281 models · 296 benchmarks

LLM Leaderboard & AI Model Benchmarks — July 2026

Compare frontier AI models by quality, cost, and context. 79 ranked and 35 verified models among 281 tracked LLMs — 296 benchmarks, real pricing, and runtime data in one place.

The top-ranked model on the BenchLM leaderboard is Claude Fable 5 with an overall score of 91.

Last verified: July 9, 2026

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79 ranked · 35 verified

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$0.30 avg output/M

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Best Overall

Claude Fable 5

overall score

Anthropic

Best Open Weight

GLM-5.2

overall score

Z.AI

Cheapest

Qwen3.6-27B

$0.00

avg / 1M tokens

Alibaba

Fastest

Mercury 2

789

tokens / sec

Inception

Lowest Latency

Command A+

0.25s

to first answer

Cohere

Largest Context

Llama 4 Scout

10M

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The LLM leaderboard — July 2026 rankings

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1 Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M+	$10.00 / $50.00	N/A	N/A	91	99	94	—	80	89	100	88	85	1508.51
2 Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M+	$10.00 / $50.00	N/A	N/A	89	100	91	—	93	88	100	86	82	—
3 Gemini 3.1 Pro Google	Google	Closed	Current	Standard	1M	$2.00 / $12.00	109	29.71s	88	77	89	96	83	91	100	88	62	1485.8
4 Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think Google	Google	Closed	Current	Reasoning	2M	N/A	N/A	N/A	~87	92	73	89	95	84	78	79	—	1486.39
5 Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	N/A	N/A	85	94	90	—	66	88	—	—	74	1476.51
6 GPT-5.4 OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1.05M	$2.50 / $15.00	74	151.79s	85	88	86	88	60	97	100	93	71	1467.22
7 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Standard	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	40	1.78s	83	79	82	88	75	92	100	91	54	1498.93
8 Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba	Alibaba	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M	N/A	N/A	N/A	83	76	88	79	—	79	84	90	83	1474.85
9 GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Current	Reasoning	400K	$1.75 / $14.00	79	88.26s	~82	78	84	88	91	89	95	88	—	1416
10 GLM-5.2 Z.AI Self-host	Z.AI	Open	Current	Reasoning	1M	$1.40 / $4.40	N/A	N/A	81	85	79	—	—	85	—	—	81	—
11 Gemini 3.5 Flash Google	Google	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M	$1.50 / $9.00	284.2	18.55s	80	87	75	73	76	72	—	76	62	1479.46
12 Gemini 3 Pro Google	Google	Closed	Established	Standard	2M	$2.00 / $12.00	109	32.65s	80	82	68	82	80	77	78	80	60	1485.77
13 GPT-5.5 OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $30.00	N/A	N/A	78	96	73	82	58	82	—	—	70	1474.62
14 DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) DeepSeek Self-host	DeepSeek	Open	Current	Reasoning	1M	$1.74 / $3.48	N/A	N/A	78	78	83	—	—	72	—	—	82	—
15 Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba	Alibaba	Closed	Current	Reasoning	1M	N/A	N/A	N/A	78	69	81	78	73	73	80	89	79	1462.53
16 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Standard	200K	$3.00 / $15.00	44	1.48s	77	70	76	81	84	84	90	80	49	1472.16
17 GLM-5 (Reasoning) Z.AI Self-host	Z.AI	Open	Current	Reasoning	200K	$1.00 / $3.20	N/A	N/A	~77	88	69	82	71	78	78	76	33	1455.62
18 Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) Anthropic	Anthropic	Closed	Superseded	Reasoning	1M	$5.00 / $25.00	N/A	N/A	76	83	83	76	50	85	—	—	—	1501.97
19 GPT-5.2 OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Established	Reasoning	400K	$1.75 / $14.00	73	130.34s	75	53	74	83	81	88	95	79	57	1434.98
20 Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI Self-host	Moonshot AI	Open	Superseded	Reasoning	256K	$0.95 / $4.00	N/A	N/A	74	80	88	—	68	63	—	—	72	1461.37
21 DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) DeepSeek Self-host	DeepSeek	Open	Current	Reasoning	1M	$1.74 / $3.48	N/A	N/A	74	69	85	—	—	68	—	—	81	—
22 GPT-5.1 OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Established	Reasoning	200K	$1.25 / $10.00	111	57.47s	~73	72	68	66	92	77	84	73	48	1438.78
23 Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) Moonshot AI Self-host	Moonshot AI	Closed	Current	Reasoning	128K	$0.60 / $3.00	N/A	N/A	73	58	89	65	67	72	81	89	—	1447
24 DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) DeepSeek Self-host	DeepSeek	Open	Current	Reasoning	1M	$0.14 / $0.28	N/A	N/A	72	66	80	—	—	65	—	—	81	—
25 GPT-5.2-Codex OpenAI	OpenAI	Closed	Established	Reasoning	400K	$1.75 / $14.00	123	87.34s	~72	74	74	82	86	73	84	84	—	1331

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The BenchLM LLM leaderboard 2026 provisionally ranks 79+ models and tracks 281+ large language models side by side across 296 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. The main leaderboard now distinguishes provisional ranking from verified ranking so you can see which scores rest on exact-source coverage and which still rely on source-unverified public rows.

What changed in July 2026

Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) holds the #1 spot on the leaderboard at 91.
11 model releases tracked in July 2026.
35 models now carry fully verified rankings.

Data verified July 9, 2026

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

Each score includes a confidence indicator (1-4 dots) showing how much sourced benchmark data supports it — models with no non-generated benchmark coverage are marked as estimated.

Display-only benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, BBH, LisanBench, FLTEval, and the AIME/HMMT exams remain visible but are excluded from scoring.

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

Agentic22%

Terminal-Bench 2.0 · OSWorld-Verified · BrowseComp · GAIA · Tau-Bench · WebArena

Coding20%

SWE-Rebench · SWE-bench Pro · LiveCodeBench · SWE-bench Verified · SciCode

Reasoning17%

LongBench v2 · ARC-AGI-2 · MRCRv2 · MuSR

Multimodal12%

MMMU-Pro · OfficeQA Pro

Knowledge12%

HLE · MMLU-Pro · FrontierScience · SimpleQA · GPQA · SuperGPQA

Multilingual7%

MMLU-ProX · MGSM

Instruction Following5%

IFEval · IFBench

Math5%

FrontierMath · AIME 2025 · BRUMO 2025 · MATH-500