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LiveBench Reasoning — cost vs performance

Best current row per canonical model in the group “average score · variant=Reasoning” (57 models) against total parameters. The dashed line is the Pareto frontier: no model is both better and cheaper than a point on it.

open / restricted weights closed Pareto frontier (3 models)

Frontier models 3

Pareto frontier
Modelaverage score on LiveBench ReasoningRanktotal parametersProviderTrust
Kimi K3Moonshot AI · Open weights90.7%52.78TOfficial board
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731)DeepSeek · Open weights86.6%25304.2BOfficial board
Qwen3.8 27BQwen · Open weights80.0%4227.8BOfficial board

Methodology. Points are the best current row per canonical model in comparability group 'average score · variant=Reasoning'. Price = cheapest current offer across providers (the provider shown). Pareto frontier maximises the score and minimises x; exact ties are all kept. memory_estimate is an estimate (see /methodology). Only the selected comparability group is plotted; points under other configurations are not mixed in. Price = cheapest current offer across providers at the time of the last crawl. Nothing is estimated except where marked.