Who ranks #1 on the Frontierscience Research leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Seed 2.1 Turbo by ByteDance ranks #1 on Frontierscience Research at 33.3%. API pricing is $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Seed 2.1 Turbo is #1 for Frontierscience Research at 33.3%. Ranked by the Frontierscience Research score 2 models in this index have a published Frontierscience Research score. Frontierscience Research leaderboard: rank models by Frontierscience Research next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Seed 2.1 Turbo by ByteDance is #1 for Frontierscience Research at 33.3%. Ranked by the Frontierscience Research score This board also tracks Frontierscience Research. Next on the same board: Hy3. This frontierscience research leaderboard ranks models by Frontierscience Research. 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 | Frontierscience Research | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | 33.3% | $0.50 | $2.50 |
| 2 | Hy3 | 21.3% | $0.13 | $0.53 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Seed 2.1 Turbo by ByteDance ranks #1 on Frontierscience Research at 33.3%. API pricing is $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output.
The current Frontierscience Research ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Seed 2.1 Turbo at 33.3%; 2. Hy3 at 21.3%.
Hy3 is the cheapest scored model on this frontierscience research leaderboard at $0.13/M input and $0.53/M output ($0.66 blended). Seed 2.1 Turbo still leads Frontierscience Research at 33.3%.
Not automatically. Seed 2.1 Turbo leads Frontierscience Research, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Frontierscience Research 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.
Frontierscience Research is a public LLM eval (the Frontierscience Research score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Frontierscience Research leaderboard. Models are sorted by Frontierscience Research, 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 Frontierscience Research score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.