Speed & Cost · sub-raceDominant lead
Output Speed race
Median output tokens per second on first-party APIs at default settings.
- Leader
- 3.5 Flash
- Margin
- 213 tok/s
- 68.7% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 22
- in a row
- Changes
- 1
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Oct 19, 20263.5 Flash leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
#1 frontier3.5 Flashgpt-ossHaiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaV4.1 FlashLlama 4
Reigns at #1
Longest: gpt-oss, 41 weeks (from Aug 2025).
Sibling races
More speed & cost races
Why this race matters
Speed changes how you work: fast models invite iteration, slow ones invite context-switching.
How it is scored
Median output tokens/s across providers over the past 7 days.
Unit: tpsHigher is betterPhoto finish under 6 tok/sDominant over 38 tok/s
Data provenance
Independent measurement of intelligence indices, speed, latency and price.
Scores here are illustrative placeholders that mimic real benchmark patterns. Swap in live data through the score provider. Methodology