Village research: closed-source models occupy nearly the entire price-performance frontier
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Village, based on LLM Atlas, tallied the strongest model at each price point and found that closed-source models occupy almost all budget ranges, with open-weight models being the best choice at only 3% of budget points. Village says that in June open-weight models were the best choice at 41% of budget points, and that this proportion has now fallen to 3%.
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- Hacker News AIClosed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier
Village's LLM Atlas finds closed models hold almost every budget on the price-performance frontier, with open-weight models the best buy at only 3% of budgets, the lowest share measured, down from 41% in June. DeepSeek V4 Flash and Zhipu's GLM-5.2 once led large budget bands, but OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Terra and Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 reclaimed them. The piece attributes the shift to closed labs distilling their own frontier models, releasing full model families, and serving inference at greater scale.
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