Variant C — the budget explorable

Design thesis: don't show the reader a frontier — let them push on it. Pick a workload, a budget, and a taste for smarts, and the page computes your personal pareto pick from the same ranked[] rows, live, showing what you'd have to give up to buy the next intelligence step.

All selection runs client-side over the printed frontier data. † = UNVERIFIED modeled cap; sub offerings are priced per-turn from published tables (capped purchases modeled at 8×). No backend, no inference — the frontier is the interface.

1 · What's your budget per turn?

Costs below $0.01 are sub-cent; the exact box takes full precision. Note: OpenRouter costs are listed per turn under the agent-chat shape (blended 30-day traces), not per token — that is the honest unit here.

2 · Which workload?

3 · What's your taste for smarts?

"Value" picks by intelligence-per-dollar; the log variant is for when a 200× cost spread makes raw ratios meaningless.

4 · Your pick:

 
offeringxystatus at your budgetdominated by

"status" is recomputed at your budget ceiling: reachable = cost ≤ budget and not dominated at the current ceiling; dominated-by is the same list the frontier reports.

5 · What the next intelligence step would cost you

 

Sources: AA Intelligence Index v4.1.1 (current scale only — older articles use renormalized scales and are never mixed in) · GPQA Diamond AA-run · SWE-bench Verified via vals.ai independent same-harness (Mini-SWE-agent); openlm.ai rows are aggregator/vendor-reported · prices: OpenCode Go + ClinePass published tables and the live OpenRouter catalog · workload shapes: agent-chat from real 30-day traces, coding-session from OpenCode Go published request patterns. † caps are UNVERIFIED models: ClinePass assumed $35; $20-tier subscriptions modeled at 8× purchase price ($160) per community reporting. Y-axis labels follow each frontier's per-row secondary_label (note: math-smarts-coding's axes string says SWE-bench-Verified but its rows carry GPQA-Diamond values — the label shown is the authoritative one). Models without verified scores are excluded-with-reason (muse-glimmer; GLM-5.3/Flash and muse-spark lack verifiable GPQA — notable because GLM-5.3 leads the general index). ≈-near is computed client-side as: within 10% of the nearest strictly-better-or-tie row on the frontier's primary axis (cost or speed); it reproduces the generator's (+X% off) chips in 13 of 14 cases — the one divergence is qwen3-30b-a3b-2507 on chat-metered-responsiveness, where the generator reports +8% off and this rule finds no dominator within 10% of its speed.