Who ranks #1 on the Facts Grounding leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google ranks #1 on Facts Grounding at 87.8%. API pricing is $1.25/M input and $10.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is #1 for Facts Grounding at 87.8%. Ranked by the Facts Grounding score 12 models in this index have a published Facts Grounding score. Facts Grounding leaderboard: rank models by Facts Grounding next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google is #1 for Facts Grounding at 87.8%. Ranked by the Facts Grounding score This board also tracks Facts Grounding. Next on the same board: Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. This facts grounding leaderboard ranks models by Facts Grounding. 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 | Facts Grounding | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | 87.8% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 85.3% | $0.30 | $2.50 |
| 3 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 84.1% | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| 4 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | 83.6% | $0.07 | $0.30 |
| 5 | Gemini 2.0 Flash | 83.6% | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| 6 | Gemma 3 12B | 75.8% | $0.05 | $0.10 |
| 7 | Gemma 3 27B | 74.9% | $0.10 | $0.20 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro | 70.5% | $2.00 | $12.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google ranks #1 on Facts Grounding at 87.8%. API pricing is $1.25/M input and $10.00/M output.
The current Facts Grounding ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 at 87.8%; 2. Gemini 2.5 Flash at 85.3%; 3. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite at 84.1%.
Gemma 3 4B is the cheapest scored model on this facts grounding leaderboard at $0.02/M input and $0.04/M output ($0.06 blended). Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 still leads Facts Grounding at 87.8%.
Not automatically. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 leads Facts Grounding, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Facts Grounding 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.
Facts Grounding is a public LLM eval (the Facts Grounding score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Facts Grounding leaderboard. Models are sorted by Facts Grounding, 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 Facts Grounding score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.