An open-source interactive dashboard plots LLM intelligence benchmarks against API pricing to map the daily price-to-performance value frontier.

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An open-source interactive dashboard plots LLM intelligence benchmarks against API pricing to map the daily price-to-performance value frontier.

Best Value LLM is a lightweight, open-source dashboard that plots models evaluated on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against their blended API token pricing to highlight the Pareto value frontier. Powered by daily automated GitHub Actions cron jobs that pull from the Artificial Analysis API and deploy static updates to Cloudflare Workers, the tool identifies models where no cheaper alternative delivers higher benchmark performance. Users can filter by provider, minimum score, and specialized benchmarks like coding or math, as well as view a budget lookup table that pinpoints the highest-scoring model and runner-up for any target price tier.

// ANALYSIS

Raw LLM benchmark leaderboards often mislead developers by ignoring unit economics; charting an automated Pareto frontier cuts through provider hype by instantly flagging overpriced models that are strictly dominated by cheaper peers.

–Automating daily data refreshes and change tracking captures fast-moving price cuts and capability adjustments without manual curation.
–Filtering by domain (such as coding or math) and collapsing reasoning effort variants helps developers optimize for workload-specific constraints.
–Focusing strictly on blended 3:1 token pricing abstracts away real-world cost levers like prompt caching, batch execution, and speed/latency trade-offs.

// TAGS

llmbenchmarkai-pricingartificial-analysisopen-sourcedata-visualizationpareto-frontier

DISCOVERED

2h ago

2026-09-24

PUBLISHED

5h ago

2026-09-24

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

terryds

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An open-source interactive dashboard plots LLM intelligence benchmarks against API pricing to map the daily price-to-performance value frontier.