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General assistant work: explanations, drafting, conversation, search-style QA. Quality measured by the LiveBench 2.0 average (reasoning, coding, long agentic work, browsing, data analysis, research and design, on questions refreshed each release). Cost is blended input+output.
Quality threshold: 30.0% on livebench-2-average. Ranking cost uses a 70% input / 30% output blend. Your workload estimate below uses your own token counts.
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Comparison group: livebench · livebench-2-average · release=2026-11-06; version=2.0; score=mean of tasks per suite; overall=weighted mean, long agentic x2, reasoning x1, coding x1.5, browser x1, data analysis x1, research x1, design x1.5. 2 evidence groups tracked; 25 records excluded from this recommendation because of comparison coverage, pricing, or the quality threshold.
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glm-5.3-flash [release=2026-11-06; version=2.0; score=mean of tasks per suite; overall=weighted mean, Long Agentic x2, Reasoning x1, Coding x1.5, Browser x1, Data Analysis x1, Research x1, Design x1.5]
baidu
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claude-haiku-5.5 [release=2026-11-06; version=2.0; score=mean of tasks per suite; overall=weighted mean, Long Agentic x2, Reasoning x1, Coding x1.5, Browser x1, Data Analysis x1, Research x1, Design x1.5]
Anthropic
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