Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier
Village's LLM Atlas maps the strongest AI model at each price point.
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Village's LLM Atlas maps the strongest AI model at each price point. Per the source, open-weight models were the best buy at 3% of budgets as of the latest measurement, down from 41% in June, with closed releases from OpenAI and Anthropic covering most budgets. The source says open models historically won on value in bursts after strong cheap releases, typically from DeepSeek, before closed labs undercut them. Costs are relative to GPT-5 at high effort, and scores are dated October 31, 2026.
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Open-weight models were the best buy at only 3% of budgets, the lowest share the source has measured.
Source: village.dev ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 1 · AINewsIQ paraphraseThe open share was 41% in June; OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna (September) and GPT-6.1 Terra (October) took most of that back.
Source: village.dev ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 2 · AINewsIQ paraphraseThe source says open-model value leads came in bursts, with each peak roughly halving or more by the next quarter.
Source: village.dev ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 3 · AINewsIQ paraphraseWidening the budget range to 0.3% to ten times GPT-5's cost raises the open share to 16%, per the source.
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