2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25 · Published 2026-10-26
This week in AI · 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25
1 new model, 33 price changes (15 of them price drops) and benchmark results for 21 models added to BenchGecko. MiniMax mindshare rose 799 bps.
New models
- LFM2.5-2.6B · liquid · input 0.35 per M tokens · output 0.5 per M tokens · context 128000 tokens · 2026-10-25
Price changes
33 price changes were recorded this week, including 15 price drops. The largest input price increases:
- GLM 5.3 Flash · 0.0162 to 0.15 · +826% · 2026-10-25
- Qwen3.8 27B · 0.04 to 0.2 · +400% · 2026-10-25
- DeepSeek V4 Pro · 0.2088 to 0.95526 · +358% · 2026-10-19
- Nemotron 3 Super · 0.08 to 0.3 · +275% · 2026-10-21
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · 0.15 to 0.44 · +193% · 2026-10-20
- Qwen3.5-9B · 0.08 to 0.17 · +113% · 2026-10-25
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · 0.15 to 0.3 · +100% · 2026-10-19
- Mistral Large 4 · 0.68 to 1.36 · +100% · 2026-10-21
Provider price spreads
Input price per M tokens, cheapest vs priciest provider:
- GLM 5.3 · 37 providers · Wafer 0.0699 vs Alibaba 2.8 · spread 3906%
- GLM 5.3 Flash · 34 providers · Relace 0.0413 vs Fireworks 0.225 · spread 445%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · 33 providers · OpenInference 0.02 vs BaseTen 0.6 · spread 2900%
Benchmark results added to BenchGecko
Results for 21 models were added to BenchGecko this week. A selection:
- Gemini 4 Argon · WeirdML v3 46 · Lmca 74.9 · Dtbench 96 · ARC-AGI 98.5
- Muse Spark Open · FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 73.5 · SimpleQA Verified 56.6 · FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private 31.7 · GPQA diamond 88.3
- Mistral Large 4 · Lmca 42.1 · FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 61.7 · FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private 26.8 · Chess Puzzles 29.5
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · WeirdML v3 26.8 · ARC-AGI 89 · Lmca 60.1 · Dtbench 91.7
- GPT-6.1 Sol · WeirdML v3 56.2 · Dtbench 94.2 · Lmca 73.9
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Lmca 80.3 · Dtbench 95.6 · WeirdML v3 41.1
Mindshare
Share by model family, with the weekly change in basis points where it rose:
- Qwen · 23.7% · rose, +74 bps
- GLM · 13.9% · fell
- DeepSeek V4 · 9.5% · rose, +113 bps
- MiniMax · 9.1% · rose, +799 bps
- GPT-6 · 8.7% · rose, +72 bps
- Claude Opus · 5% · fell
- GPT-5 · 4.8% · rose, +211 bps
- Gemma · 4.6% · fell
Indices
As of 2026-10-26:
- Gecko Pulse · 31 · 7d change: -5
- Bubble Index · 271 · 7d change: -6
- Mindshare Pulse · 37 · 7d change: +8
Written automatically from BenchGecko's tracked data for this period; every number comes from the changelog, model, mindshare and pricing datasets. Checked against the source data before publishing.