Who ranks #1 on the DROP leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 by DeepSeek ranks #1 on DROP at 91.6%. API pricing is $0.27/M input and $1.10/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 is #1 for DROP at 91.6%. Ranked by the DROP score 24 models in this index have a published DROP score. DROP leaderboard: rank models by DROP next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 by DeepSeek is #1 for DROP at 91.6%. Ranked by the DROP score This board also tracks DROP. Next on the same board: Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. This drop leaderboard ranks models by DROP. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
| Rank | Model | DROP | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek-V3 | 91.6% | $0.27 | $1.10 |
| 2 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 87.1% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 3 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 87.1% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 4 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | 86.3% | $0.43 | $0.87 |
| 5 | GPT-4 Turbo | 86% | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| 6 | Nova Pro | 85.4% | $0.80 | $3.20 |
| 7 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct | 84.8% | $0.89 | $0.89 |
| 8 | GPT-4o | 83.4% | $2.50 | $10.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 by DeepSeek ranks #1 on DROP at 91.6%. API pricing is $0.27/M input and $1.10/M output.
The current DROP ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. DeepSeek-V3 at 91.6%; 2. Claude 3.5 Sonnet at 87.1%; 3. Claude 3.5 Sonnet at 87.1%.
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is the cheapest scored model on this drop leaderboard at $0.03/M input and $0.03/M output ($0.06 blended). DeepSeek-V3 still leads DROP at 91.6%.
Not automatically. DeepSeek-V3 leads DROP, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh DROP against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 20, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
DROP is a public LLM eval (the DROP score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the DROP leaderboard. Models are sorted by DROP, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published DROP score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.