Bang for the buck

The three best models in each of the four categories — best by that category's own leaderboards, benchmarks first — among those costing under a dollar the million tokens. And the average of their sizes: how big a model leads its category at that price.

How this is worked out

A model counts if a company sells its output for under a dollar the million tokens on the ordinary lane — the current rate, not the cheapest ever recorded — and if it places on one of that category's own boards. The three shown are the top three by benchmarks: sorted by the model's best placing among that category's boards, as a share of the field, price breaking ties.

Most leaders at this price are closed and publish no parameter count. Leaving them out would answer a different question, so each is shown as about the median size of the three models nearest it in standing that do publish one. Every such figure is marked; the rest are the makers' own.

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