Frontier timeline · Companies
Who holds the frontier?
See which companies offer the smartest models at each budget.
Replayed using 2026-09-01 scores and prices, not historical measurements.
Company frontier share
Share of the budget range where each company leads.
Every bar totals 100%. Colors show each company’s share of the frontier.
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On this date
Latest shares
| Rank | Company | Share | Models | Rank change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 37.81% | 1 | — |
| 2 | Z AI | 27.70% | 1 | New |
| 3 | Anthropic | 23.56% | 1 | ↓ 1 |
| 4 | SpaceXAI | 10.93% | 1 | — |
Budget: $10.21–$10000 per benchmark run.
Overall leaderboard
Average share across this range
2025-09-01–2026-09-01
| Rank | Company | Average share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 52.54% |
| 2 | Anthropic | 11.45% |
| 3 | DeepSeek | 7.94% |
| 4 | Meta | 6.94% |
| 5 | 5.97% | |
| 6 | Z AI | 3.92% |
| 7 | Xiaomi | 3.20% |
| 8 | MiniMax | 3.04% |
| 9 | Kimi | 1.87% |
| 10 | Alibaba | 1.45% |
| 11 | Mistral | 0.86% |
| 12 | SpaceXAI | 0.81% |
| 13 | Tencent | 0.01% |
Winning budget intervals
How frontier share works
A company leads wherever it offers the smartest model you can afford. Its share is the slice of the budget range it covers—not market share.
- Daily shares total 100%. Budgets start at that day’s cheapest model and end at a shared upper limit. The scale is logarithmic: each tenfold budget increase has equal width. Costs are per benchmark run, not per token.
- Longer ranges use averages. Bars show days, weeks, or months. The leaderboard averages daily shares across the selected range. Absent companies count as zero; days with no frontier are excluded.
- Ties split the share. Identical scores and costs split equally between companies. Duplicate models and effort variants add no extra share. For equal scores, cheaper wins.
- Dates follow model releases. Only dated models with scores and costs are included. Open weights uses its own frontier. New snapshots can change the replay and upper budget limit.
- Table details. Models combine effort variants. Rank change compares the previous frontier change; “New” means a company entered or returned. Periods are clipped to the selected range and percentages are rounded.