Who ranks #1 on the Vending Bench 2 leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Vending Bench 2 at 8017.6. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is #1 for Vending Bench 2 at 8017.6. Ranked by the Vending Bench 2 score 4 models in this index have a published Vending Bench 2 score. Vending Bench 2 leaderboard: rank models by Vending Bench 2 next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic is #1 for Vending Bench 2 at 8017.6. Ranked by the Vending Bench 2 score This board also tracks Vending Bench 2. Next on the same board: GLM-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro. This vending bench 2 leaderboard ranks models by Vending Bench 2. 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 | Vending Bench 2 | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 8017.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | GLM-5.1 | 5634.4 | $1.40 | $4.40 |
| 3 | Gemini 3 Pro | 5478.2 | $2.00 | $12.00 |
| 4 | Gemini 3 Flash | 3635 | $0.50 | $3.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Vending Bench 2 at 8017.6. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current Vending Bench 2 ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 4.6 at 8017.6; 2. GLM-5.1 at 5634.4; 3. Gemini 3 Pro at 5478.2.
Gemini 3 Flash is the cheapest scored model on this vending bench 2 leaderboard at $0.50/M input and $3.00/M output ($3.50 blended). Claude Opus 4.6 still leads Vending Bench 2 at 8017.6.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 4.6 leads Vending Bench 2, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Vending Bench 2 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.
Vending Bench 2 is a public LLM eval (the Vending Bench 2 score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Vending Bench 2 leaderboard. Models are sorted by Vending Bench 2, 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 Vending Bench 2 score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.