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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next released

Alibaba · Aug 26, 2026

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GLM-5.3-Flash released

Z.AI · Aug 26, 2026

Apodex 1.1 released

Apodex · Aug 24, 2026

Decision-ready picks

Current models that clear the ranking, freshness, and evidence thresholds for each decision.

Qualification method

DecisionModelCurrent measureProvenance

Best open weightHighest-scoring evidence-qualified current open-weight model.Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba79.18overall scoreSupported · 2 source families
Best near-frontier value97% of the leading score at a lower output price.Kimi K3Moonshot AI$15output / 1M tokensSupported · 2 source families
Fastest measuredFastest externally measured model that also clears the ranking and evidence thresholds.Ling 3.0 FlashInclusionAI394tokens / secArtificial Analysis · updated 2026-08-24
Largest useful contextLargest context among evidence-qualified current models retaining at least half of the leading score.Grok 4.20xAI2Mcontext windowEstimated · 1 source family

Qualification method

The LLM leaderboard — August 2026 rankings

Benchmarks, pricing, runtime signals, and context window in one table. Filter state syncs to the URL so every view is shareable. Supported and Estimated labels show how much independent evidence backs each position.

Methodology Providers AI Race

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LLM leaderboard table

1 Claude Mythos 5 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M+	$10.00 / $50.00	Not measured	Not measured	83.26	76	82	—	85	97	—	—	—	—
2 Claude Fable 5 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M+	$10.00 / $50.00	71	132.67s	83.01	75	81	—	61	69	—	—	—	1507.77
3 Claude Opus 5 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	—	$5.00 / $25.00	59	51.98s	82.94	80	79	84	86	97	—	—	—	1492.59
4 GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAISupported	OpenAI	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1.05M	$5.00 / $30.00	72	146.36s	82.04	68	79	85	83	86	—	—	97	1482.26
5 Kimi K3 Moonshot AISupported	Moonshot AI	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1.05M	$3.00 / $15.00	34	62.05s	80.45	74	79	—	86	84	—	—	—	1485.33
6 Qwen3.8 Max AlibabaSupported Self-host	Alibaba	Open	Current	Reasoning	1M	Not listed	69	31.30s	79.18	73	66	96	87	65	—	94	—	1481.01
7 Muse Spark 1.1 MetaSupported	Meta	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	Not listed	217	12.12s	77	61	66	—	72	93	—	—	—	1490.75
8 Claude Opus 4.8 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	61	26.63s	76.45	61	72	68	85	87	—	—	67	1472.88
9 Grok 4.5 xAISupported	xAI	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	500K	$2.00 / $6.00	64	8.99s	75.54	62	58	52	—	71	—	—	—	1470.29
10 Gemini 3.6 Flash GoogleSupported	Google	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$1.50 / $7.50	208	14.24s	75.5	39	65	—	—	71	—	—	—	1483.14
11 GPT-5.4 OpenAISupported	OpenAI	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1.05M	$2.50 / $15.00	126	133.67s	73.41	57	59	70	64	75	—	—	66	1465.74
12 GPT-5.5 OpenAIEstimated	OpenAI	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $30.00	91	61.39s	72.95	65	72	79	65	78	—	—	71	1481.89
13 GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAIEstimated	OpenAI	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1.05M	$2.50 / $15.00	Not measured	Not measured	72.8	59	69	78	72	84	—	—	97	—
14 Qwen3.8-27B AlibabaSupported Self-host	Alibaba	Open	Current	Reasoning	262K	$0.00 / $0.00	53	40.79s	72.63	70	65	—	77	45	—	88	—	1439.67
15 Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) AnthropicEstimated	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	Not measured	Not measured	72.41	64	65	71	46	82	—	—	—	1502.21
16 Claude Opus 4.7 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Standard	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	53	16.06s	72.16	59	69	—	—	66	—	—	62	1493.99
17 Qwen3.7 Max AlibabaSupported	Alibaba	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	Not listed	207	13.90s	71.63	39	55	78	—	70	100	91	82	1473.65
18 Muse Spark MetaSupported	Meta	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	262K	Not listed	Not measured	Not measured	70.87	65	63	44	71	72	—	—	56	1488.33
19 MiMo-V2.5-Pro XiaomiSupported	Xiaomi	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M	Not listed	Not measured	Not measured	69.26	43	55	—	—	68	—	—	—	1467.69
20 MiniMax M3 MiniMaxSupported Self-host	MiniMax	Open	Current	Standard	1M	$0.30 / $1.20	103	20.75s	68.62	40	48	—	43	66	—	—	—	1442.65
21 dots3-note Preview Dots StudioEstimated Self-host	Dots Studio	Open	Current	Reasoning	512K	$0.00 / $0.00	Not measured	Not measured	68.61	61	61	76	64	76	—	92	—	—
22 Ornith-1.5-397B Ornith AIEstimated Self-host	Ornith AI	Open	Current	Reasoning	262K	$0.00 / $0.00	Not measured	Not measured	68.46	62	62	—	—	66	—	—	—	—
23 Claude Opus 4.6 AnthropicSupported	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Standard	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	42	1.95s	68.12	58	62	—	55	82	—	—	60	1497.25
24 Hy3 TencentSupported Self-host	Tencent	Open	Current	Reasoning	256K	$0.00 / $0.00	78	28.55s	68.08	43	64	—	—	—	—	—	—	1456.71
25 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next AlibabaEstimated Self-host	Alibaba	Open	Current	Reasoning	262K	$0.00 / $0.00	Not measured	Not measured	67.54	63	61	—	78	51	—	91	—	—

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The BenchLM LLM leaderboard 2026 ranks 226+ models and tracks 403+ large language models side by side across 406 benchmarks — from SWE-bench and LiveCodeBench for coding to GPQA Diamond and MMLU-Pro for knowledge and reasoning. Whether you need the best AI models 2026 has to offer for agentic workflows, math, multilingual tasks, or instruction following, our AI benchmark comparison tables make it easy to see how GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and dozens of other frontier and open-source models stack up on both benchmarks and operator tradeoffs like price and context. Supported and Estimated labels separate evidence strength from score, so incomplete reporting does not automatically remove a model from the comparison.

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What changed in August 2026

Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic) holds the #1 spot on the BenchAlign leaderboard at 83.26.
26 model releases tracked in August 2026.
Meta climbed 3 spots in the provider race.
105 Supported and 121 Estimated models appear in the public leaderboard.

Data verified August 26, 2026

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Six-month release record

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Track which release led its month, how provider depth changed, and whether the crown moved.

Months: 6
Releases: 174
Lead changes: 5

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Best ranked model released in Aug 2026

Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba

Score79.18

RankProviderTop-three avg.Models

01Anthropic83.120

02OpenAI76.138

03Alibaba74.523

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AgenticTools, browsers, and long-running work84 CodingRepository tasks and code generation57 MultimodalDocuments, images, and grounded work65 ReasoningLong-context and abstract reasoning27 KnowledgeProfessional and scientific knowledge46 Instruction followingConstraint and format reliability4 MultilingualCross-language accuracy and coverage13 MathContest and frontier mathematics32

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Scoring methodology8 weighted categories, 27 ranking benchmarks, and 301 display-only records.Inspect method

Each model's overall score is a normalized weighted average of category averages. Within each category, benchmark results are normalized to a common scale and combined using weights that favor harder, less-saturated evaluations.

Confidence remains separate from score. It shows how much public benchmark evidence supports a result, while display-only benchmarks stay visible for context without receiving ranking weight.

Data comes from OpenBench, official model papers, and public leaderboards. External consensus signals are bounded calibration inputs and are not exposed in exported data.

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Category weights: 100%
Scored categories: 8
Ranking benchmarks: 27
Display-only: 301

Category and weightBenchmarks that affect the scoreCoverage

Agentic22%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · BrowseComp · OSWorld-Verified
3 weighted · 81 context-only
Coding20%
SWE-bench Verified · SWE-Rebench · LiveCodeBench · SWE-bench Pro · SciCode
5 weighted · 52 context-only
Reasoning17%
LongBench v2 · MRCRv2 · ARC-AGI-2
3 weighted · 24 context-only
Multimodal12%
MMMU-Pro · OfficeQA Pro · CharXiv
3 weighted · 62 context-only
Knowledge12%
GPQA · SuperGPQA · MMLU-Pro · HLE · SimpleQA
5 weighted · 41 context-only
Multilingual7%
MMLU-ProX
1 weighted · 12 context-only
Instruction Following5%
IFEval · IFBench
2 weighted · 2 context-only
Math5%
AIME26 · HMMT Feb 2026 · FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) · FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) · USAMO 2026
5 weighted · 27 context-only

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