Who ranks #1 on the SAGE leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic ranks #1 on SAGE at 56.1%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 is #1 for SAGE at 56.1%. Ranked by the SAGE score 55 models in this index have a published SAGE score. SAGE leaderboard with live API prices. SAGE — Vals.ai safety and generalized evaluation suite.
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic is #1 for SAGE at 56.1%. Ranked by the SAGE score This board also tracks SAGE. Next on the same board: Gemma 4 31B and Claude Opus 4.8. This sage leaderboard ranks models by SAGE. 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 | SAGE | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 56.1% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | Gemma 4 31B | 55.0% | $0.14 | $0.40 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 54.8% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 4 | Kimi K3 | 54.3% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 52.6% | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 6 | Claude Fable 5 | 51.9% | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 7 | Gemini 3 Flash | 51.9% | $0.50 | $3.00 |
| 8 | GPT-5.5 | 51.5% | $5.00 | $30.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic ranks #1 on SAGE at 56.1%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current SAGE ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 4.7 at 56.1%; 2. Gemma 4 31B at 55.0%; 3. Claude Opus 4.8 at 54.8%.
GPT-5 nano is the cheapest scored model on this sage leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.40/M output ($0.45 blended). Claude Opus 4.7 still leads SAGE at 56.1%.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 4.7 leads SAGE, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh SAGE 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.
SAGE — Vals.ai safety and generalized evaluation suite. This page ranks models that have published a SAGE score, with live API token prices on the same row.
This page is the SAGE leaderboard. Models are sorted by SAGE, 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 SAGE score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.