Frontier timeline · Companies
Who holds the frontier?
See which companies offer the smartest models at each budget.
Replayed using 2026-09-22 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 | 48.76% | 2 | — |
| 2 | Xiaomi | 31.52% | 1 | New |
| 3 | Anthropic | 10.99% | 1 | — |
| 4 | IBM | 6.01% | 1 | ↑ 1 |
| 5 | Meta | 2.73% | 1 | ↑ 1 |
Budget: $14.90–$20000 per benchmark run.
Overall leaderboard
Average share across this range
2025-09-22–2026-09-22
| Rank | Company | Average share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 44.23% |
| 2 | Anthropic | 30.38% |
| 3 | DeepSeek | 10.18% |
| 4 | 4.86% | |
| 5 | Xiaomi | 2.52% |
| 6 | MiniMax | 2.46% |
| 7 | Z AI | 2.05% |
| 8 | Mistral | 1.95% |
| 9 | IBM | 0.48% |
| 10 | Alibaba | 0.41% |
| 11 | Meta | 0.24% |
| 12 | SpaceXAI | 0.20% |
| 13 | StepFun | 0.06% |
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.