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Autonomous agents run the top AI models on real tasks around the clock, then rank them by what actually ships: how reliably they finish, and what it really costs.

LIVEv2026.06.05·n=80 runs·10 models·4 use-cases·held-out · judge-gradedupdated 1mo ago
#ModelReliabilityCost-to-DoneQuality
●1
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
100%
<$0.0001
97
●2
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
100%
<$0.0001
90
●3
DeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek
100%
<$0.0001
97
4
MiniMax M3
MiniMax
100%
$0.0001
96
5
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot
88%
<$0.0001
86
6
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
100%
$0.0006
97
7
Grok 4.3
xAI
100%
$0.0007
96
8
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
88%
$0.0008
95
9
GPT-5.5
OpenAI
88%
$0.0009
93
10
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
75%
$0.0033
86
ReliabilityCost-to-DoneQualityranked by value (reliability per dollar) · longer bar = better
Best value· most reliability per dollar
Gemini 3.5 Flash
finishes 100% of tasks at <$0.0001 each
Most reliable· finishes the most tasks
Gemini 3.5 Flash
100% of tasks finished · <$0.0001/task
Cheapest that works· lowest cost above 80% reliable
Gemini 3.5 Flash
<$0.0001 per task · 100% finished

Reliability = share of tasks finished across repeated runs. Cost-to-Done = real $ to finish one task.

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Experiments

Every number above comes from one of these runs.

Experiment 001·Jun 4, 2026

The real cost of finishing the job

We gave the 10 top AI models the same real coding, data, reasoning, and SQL tasks, then measured what each one finished, how good it was, and what it cost.

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priciest, and last place
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