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Mercury 2.5Granite 4.2 30BGemma 4 12B
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Hard reasoning: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 179 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Gemma 4 E4B, Sarvam 30B, Qwen3.5 4B, Sarvam 105B, Ling 3.0 Flash, MiMo-V2.5, GPT-6 Luna, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next, GLM-5.3 Flash, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Muse Spark 1.3, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5. 70 models are not plotted: Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, Solar Open2 250B, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, G9v3-39A5B, K2 Horizon 7B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, EXAONE 4.5 33B, Nanbeige4.1-3B, HyperNova 60B 2605, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B, INTELLECT-3, Apriel-v1.6-15B-Thinker, Command A+, K2 Horizon 3.7B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Think V2, Step3 VL 10B, DiffusionGemma 26B A4B, K2-V2, North Mini Code, Falcon-H1R-7B, Solar Open 100B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, MiniCPM5-2B, LongCat Flash Lite, HyperCLOVA X SEED Think (32B), Tri-21B-Think, EXAONE 4.0 32B, Olmo 3.1 32B Think, LFM2.5-2.6B, Devstral 2, LFM2.5-8B-A1B, Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct, Olmo 3 7B Think, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B, Devstral Small 2, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.5 2B, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B, LFM2 24B A2B, Exaone 4.0 1.2B, Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision), Gemma 4 E2B, Molmo2-8B, LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, MiniCPM5-1B, Jamba 1.7 Large, MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct, Granite 4.0 Micro, Jamba Reasoning 3B, Jamba 1.7 Mini, Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, Tiny Aya Global, LFM2.5-VL-1.6B, Granite 4.0 H 350M, K2 Horizon 0.9B, Qwen3.5 0.8B, Granite 4.0 350M, Granite 4.0 H 1B, Molmo 7B-D, Gemma 3 270M.

70 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, Solar Open2 250B, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, G9v3-39A5B, K2 Horizon 7B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, EXAONE 4.5 33B, Nanbeige4.1-3B, HyperNova 60B 2605, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B, INTELLECT-3, Apriel-v1.6-15B-Thinker, Command A+, K2 Horizon 3.7B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Think V2, Step3 VL 10B, DiffusionGemma 26B A4B, K2-V2, North Mini Code, Falcon-H1R-7B, Solar Open 100B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, MiniCPM5-2B, LongCat Flash Lite, HyperCLOVA X SEED Think (32B), Tri-21B-Think, EXAONE 4.0 32B, Olmo 3.1 32B Think, LFM2.5-2.6B, Devstral 2, LFM2.5-8B-A1B, Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct, Olmo 3 7B Think, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B, Devstral Small 2, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.5 2B, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B, LFM2 24B A2B, Exaone 4.0 1.2B, Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision), Gemma 4 E2B, Molmo2-8B, LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, MiniCPM5-1B, Jamba 1.7 Large, MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct, Granite 4.0 Micro, Jamba Reasoning 3B, Jamba 1.7 Mini, Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, Tiny Aya Global, LFM2.5-VL-1.6B, Granite 4.0 H 350M, K2 Horizon 0.9B, Qwen3.5 0.8B, Granite 4.0 350M, Granite 4.0 H 1B, Molmo 7B-D, Gemma 3 270M

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Mercury 2.5
    Quality
    31.3
    Rank
    #115/182
    Price
    $0.34/M tok
    Speed
    781tok/s
    In$0.20Out$0.75/M tok

    vs Granite 4.2 30B: −1.6 quality · 1.2× price

  • Granite 4.2 30B
    Quality
    32.9
    Rank
    #114/182
    Price
    $0.28/M tok
    Speed
    77tok/s
    In$0.16Out$0.65/M tok

    vs Mercury 2.5: +1.6 quality · 0.84× price

  • Gemma 4 12B
    Quality
    30.3
    Rank
    #116/182
    Price
    $0.15/M tok
    Speed
    118tok/s
    In$0.10▾Out$0.30▾/M tok

    vs Granite 4.2 30B: −2.6 quality · 0.53× price

Overview

Lab
Inception
IBM Granite
Google DeepMind
Released
Sep 8, 2026
Aug 25, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Open
Input price
$/M tok
$0.20
$0.16
$0.10Best
Output price
$/M tok
$0.75
$0.65
$0.30Best
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
$0.338
$0.282
$0.15Best
Output speed
tok/s
781Best
77
118
Context
tokens
260K
131K
262KBest

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

28.1±8.0Best
#79/103Verified
27.3±10.0
#82/103Verified
Not ranked
Not ranked
Not ranked
36.6±9.5
#82/146Verifiedbest value
Not ranked
Not ranked
36.5±8.2
#56/82Verified
31.3±5.1
#115/182Verified
32.9±5.8Best
#114/182Verified
30.3±5.8
#116/182Verified
21.8±7.8
#113/173Verified
25.4±5.8
#105/173Verified
26.7±10.0Best
#99/173Verified

Hard reasoning benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Benchmarks in other categories (4)

Coding benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

~last/15below measured range (<41.1)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~last/15below measured range (<41.1)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
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Writing & chat benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Vision benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

MMMU
day 0
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~#2/3~71.3%Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
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~last/9below measured range (<74.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
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GDP.pdf (AA)
third-party
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Chartography
third-party
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~last/23below measured range (<9.0%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks

Agents benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks