SVG Benchmark Narrows Frontier Model Gap

This is mostly a cost-per-result story, not a pure quality story. If the quality gap is genuinely that small, the model choice shifts from "best output" to "best economics."

• –The closed frontier models appear to cluster tightly on visual quality, so the practical differentiator becomes spend per task and token efficiency
• –DeepSeek and GLM are the notable open-model standouts here, which reinforces the idea that open weights are catching up fastest on narrow generation tasks
• –The reported pricing spread is dramatic enough to matter in production, especially for workflows that generate lots of SVGs or iterative variants
• –Treat this as a single-user benchmark, not a universal truth; SVG prompts, rendering settings, and sampling can swing results a lot
• –For teams, the real takeaway is to benchmark on your own SVG workload before paying a premium for a frontier model