Who ranks #1 on the Frontier Science leaderboard?
As of August 30, 2026, MAI-Code-1-Flash by Microsoft ranks #1 on Frontier Science at 58.2%. API pricing is $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output.
As of August 30, 2026, MAI-Code-1-Flash is #1 for Frontier Science at 58.2%. Ranked by the Frontier Science score 1 models in this index have a published Frontier Science score. Frontier Science leaderboard: rank models by Frontier Science next to live API token prices.
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As of August 30, 2026, MAI-Code-1-Flash by Microsoft is #1 for Frontier Science at 58.2%. Ranked by the Frontier Science score This board also tracks Frontier Science. This frontier science leaderboard ranks models by Frontier Science. 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 | Frontier Science | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MAI-Code-1-Flash | 58.2% | $0.15 | $0.60 |
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As of August 30, 2026, MAI-Code-1-Flash by Microsoft ranks #1 on Frontier Science at 58.2%. API pricing is $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output.
MAI-Code-1-Flash currently leads Frontier Science and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output ($0.75 blended).
Not automatically. MAI-Code-1-Flash leads Frontier Science, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Frontier Science 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 30, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
Frontier Science is a public LLM eval (the Frontier Science score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Frontier Science leaderboard. Models are sorted by Frontier Science, 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 Frontier Science score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.