Model Arena

Pick a task. Watch the models race. Replays are recorded and free; live runs are real, capped, and behind a bot-check. Not an Elo leaderboard — a priced race: the cheapest correct answer wins, and every cost is computed from the provider's own usage counts (estimates are marked ≈).

cost-efficiency

Count to fifty

The cheapest lane was right. The one costing 74× as much never finished.

~40s · 4 models

reasoning

Count the e's

One sentence, one letter, one number. Nobody's safe.

~15s · 4 models

wit

Spreadsheet haiku

Three lines, must contain "cell". Whether it's any good is your call.

~30s · 4 models

extraction

Read the receipt

A coffee run becomes JSON. "July 5th" and "two flat whites" are the traps.

~35s · 3 models

extraction

Find the emails

Three addresses buried in office chatter — one of them spelled out in words.

~30s · 4 models

instruction-following

Exactly twelve words

Summarize a paragraph in exactly 12 words. Count along on your fingers.

~25s · 3 models

instruction-following

Second-letter sort

Eight words, alphabetized by their second letter. Auditable mid-stream.

~25s · 3 models

instruction-following

Swap a for 4

Every "a" becomes a 4. One missed letter loses the lane.

~15s · 3 models

reasoning

Calendar math

Name the third Wednesday of September. Showing your work costs money here.

~15s · 4 models

wit

Engineer's fortune

One line, under 12 words, three banned words. The tripwire is live.

~15s · 3 models