Value ranking
Best value on HumanEval
As of October 25, 2026, the best value on HumanEval is Qwen3 235B, at 920.89 normalized points per dollar of input price ($0.09 per million tokens, score 82.9).
164 hand-written Python programming problems scored by passing unit tests. Saturated for frontier models.
“Value” is normalized benchmark score (0–100 for this leaderboard cohort) divided by input price per million tokens. Higher means more capability per dollar on this axis only — always sanity-check latency, context length, and your real workload.
- 1Qwen3 235BAlibaba (Qwen)920.8982.9 / $0.09/M
- 2Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle680.2068.0 / $0.10/M
- 3Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta635.1063.5 / $0.10/M
- 4Llama 4 ScoutMeta527.0052.7 / $0.10/M
- 5Llama 4 MaverickMeta391.5773.4 / $0.19/M
- 6GPT-4o miniOpenAI387.4058.1 / $0.15/M
- 7DeepSeek V3DeepSeek214.3462.2 / $0.29/M
- 8DeepSeek R1DeepSeek198.2099.1 / $0.50/M
- 9Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)153.9255.4 / $0.36/M
- 10Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle152.8095.5 / $0.63/M
- 11o3-miniOpenAI78.6386.5 / $1.10/M
- 12Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic77.7062.2 / $0.80/M
- 13Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta69.8227.9 / $0.40/M
- 14o3OpenAI46.8493.7 / $2.00/M
- 15Gemini 1.5 ProGoogle35.3144.1 / $1.25/M
- 16Grok 2xAI31.7563.5 / $2.00/M
- 17Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic31.0893.2 / $3.00/M
- 18Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic29.1387.4 / $3.00/M
- 19Mistral Large 2Mistral29.0558.1 / $2.00/M
- 20GPT-4oOpenAI28.6571.6 / $2.50/M
- 21o1-miniOpenAI27.1881.5 / $3.00/M
- 22Grok 3xAI25.8377.5 / $3.00/M
- 23Llama 3.1 405B InstructMeta18.9266.2 / $3.50/M
- 24Claude Opus 4Anthropic6.67100.0 / $15.00/M
- 25o1OpenAI5.4481.5 / $15.00/M
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