoft ยท Open Source
    61.3%$0.15
    North Micro Vision InstructOSS
    Cohere ยท Open Source
    52.7%$0.75
    ChatGPT-4o Latest
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$12.50
    Claude 3 Haiku
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$1.50
    Claude 3 Opus
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$90.00
    Claude 3 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.5 Haiku
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$4.80
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude Fable 5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$60.00
    Claude Haiku 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$6.00
    Claude Mythos 5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$60.00
    Claude Mythos Preview
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$60.00
    Claude Opus 4
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$90.00
    Claude Opus 4.1
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$90.00
    Claude Opus 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$30.00
    Claude Opus 4.6
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$30.00
    Claude Opus 4.7
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$30.00
    Claude Opus 4.8
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$30.00
    Claude Opus 5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$30.00
    Claude Sonnet 4
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude Sonnet 4.6
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude Sonnet 5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$12.00
    Codestral-22BOSS
    Mistral ยท Open Source ยท via Mistral AI
    โ€”$1.20
    Command A+OSS
    Cohere ยท Open Source
    โ€”$12.50
    Command R+OSS
    Cohere ยท Open Source
    โ€”$1.25
    Composer 2
    Cursor ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$3.00
    Composer 2 Fast
    Cursor ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$9.00
    DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BOSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    โ€”$0.50
    DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BOSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    โ€”$0.30
    DeepSeek VL2OSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source ยท via Replicate
    โ€”$2.80
    DeepSeek VL2 SmallOSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source ยท via Replicate
    โ€”$1.70
    DeepSeek VL2 TinyOSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source ยท via Replicate
    โ€”$0.90
    DeepSeek-R1OSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    โ€”$2.74
    DeepSeek-R1-0528OSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    โ€”$2.74
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    The index

    All Large Language Models

    345 models across 36 providers. Search or jump to a lab โ€” every model page stays linked here.

    Baidu

    2 models

    Inception

    1 models

    inclusionAI

    1 models

    LG AI Research

    1 models

    Liquid AI

    2 models

    Nous Research

    1 models

    OpenBMB

    1 models

    Sakana AI

    1 models

    Sarvam AI

    2 models

    Tencent

    1 models

    Thinking Machines

    1 models

    Unisound

    1 models

    Upstage

    1 models

    Which model leads Blink right now?

    As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro by ByteDance is #1 for Blink at 81.4%. Ranked by the Blink score This board also tracks Blink. Next on the same board: Seed 2.1 Turbo and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. This blink leaderboard ranks models by Blink. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.

    Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)

    Top 8 for blink. Ranked by the Blink score Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
    RankModelBlinkInput /MOutput /M
    1Seed 2.1 Pro81.4%$0.89$4.45
    2Seed 2.1 Turbo79.4%$0.50$2.50
    3Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct70.7%$0.30$1.49
    4Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct69.1%$0.08$0.50
    5Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking68.7%$0.18$2.09
    6Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking68.5%$0.16$0.64
    7Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct67.7%$0.20$0.70
    8Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct67.3%$0.10$0.42

    Blink FAQ

    Who ranks #1 on the Blink leaderboard?

    As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro by ByteDance ranks #1 on Blink at 81.4%. API pricing is $0.89/M input and $4.45/M output.

    What are the top models on Blink?

    The current Blink ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. Seed 2.1 Pro at 81.4%; 2. Seed 2.1 Turbo at 79.4%; 3. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 70.7%.

    Which blink model is the cheapest?

    LFM2.5-VL-3B is the cheapest scored model on this blink leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.15 blended). Seed 2.1 Pro still leads Blink at 81.4%.

    Should I always pick the #1 Blink model?

    Not automatically. Seed 2.1 Pro leads Blink, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Blink against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

    How often is the Blink leaderboard updated?

    Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 31, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.

    What is Blink?

    Blink is a public LLM eval (the Blink score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.

    Where is the Blink leaderboard?

    This page is the Blink leaderboard. Models are sorted by Blink, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.

    How is this Blink ranking different from the official board?

    Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published Blink score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.