Who ranks #1 on the Pope leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct by Microsoft ranks #1 on Pope at 85.6%. API pricing is $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is #1 for Pope at 85.6%. Ranked by the Pope score 1 models in this index have a published Pope score. Pope leaderboard: rank models by Pope next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct by Microsoft is #1 for Pope at 85.6%. Ranked by the Pope score This board also tracks Pope. This pope leaderboard ranks models by Pope. 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 | Pope | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct | 85.6% | $0.05 | $0.10 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct by Microsoft ranks #1 on Pope at 85.6%. API pricing is $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output.
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct currently leads Pope and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.15 blended).
Not automatically. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct leads Pope, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Pope 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.
Pope is a public LLM eval (the Pope score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Pope leaderboard. Models are sorted by Pope, 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 Pope score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.