Best AI model per dollar for reasoning — October 2026
As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon & Gemini 3.8 Flash & GLM 5.3 & Mimo V2.6 Pro & DeepSeek V4.1 Flash & Mimo V2.6 Flash & Hy3 & DeepSeek V4 Flash are tied for state of the art in Reasoning, best per dollar (tracked since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).
Leading, crown pending confirmation: GLM 5.3 Flash.
Ranks
Last crown changes
Crown changes for this board are still empty as of Oct 14, 2026.
Which benchmarks count
- Humanity's Last Exam — primary, weight 1
- GPQA Diamond — primary, weight 1
- LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) — primary, weight 1
- LiveBench — secondary, weight 0.35
Who is SOTA in Reasoning, best per dollar?
As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon & Gemini 3.8 Flash & GLM 5.3 & Mimo V2.6 Pro & DeepSeek V4.1 Flash & Mimo V2.6 Flash & Hy3 & DeepSeek V4 Flash are tied for state of the art in Reasoning, best per dollar (tracked since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).
Since when is the Reasoning, best per dollar crown current?
The current crown in Reasoning, best per dollar has been tracked since Oct 14, 2026.