Who ranks #1 on the Mega Xstorycloze leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct by Microsoft ranks #1 on Mega Xstorycloze at 73.5%. API pricing is $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is #1 for Mega Xstorycloze at 73.5%. Ranked by the Mega Xstorycloze score 1 models in this index have a published Mega Xstorycloze score. Mega Xstorycloze leaderboard: rank models by Mega Xstorycloze next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct by Microsoft is #1 for Mega Xstorycloze at 73.5%. Ranked by the Mega Xstorycloze score This board also tracks Mega Xstorycloze. This mega xstorycloze leaderboard ranks models by Mega Xstorycloze. 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 | Mega Xstorycloze | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phi-3.5-mini-instruct | 73.5% | $0.10 | $0.10 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct by Microsoft ranks #1 on Mega Xstorycloze at 73.5%. API pricing is $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output.
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct currently leads Mega Xstorycloze and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.20 blended).
Not automatically. Phi-3.5-mini-instruct leads Mega Xstorycloze, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Mega Xstorycloze 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.
Mega Xstorycloze is a public LLM eval (the Mega Xstorycloze score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Mega Xstorycloze leaderboard. Models are sorted by Mega Xstorycloze, 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 Mega Xstorycloze score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.