SimpleBench

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As of August 31, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is #1 for SimpleBench at 81.9%. Ranked by the SimpleBench score 60 models in this index have a published SimpleBench score. SimpleBench leaderboard: rank models by SimpleBench next to live API token prices.

Updated August 31, 2026345 models36 providers

SimpleBench vs price

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

Best score at each price#1 on this board


Claude Fable 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	81.9%	$60.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google · Proprietary	79.6%	$17.50
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI · Proprietary	76.9%	$540.00
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google · Proprietary	76.7%	$10.50
Gemini 3 Pro Google · Proprietary	76.4%	$14.00
Qwen3.7 Max Qwen · Proprietary	70.4%	$5.00
Grok 4.5 xAI · Proprietary	70%	$8.00
GPT-5.5 OpenAI · Proprietary	69%	$35.00
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic · Proprietary	67.6%	$30.00
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI · Proprietary	64.8%	$35.00
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · Proprietary	64.8%	$30.00
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic · Proprietary	62.9%	$30.00
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 Google · Proprietary	62.4%	$11.25
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic · Proprietary	62%	$30.00
Gemini 3 Flash Google · Proprietary	61.1%	$3.50
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	60.6%	$12.00
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic · Proprietary	60%	$90.00
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic · Proprietary	58.8%	$90.00
Kimi K2.7 CodeOSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	57.9%	$4.93
GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI · Proprietary	57.4%	$189.00
GPT-5 OpenAI · Proprietary	56.7%	$11.25
Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning xAI · Proprietary	56%	$0.70
Grok-4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning xAI · Proprietary	56%	$0.70
GLM-5.1OSS Z AI · Open Source	55.1%	$5.80
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic · Proprietary	54.3%	$18.00
GPT-5.1 OpenAI · Proprietary	53.2%	$11.25
GLM-5OSS Z AI · Open Source	53.2%	$4.20
o3 OpenAI · Proprietary	53.1%	$10.00
GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI · Proprietary	48.9%	$14.00
GLM-4.7OSS Z AI · Open Source	47.7%	$2.80
Kimi K2.5OSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	46.8%	$3.68
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI · Proprietary	46.8%	$1.40
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	46.4%	$18.00
MiniMax M3OSS MiniMax · Open Source	45.8%	$1.50
GPT-5.2 OpenAI · Proprietary	45.8%	$15.75
Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic · Proprietary	45.5%	$18.00
o1 OpenAI · Proprietary	41.7%	$75.00
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	41.4%	$18.00
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google · Proprietary	41.2%	$2.80
DeepSeek-R1-0528OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	40.8%	$2.74
DeepSeek-V3.1OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	40%	$1.27
o4-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	38.7%	$5.50
Grok-3 xAI · Proprietary	36.1%	$18.00
GPT-4.5 OpenAI · Proprietary	34.5%	$225.00
Qwen3 235B A22BOSS Qwen · Open Source	31%	$0.20
DeepSeek-R1OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	30.9%	$2.74
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	27.5%	$18.00
DeepSeek-V3 0324OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	27.2%	$1.42
GPT-4.1 OpenAI · Proprietary	27%	$10.00
Kimi K2 InstructOSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	26.3%	$1.00

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All Large Language Models

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

Cursor

2 models

Composer 2 Composer 2 Fast

xAI

17 models

Grok 4.6 Grok 4.5 Grok 4.3 Grok-4.1 Grok-4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning Grok-4.1 Thinking Grok 4 Fast Grok Code Fast 1 Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4 Fast Reasoning Grok-4 Grok-3 Grok-3 Mini Grok-2 Grok-1.5V Grok-1.5

MiniMax

7 models

MiniMax M3 MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax M2 MiniMax M1 40K MiniMax M1 80K

Qwen

55 models

Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.8-27B Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Qwen3.8 Max Qwen3.7 Flash Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen3.5-0.8B Qwen3.5-2B Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-27B Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen3 Max Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen2.5-Omni-7B QwQ-32B Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct Qwen3-Coder QvQ-72B-Preview QwQ-32B-Preview Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct Qwen2 72B Instruct Qwen2 7B Instruct

AI21 Labs

2 models

Jamba 1.5 Large Jamba 1.5 Mini

Amazon

7 models

Nova 2 Lite Nova 2 Omni Nova 2 Pro Nova 2 Sonic Nova Lite Nova Micro Nova Pro

Baidu

2 models

ERNIE 5.0 ERNIE 4.5

ByteDance

4 models

Seed 2.1 Pro Seed 2.1 Turbo Seed 2.0 Lite Seed 2.0 Pro

Cohere

4 models

North Micro Vision Instruct North Mini Code 1.0 Command A+Command R+

IBM

2 models

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Inception

1 models

Mercury 2

inclusionAI

1 models

Ling-3.0-flash

LG AI Research

1 models

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B

Liquid AI

2 models

LFM2.5-VL-3B LFM2.5-2.6B

Meituan

4 models

LongCat-Flash-Lite LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 LongCat-Flash-Thinking LongCat-Flash-Chat

Microsoft

9 models

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash MAI-Code-1-Flash MAI-Thinking-1 Phi 4 Mini Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Phi 4 Phi-3.5-mini-instruct Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Moonshot AI

11 models

Kimi K3 Kimi K2.7 Code Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2.5 Kimi K2 0905 Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 Kimi K2 Base Kimi K2 Instruct Kimi-k1.5

Nous Research

1 models

Hermes 3 70B

NVIDIA

9 models

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

OpenBMB

1 models

MiniCPM-SALA

Poolside

2 models

Laguna S 2.1 Laguna XS 2.1

Sakana AI

1 models

Sakana Namazu

Sarvam AI

2 models

Sarvam-105B Sarvam-30B

StepFun

2 models

Step-3.5-Flash Step3-VL-10B

Tencent

1 models

Hy3

Thinking Machines

1 models

Inkling-Small

Unisound

1 models

Upstage

1 models

Solar Pro 4

Xiaomi

5 models

MiMo-V2.5-Pro MiMo-V2.5 MiMo-V2-Omni MiMo-V2-Pro MiMo-V2-Flash

Which model leads SimpleBench right now?

As of August 31, 2026, Claude Fable 5 by Anthropic is #1 for SimpleBench at 81.9%. Ranked by the SimpleBench score This board also tracks SimpleBench. Next on the same board: Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.5 Pro. This simplebench leaderboard ranks models by SimpleBench. 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 simplebench. Ranked by the SimpleBench score Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
Rank	Model	SimpleBench	Input /M	Output /M
1	Claude Fable 5	81.9%	$10.00	$50.00
2	Gemini 3.1 Pro	79.6%	$2.50	$15.00
3	GPT-5.5 Pro	76.9%	$60.00	$480.00
4	Gemini 3.5 Flash	76.7%	$1.50	$9.00
5	Gemini 3 Pro	76.4%	$2.00	$12.00
6	Qwen3.7 Max	70.4%	$1.25	$3.75
7	Grok 4.5	70%	$2.00	$6.00
8	GPT-5.5	69%	$5.00	$30.00

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SimpleBench FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the SimpleBench leaderboard?

As of August 31, 2026, Claude Fable 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on SimpleBench at 81.9%. API pricing is $10.00/M input and $50.00/M output.

What are the top models on SimpleBench?

The current SimpleBench ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. Claude Fable 5 at 81.9%; 2. Gemini 3.1 Pro at 79.6%; 3. GPT-5.5 Pro at 76.9%.

Which simplebench model is the cheapest?

Qwen3 235B A22B is the cheapest scored model on this simplebench leaderboard at $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.20 blended). Claude Fable 5 still leads SimpleBench at 81.9%.

Should I always pick the #1 SimpleBench model?

Not automatically. Claude Fable 5 leads SimpleBench, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh SimpleBench against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

How often is the SimpleBench 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 SimpleBench?

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

Where is the SimpleBench leaderboard?

This page is the SimpleBench leaderboard. Models are sorted by SimpleBench, 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 SimpleBench ranking different from the official board?

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

SimpleBench vs price

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All Large Language Models

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google

Cursor

xAI

DeepSeek

MiniMax

Qwen

AI21 Labs

Amazon

Baidu

ByteDance

Cohere

IBM

Inception

inclusionAI

LG AI Research

Liquid AI

Meituan

Meta

Microsoft

Mistral

Moonshot AI

Nous Research

NVIDIA

OpenBMB

Poolside

Sakana AI

Sarvam AI

StepFun

Tencent

Thinking Machines

Unisound

Upstage

Xiaomi

Z AI

Which model leads SimpleBench right now?

Related LLM leaderboards

Individual benchmark pages

SimpleBench FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the SimpleBench leaderboard?

What are the top models on SimpleBench?

Which simplebench model is the cheapest?

Should I always pick the #1 SimpleBench model?

How often is the SimpleBench leaderboard updated?

What is SimpleBench?

Where is the SimpleBench leaderboard?

How is this SimpleBench ranking different from the official board?