https://llmpodium.com LLM rankings, benchmark updates and new model additions on LLMPodium — the definitive LLM leaderboard. en Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:43:40 GMT https://llmpodium.com/blog/state-of-llms-2026 https://llmpodium.com/blog/state-of-llms-2026#2026-08-05 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Our annual data snapshot: who leads the Podium Score, how wide the open-weights gap is, where prices landed, and which benchmarks decided the year. https://llmpodium.com/blog/best-llm-for-coding-2026 https://llmpodium.com/blog/best-llm-for-coding-2026#2026-08-03 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Which AI models write the best code in 2026? We compare Claude Fable 5, Claude Mythos Preview, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 across SWE-Bench Verified, LiveCodeBench and Terminal-Bench. https://llmpodium.com/blog/open-weight-vs-proprietary-2026 https://llmpodium.com/blog/open-weight-vs-proprietary-2026#2026-08-02 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Kimi K3 scores 83.3 on the Podium Score — closer to frontier proprietary models than ever. We quantify the 2026 open-weights gap using aggregated leaderboard data. https://llmpodium.com/blog/llm-pricing-compared-2026 https://llmpodium.com/blog/llm-pricing-compared-2026#2026-08-01 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article A 178× spread: the cheapest and most expensive frontier LLMs in 2026, price-per-intelligence analysis, and where the value sweet spot is. https://llmpodium.com/blog/fastest-llms-2026 https://llmpodium.com/blog/fastest-llms-2026#2026-07-30 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads at 389 tokens/second. Full speed ranking of frontier models, and why speed is the most underrated benchmark. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-28 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT model Added Alibaba Qwen 3 235B MoE model with hybrid thinking mode to all leaderboards. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-25 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT benchmark Updated LiveCodeBench scores for all models with latest contamination-free results. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-20 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT model Added Meta Llama 4 Maverick 400B MoE model with 1M context window support. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-15 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT update Added full benchmark suite for Claude Opus 4 including SWE-Bench and AIME scores. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-10 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT feature LLMPodium now available in 10 languages: EN, ZH, JA, KO, TH, RU, DE, ES, IT, FR. https://llmpodium.com/blog/arena-explained https://llmpodium.com/blog/arena-explained#2026-07-10 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Understanding the concept of LLM arenas — live, crowd-sourced evaluations that reveal which models people actually prefer. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-05 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT model Added Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash with thinking capabilities. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-07-01 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT update Updated pricing data for all models from official API documentation. https://llmpodium.com/blog/benchmarking-best-practices https://llmpodium.com/blog/benchmarking-best-practices#2026-07-01 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article How to avoid data contamination, account for prompt sensitivity, and build reliable evaluations. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-06-28 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT benchmark Updated SWE-Bench Verified scores for frontier models. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-06-20 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT model Added DeepSeek R1 reasoning model with chain-of-thought capabilities. https://llmpodium.com/changelog https://llmpodium.com/changelog#2026-06-15 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT feature New Arena page for side-by-side model comparison launched. https://llmpodium.com/blog/llm-evaluation-methodology https://llmpodium.com/blog/llm-evaluation-methodology#2026-06-15 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Article Deep dive into how LLMPodium normalizes and weights scores across multiple public leaderboards.