Who ranks #1 on the V Star leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2.6 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on V Star at 96.9%. API pricing is $0.96/M input and $3.97/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2.6 is #1 for V Star at 96.9%. Ranked by the V Star score 7 models in this index have a published V Star score. V Star leaderboard: rank models by V Star next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2.6 by Moonshot AI is #1 for V Star at 96.9%. Ranked by the V Star score This board also tracks V Star. Next on the same board: Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3.6-27B. This v star leaderboard ranks models by V Star. 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 | V Star | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K2.6 | 96.9% | $0.96 | $3.97 |
| 2 | Qwen3.6 Plus | 96.9% | $0.50 | $3.00 |
| 3 | Qwen3.6-27B | 94.7% | $0.60 | $3.60 |
| 4 | Qwen3.5-27B | 93.7% | $0.30 | $2.40 |
| 5 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | 93.2% | $0.40 | $3.20 |
| 6 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 92.7% | $0.25 | $2.00 |
| 7 | GLM-5V-Turbo | 89% | $1.20 | $4.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K2.6 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on V Star at 96.9%. API pricing is $0.96/M input and $3.97/M output.
The current V Star ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Kimi K2.6 at 96.9%; 2. Qwen3.6 Plus at 96.9%; 3. Qwen3.6-27B at 94.7%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the cheapest scored model on this v star leaderboard at $0.25/M input and $2.00/M output ($2.25 blended). Kimi K2.6 still leads V Star at 96.9%.
Not automatically. Kimi K2.6 leads V Star, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh V Star 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.
V Star is a public LLM eval (the V Star score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the V Star leaderboard. Models are sorted by V Star, 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 V Star score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.