Value ranking
Best value on SimpleQA Verified
As of October 25, 2026, the best value on SimpleQA Verified is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, at 2635.50 normalized points per dollar of input price ($0.02 per million tokens, score 52.7).
A human-validated factuality benchmark of short factual questions whose answers can be checked against a single ground truth. Penalises hallucinations by scoring confidently-wrong answers below abstentions.
“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.
- 1DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek2635.5052.7 / $0.02/M
- 2GPT-6 LunaOpenAI1011.4050.6 / $0.05/M
- 3DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek935.5539.5 / $0.04/M
- 4GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI500.0050.0 / $0.10/M
- 5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek347.6052.1 / $0.15/M
- 6Gemini 3 FlashGoogle347.4486.9 / $0.25/M
- 7GPT-5 nanoOpenAI325.608.1 / $0.03/M
- 8Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba (Qwen)314.7720.5 / $0.07/M
- 9DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek280.4658.6 / $0.21/M
- 10Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic254.3025.4 / $0.10/M
- 11Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle242.6791.0 / $0.38/M
- 12Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle240.7790.3 / $0.38/M
- 13Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle229.3386.0 / $0.38/M
- 14GPT-5 miniOpenAI178.3222.3 / $0.13/M
- 15Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba (Qwen)167.6654.5 / $0.33/M
- 16Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle114.6786.0 / $0.75/M
- 17Qwen3 235B (Thinking)Alibaba (Qwen)109.3349.2 / $0.45/M
- 18DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek101.5367.0 / $0.66/M
- 19Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle100.00100.0 / $1.00/M
- 20GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI97.0097.0 / $1.00/M
- 21Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle96.4396.4 / $1.00/M
- 22GPT-5.1OpenAI96.0060.0 / $0.63/M
- 23GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI89.1533.4 / $0.38/M
- 24GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI81.408.1 / $0.10/M
- 25GPT-6 SolOpenAI78.1478.1 / $1.00/M
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