Who ranks #1 on the Mle Bench Lite leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 by MiniMax ranks #1 on Mle Bench Lite at 66.6%. API pricing is $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 is #1 for Mle Bench Lite at 66.6%. Ranked by the Mle Bench Lite score 1 models in this index have a published Mle Bench Lite score. Mle Bench Lite leaderboard: rank models by Mle Bench Lite next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 by MiniMax is #1 for Mle Bench Lite at 66.6%. Ranked by the Mle Bench Lite score This board also tracks Mle Bench Lite. This mle bench lite leaderboard ranks models by Mle Bench Lite. 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 | Mle Bench Lite | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MiniMax M2.7 | 66.6% | $0.30 | $1.20 |
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As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 by MiniMax ranks #1 on Mle Bench Lite at 66.6%. API pricing is $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output.
MiniMax M2.7 currently leads Mle Bench Lite and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output ($1.50 blended).
Not automatically. MiniMax M2.7 leads Mle Bench Lite, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Mle Bench Lite 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.
Mle Bench Lite is a public LLM eval (the Mle Bench Lite score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Mle Bench Lite leaderboard. Models are sorted by Mle Bench Lite, 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 Mle Bench Lite score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.