Closed AI models dominate price-performance frontier
Original title: Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier
Village LLM Atlas shows closed models like GPT-6 and Claude Haiku 5.5 leading value across nearly all budgets.
Village's LLM Atlas maps the price-performance frontier using benchmark and cost data. Closed models now hold almost every budget point, with open models winning only at the cheapest end. This shift follows closed labs releasing cheaper tiers and model families faster than open labs can respond.
- Closed models hold nearly all budgets
- Open share at lowest measured level
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp best buy at nearly half budgets in 2025
- Closed labs distill own models and release families
- Open models win in bursts then lose share
- Organizations
- Village
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Village’s LLM Atlas maps the price-performance frontier: the strongest AI model at every price point. An open-weight model is the best buy at 3% of budgets. Nearly all of those are at the cheap end, held by Google’s Gemma 4 E4B and Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.
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