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A $100 Budget Buys 40 Intelligence Index Tasks with Opus 5.5 at Medium Effort
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- Artificial Analysis
- What
- compared the number of Intelligence Index tasks a $100 budget buys across Opus 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, and GPT-6 Luna
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A $100 budget buys 40 Intelligence Index tasks (a mix of task archetypes) with Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort, or 10 tasks at max effort.
What happened
A $100 budget buys 40 Intelligence Index tasks (a mix of task archetypes) with Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort, or 10 tasks at max effort. The same $100 is 166 tasks with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) or 2,500 with GPT-6 Luna (medium).
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Artificial Analysis compared how many Intelligence Index tasks a $100 budget buys across three models. The budget covers 40 tasks with Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort, or 10 at maximum effort; it covers 166 tasks with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at maximum effort and 2,500 with GPT-6 Luna at medium effort.
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