Who ranks #1 on the Mls Bench Lite leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Mls Bench Lite at 48.3%. API pricing is $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 is #1 for Mls Bench Lite at 48.3%. Ranked by the Mls Bench Lite score 3 models in this index have a published Mls Bench Lite score. Mls Bench Lite leaderboard: rank models by Mls Bench Lite next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is #1 for Mls Bench Lite at 48.3%. Ranked by the Mls Bench Lite score This board also tracks Mls Bench Lite. Next on the same board: Qwen3.8 Max and Kimi K2.7 Code. This mls bench lite leaderboard ranks models by Mls 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 | Mls Bench Lite | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K3 | 48.3% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 2 | Qwen3.8 Max | 41% | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 3 | Kimi K2.7 Code | 35.1% | $0.96 | $3.97 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Mls Bench Lite at 48.3%. API pricing is $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
The current Mls Bench Lite ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Kimi K3 at 48.3%; 2. Qwen3.8 Max at 41%; 3. Kimi K2.7 Code at 35.1%.
Kimi K2.7 Code is the cheapest scored model on this mls bench lite leaderboard at $0.96/M input and $3.97/M output ($4.93 blended). Kimi K3 still leads Mls Bench Lite at 48.3%.
Not automatically. Kimi K3 leads Mls Bench Lite, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Mls 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.
Mls Bench Lite is a public LLM eval (the Mls Bench Lite score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Mls Bench Lite leaderboard. Models are sorted by Mls 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 Mls Bench Lite score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.