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SciCode — cost vs performance

Best current row per canonical model in the group “accuracy · evaluator=Artificial Analysis” (129 models) against ESTIMATED memory at 4-bit, 8K context (GB). 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 (8 models)bubble = context windowEstimated

Frontier models 8

Pareto frontier
Modelaccuracy on SciCodeRankESTIMATED memory at 4-bit, 8K context (GB)ProviderTrust
Kimi K3Moonshot AI · Open weights59.5%51.6K GBest.Independent
GLM 5.3Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · Open weights59.0%6433.7 GBest.Independent
GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · Open weights51.6%28185.3 GBest.Independent
MiniMax M2.7MiniMax · Open weights50.1%37132 GBest.Independent
Qwen3.8 27BQwen · Open weights46.6%5116.5 GBest.Independent
gpt-oss-20bOpenAI · Open weights38.9%8612.5 GBest.Independent
Qwen3 8BQwen · Open weights27.9%1155.2 GBest.Independent
LFM2.5-2.6B (free)Liquid AI · Open weights14.3%1292.1 GBest.Independent

Methodology. Points are the best current row per canonical model in comparability group 'accuracy · evaluator=Artificial Analysis'. 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.