Who ranks #1 on the Terminus leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2 Instruct by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Terminus at 25%. API pricing is $0.50/M input and $0.50/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2 Instruct is #1 for Terminus at 25%. Ranked by the Terminus score 1 models in this index have a published Terminus score. Terminus leaderboard: rank models by Terminus next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2 Instruct by Moonshot AI is #1 for Terminus at 25%. Ranked by the Terminus score This board also tracks Terminus. This terminus leaderboard ranks models by Terminus. 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 | Terminus | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K2 Instruct | 25% | $0.50 | $0.50 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2 Instruct by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Terminus at 25%. API pricing is $0.50/M input and $0.50/M output.
Kimi K2 Instruct currently leads Terminus and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.50/M input and $0.50/M output ($1.00 blended).
Not automatically. Kimi K2 Instruct leads Terminus, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Terminus 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.
Terminus is a public LLM eval (the Terminus score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Terminus leaderboard. Models are sorted by Terminus, 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 Terminus score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.