Frontier timeline · Companies
Who holds the frontier?
See which companies offer the smartest models at each budget.
Replayed using 2026-09-07 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 | 27.22% | 2 | ↑ 4 |
| 2 | Xiaomi | 19.54% | 2 | — |
| 3 | Z AI | 18.12% | 1 | — |
| 4 | Anthropic | 15.98% | 1 | ↓ 3 |
| 5 | IBM | 9.06% | 1 | ↑ 1 |
| 6 | Meta | 8.93% | 2 | ↓ 2 |
| 7 | DeepSeek | 0.71% | 1 | — |
| 8 | Tencent | 0.43% | 1 | — |
Budget: $13.63–$20000 per benchmark run.
Overall leaderboard
Average share across this range
2025-09-07–2026-09-07
| Rank | Company | Average share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 36.07% |
| 2 | Anthropic | 29.19% |
| 3 | 12.29% | |
| 4 | Xiaomi | 9.61% |
| 5 | DeepSeek | 5.96% |
| 6 | Z AI | 2.01% |
| 7 | Mistral | 1.86% |
| 8 | MiniMax | 1.71% |
| 9 | SpaceXAI | 0.53% |
| 10 | IBM | 0.35% |
| 11 | Meta | 0.34% |
| 12 | Tencent | 0.08% |
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.