Tau Bench Airline

    🏆 Leaderboard

    As of August 20, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is #1 for Tau Bench Airline at 70%. Ranked by the Tau Bench Airline score 21 models in this index have a published Tau Bench Airline score. Tau Bench Airline leaderboard: rank models by Tau Bench Airline next to live API token prices.

    Updated August 20, 2026282 models33 providers
    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    70%$18.00
    MiniMax M1 80KOSS
    MiniMax · Open Source
    62%$2.75
    GLM-4.5-AirOSS
    Z AI · Open Source
    60.8%$1.30
    GLM-4.5OSS
    Z AI · Open Source
    60.4%$2.80
    Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source · via OpenRouter
    60%$2.02
    Claude Sonnet 4
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    60%$18.00
    Claude Opus 4
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    59.6%$90.00
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    58.4%$18.00
    Claude Opus 4.1
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    56%$90.00
    o1
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    50%$75.00
    GPT-4.1
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    49.4%$10.00
    o4-mini
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    49.2%$5.50
    Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    49%$1.65
    Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507OSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    46%$3.30
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    46%$18.00
    Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    44%$1.65
    GPT-4o
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    42.8%$12.50
    GPT-4.1 mini
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    36%$2.00
    o3-mini
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    32.4%$5.50
    Claude 3.5 Haiku
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    22.8%$4.80
    GPT-4.1 nano
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    14%$0.50
    ChatGPT-4o Latest
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    $12.50
    Claude 3 Haiku
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $1.50
    Claude 3 Opus
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $90.00
    Claude 3 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Fable 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Haiku 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $6.00
    Claude Mythos 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Mythos Preview
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Opus 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.6
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.7
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.8
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Sonnet 4.6
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Sonnet 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $12.00
    Command A+OSS
    Cohere · Open Source
    $12.50
    Command R+OSS
    Cohere · Open Source
    $1.25
    Composer 2
    Cursor · Proprietary
    $3.00
    Composer 2 Fast
    Cursor · Proprietary
    $9.00
    DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BOSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $0.50
    DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BOSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $0.30
    DeepSeek-R1OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $2.74
    DeepSeek-R1-0528OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $2.74
    DeepSeek-V2.5OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $0.42
    DeepSeek-V3OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $1.37
    DeepSeek-V3 0324OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $1.42
    DeepSeek-V3.1OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    $1.27
    DeepSeek-V3.2OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source · via OpenRouter
    $0.57
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    Which model leads Tau Bench Airline right now?

    As of August 20, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic is #1 for Tau Bench Airline at 70%. Ranked by the Tau Bench Airline score This board also tracks Tau Bench Airline. Next on the same board: MiniMax M1 80K and GLM-4.5-Air. This tau bench airline leaderboard ranks models by Tau Bench Airline. 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)

    Top 8 for tau bench airline. Ranked by the Tau Bench Airline score Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
    RankModelTau Bench AirlineInput /MOutput /M
    1Claude Sonnet 4.570%$3.00$15.00
    2MiniMax M1 80K62%$0.55$2.20
    3GLM-4.5-Air60.8%$0.20$1.10
    4GLM-4.560.4%$0.60$2.20
    5Claude Sonnet 460%$3.00$15.00
    6Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct60%$0.22$1.80
    7Claude Opus 459.6%$15.00$75.00
    8Claude 3.7 Sonnet58.4%$3.00$15.00

    Tau Bench Airline FAQ

    Who ranks #1 on the Tau Bench Airline leaderboard?

    As of August 20, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Tau Bench Airline at 70%. API pricing is $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.

    What are the top models on Tau Bench Airline?

    The current Tau Bench Airline ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 70%; 2. MiniMax M1 80K at 62%; 3. GLM-4.5-Air at 60.8%.

    Which tau bench airline model is the cheapest?

    GPT-4.1 nano is the cheapest scored model on this tau bench airline leaderboard at $0.10/M input and $0.40/M output ($0.50 blended). Claude Sonnet 4.5 still leads Tau Bench Airline at 70%.

    Should I always pick the #1 Tau Bench Airline model?

    Not automatically. Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads Tau Bench Airline, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Tau Bench Airline against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

    How often is the Tau Bench Airline leaderboard updated?

    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.

    What is Tau Bench Airline?

    Tau Bench Airline is a public LLM eval (the Tau Bench Airline score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.

    Where is the Tau Bench Airline leaderboard?

    This page is the Tau Bench Airline leaderboard. Models are sorted by Tau Bench Airline, 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.

    How is this Tau Bench Airline ranking different from the official board?

    Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published Tau Bench Airline score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.