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NEWS: I'd watch the cheap tier, not the headline. A bigger model beats turning effort all the way up, until the bottom, where every step up costs more.
With the current Claude lineup, moving up a model tier beats maxing out effort to achieve the highest intelligence per dollar
At nearly every Cost per Task, we see the largest model sits on the performance vs. cost Pareto frontier for @AnthropicAI models:
➤ Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh, 57) outscores Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max, 55) with 40% lower Cost per Task and about half the Time per Task
➤ Claude Fable 5.2 (high) beats Opus 5.5 (max), with smaller cost and time savings, and Fable 5.2 (low) beats Opus 5.5 (high)
➤ This pattern doesn’t hold at the cheapest tier, where every step up from Claude Haiku 5.5 (max) costs more
Google has released its first decision model, Gemini Decision 1, scoring 66 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and leading in knowledge and reasoning benchmarks
Gemini Decision 1 from @GoogleDeepMind scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index v2.1, in line with Elephant 9B (@baselabs) and Jev 1.14 (@typesafeai), and 7 points behind leaders Drex Max v1.1 (@NaceAI) and GLiDE v1.2 (@fastinoAI), which both score 73. It is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and costs $345 per 1M Tasks across the Index, around three times higher than Drex Max v1.1 ($103) due to its higher pricing
Key results for Gemini Decision 1:
➤ Not yet frontier on Decision Index: Gemini Decision 1 scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index. It leads knowledge and reasoning benchmarks, scoring 66 on AA-Omniscience-Decision and 49 on HLE-MultiChoice. It trails on other evaluations, including our new proprietary classification and extraction benchmark AA-Paperclip, where it answers all 15 questions correctly on 33% of documents vs. 63% for Drex Max v1.1
➤ More than 3x the Cost per Task of leading models: Gemini Decision 1 costs $345 per 1M Tasks, compared with $103 for Drex Max v1.1, $156 for Jev 1.14. This difference is driven by its token price of $0.10 per 1M input tokens vs. $0.03 for Drex Max v1.1. Gemini Decision 1 has a similar Cost per 1M Tasks to GPT-6 Luna (Decisions, $339)
➤ Strong calibration for reasoning tasks: We measure calibration with the Brier score, the average squared gap between the probability a model assigns to its chosen answer and whether that answer was correct (lower is better). Gemini Decision 1 has a Brier score of 0.18 across the Index, between Drex Max v1.1 (0.16) and Jev 1.14 (0.19). Calibration varies by task. with its Brier score of 0.20 on HLE-MultiChoice among the lowest of all models in the Index, while its 0.14 on When2Call compares with 0.04 for Drex Max v1.1
NEWS: The launch post calls Decision 1 frontier. Artificial Analysis says it isn't frontier yet on their index, and that it costs more per task than Drex Max v1.1.
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