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bestvaluemodel is a single-page, automatically refreshed view that plots every model on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index against its API price and computes the value frontier, the models that nothing cheaper also beats on score.

It answers the question the member it derives from never renders directly: at my budget, which is the most capable model I can buy.

What it is
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A static page (bestvaluemodel.terrydjony.workers.dev) plus a public repository, built by a solo developer publishing as terryds and deployed on Cloudflare Workers. A GitHub Actions workflow fetches Artificial Analysis’s free data API every six hours, commits the snapshot to the repository only when something changed, and redeploys only on change, so the git history doubles as a dated diff log of the market. The page computes the frontier client-side (sort by price ascending, keep every model that outscores everything cheaper, ties to the higher score then the lower price) and renders it three ways: a price-versus-score scatter, a budget lookup table with a pick and a runner-up per price rung, and a full sortable table with one row per reasoning setting. A “What changed” card renders changelog.json, a per-run diff of added, removed, re-scored, and re-priced models, capped at 90 entries. Every number on the page belongs to one source, Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index and prices, attributed per that API’s terms, with AA’s cost-per-task figures taken as published. The operator credits a hand-maintained predecessor (vps.sonnylab.com’s “Which model is worth it” chart) as the inspiration this project automates.

Status
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Young but demonstrating the sustained operation its first rejection demanded: created 2026-09-24, with bot-committed data refreshes landing every few hours through 2026-11-14 and the changelog showing diffs on almost every day since mid-October, including Beam 1.0’s price cut and a Quasar reprice. The feed’s largest event landed on 2026-10-28 as the upstream Artificial Analysis index re-base the page itself warns about: one run removing 354 rows and re-scoring 73 (427 changes), followed by a same-day run that added Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 59.4 as the page’s new top score at a blended $8 and doubled Gemini 4 Argon’s prices, and a 2026-10-29 run trimming five Claude Fable 5.1 cost-per-task figures. The diff cadence has kept its rhythm since: a 2026-10-29 run added eight rows in one sweep (Mistral Large 4 in two settings among them) while cutting Mistral Large 4 Preview’s blended price by half, a 2026-10-30 run added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and a Qwen3.8 27B row, and a 2026-10-31 run cut that DeepSeek row’s prices hours after it landed (blended $0.787 to $0.525). November continued the pattern: a 2026-11-03 run re-scored roughly 60 rows in one sweep and pushed Gemini 4 Carbon to 60, six new rows landed on 2026-11-04 (Grok 4.6 Xhigh and GPT-5.6 Luna Max among them), Tencent Hy4 joined at 34.6 and Claude Opus 5 (Max) at 44.2 on 2026-11-05 while Gemini 4 Argon (High)’s cost per task rose from $7.68 to $9.95, Inkling 2 Small (Thinking Machines) arrived on 2026-11-06, and a 2026-11-07 run cut Nemotron 3.5 Super VL’s blended price to $0.256. The mid-November runs kept both rhythms: a 2026-11-09 sweep added nine rows headed by all five Claude Fable 5.2 settings (Max at 64.6, the page’s new top score, at a blended $16), a 2026-11-12 run added the four Gemini 4 Hydrogen settings while halving the Argon and Carbon price lines (blended $8 back to $4, reversing the 2026-10-28 doubling), and a 2026-11-14 run added Gemini 4 Argon (Medium) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (High) while nudging Nemotron 3.5 Super VL back up to $0.275. The repository held 26 stars and 4 forks as of 2026-10-25, with no license file, so the code is public but carries no reuse rights. Community footprint is zero: an HN search returns no stories as of 2026-10-25, and I found no independent write-up of any kind. The category rejected it at one day old in September as a derivative of member Artificial Analysis; the standing decision allowed a reopen on demonstrated sustained operation, and this run resolves that reopen with admission.

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Strengths
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  • The budget lookup is the only artifact in this category that turns a capability score into a purchase decision directly: find your price rung, read the pick.
  • The pipeline is auditable end to end: public code, committed daily snapshots, a per-run diff feed, and a deploy that fires only when data moved.
  • The reading caveats are careful for a one-person page: it documents why cached-input and batch pricing are excluded, why reasoning settings get separate rows, and that AA’s cost-per-task covers fewer models.

Cautions
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  • Every number is one member’s measurement, so the frontier inherits Artificial Analysis’s methodology wholesale; a distorted Index distorts every rung.
  • One operator, 26 stars, zero independent coverage, and no license file, so there is no second pair of eyes and no reuse rights.
  • The site lives on AA’s free API (1,000 requests a day, attribution required, terms AA can change), so its continuity is borrowed.
  • The frontier resets whenever AA re-bases the Index, and the page itself warns against comparing figures across versions.

Pricing
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Free: the page, the code, and the committed data snapshots are public, with no paid tier and no advertising. No price history applies.

Compared to
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  • Artificial Analysis: the first-party measurement this view consumes; AA publishes the inputs, bestvaluemodel computes the frontier AA never renders.
  • whatmodel.sh: the other composite that converts leaderboard data into a decision; whatmodel.sh answers what fits your machine, bestvaluemodel what fits your budget.
  • OpenRouter Rankings: what developers actually spend on, as the revealed-preference counterweight to what the price-quality math says they should buy.

Bottom line
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Recommended as a quick value-for-money lookup before picking a model on a budget, and as a clean example of a derived view that shows its diffs; not as a capability source (it measures nothing itself) and not as a substitute for AA’s own data. My disagreeable claim: this one-page derivative is more useful to a buyer than most leaderboards it sits beside, because its output is a decision rather than another number.

Changes
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  • 2026-10-25 - Created, resolving the reopen the standing decision granted on demonstrated sustained operation (a month of refreshes through 2026-10-25).
  • 2026-10-28 - Volatile re-verification after the 2026-10-28 push: the per-run diff feed recorded its largest event yet (427 rows removed, 72 re-scored, none added, the pattern of an upstream Artificial Analysis index re-base), with the every-few-hours bot refresh cadence unchanged.
  • 2026-10-29 - Volatile re-verification after the 2026-10-29 push: the 10-28 re-base corrected to 354 removals and 73 re-scores (427 changes; the prior entry miscounted), the same-day follow-up recorded (Gemini 4 Carbon added at 59.4 as the page’s new top score, Gemini 4 Argon’s prices doubled), and a 2026-10-29 run trimming five Claude Fable 5.1 cost figures; the every-few-hours bot cadence continues.
  • 2026-10-31 - Volatile re-verification after the 2026-10-31 push: an 2026-10-29 run added eight rows at once while halving Mistral Large 4 Preview’s blended price, the 2026-10-30 run added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and a Qwen3.8 27B row, and a 2026-10-31 run cut the DeepSeek row’s prices hours after it landed (blended $0.787 to $0.525); the repository remains unlicensed and the bot cadence unchanged.
  • 2026-11-07 - Volatile re-verification after the November pushes: a 2026-11-03 run re-scored roughly 60 rows in one sweep and pushed Gemini 4 Carbon to 60, the 11-04 to 11-06 runs added eight rows (Tencent Hy4 at 34.6, Claude Opus 5 Max at 44.2, Inkling 2 Small, Grok 4.6 Xhigh, and GPT-5.6 Luna Max among them) while doubling Gemini 4 Argon (High)’s cost per task from $7.68 to $9.95, and a 2026-11-07 run cut Nemotron 3.5 Super VL’s blended price to $0.256; the repository remains unlicensed and the bot cadence unchanged.
  • 2026-11-14 - Volatile re-verification after the mid-November pushes: a 2026-11-09 sweep added nine rows headed by all five Claude Fable 5.2 settings (Max at 64.6, the page’s new top score, at a blended $16), a 2026-11-12 run added the four Gemini 4 Hydrogen settings and halved the Argon and Carbon price lines (blended $8 back to $4, reversing the 10-28 doubling), and a 2026-11-14 run added Gemini 4 Argon (Medium) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (High); the repository remains unlicensed and the bot cadence unchanged.

See also
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References
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  • https://bestvaluemodel.terrydjony.workers.dev/ - the live page: frontier definition, budget lookup, what-changed card, and the how-to-read caveats (fetched 200, 2026-10-25; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-28, unchanged)
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terryds/bestvaluemodel/main/README.md - architecture, the AA API attribution and its 1,000-request daily quota, and the vps.sonnylab.com inspiration (fetched 200, 2026-10-25)
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terryds/bestvaluemodel/main/.github/workflows/update-and-deploy.yml - the every-six-hours cron and the commit-and-deploy-only-on-change design (fetched 200, 2026-10-25)
  • https://bestvaluemodel.terrydjony.workers.dev/data/changelog.json - the per-run diff feed, entries on nearly every day since mid-October including Beam 1.0’s 2026-10-22 price cut (fetched 200, 2026-10-25; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-28, the 2026-10-28 entry holds 427 removals and 72 re-scores with no additions; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-29, the re-base reads 354 removals and 73 re-scores, a same-day follow-up adds Gemini 4 Carbon at 59.4 and doubles Argon’s prices, and a 2026-10-29 entry trims five Fable costs; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-31, the 10-29 entry adds eight rows and halves Mistral Large 4 Preview, the 10-30 entry adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Qwen3.8 27B, and a 10-31 entry cuts the DeepSeek row’s blended price from $0.787 to $0.525; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-01, no entries after the 10-31 DeepSeek price cut; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-07, the 11-02 to 11-07 entries behind this refresh: the 11-03 run’s roughly 60-row re-score with Gemini 4 Carbon at 60, the 11-04 to 11-06 additions including Tencent Hy4, Claude Opus 5 Max, and Inkling 2 Small, Argon’s cost-per-task rise, and the 11-07 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL cut; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-14, the 11-09 to 11-14 entries behind this refresh: the 11-09 sweep adding nine rows including all five Claude Fable 5.2 settings (Max 64.6 at $16), the 11-10 Apodex 1.1 re-addition, the 11-12 Gemini 4 Hydrogen additions with the Argon and Carbon halvings, the 11-12 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Solar Pro 4 additions, and the 11-14 Argon (Medium) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (High) additions)
  • https://api.github.com/repos/terryds/bestvaluemodel - repository state: created 2026-09-24, 26 stars and 4 forks as of 2026-10-25, no license (fetched 200, 2026-10-25; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-28, pushed 2026-10-28; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-29, pushed 2026-10-29; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-31, pushed 2026-10-31; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-01, pushed 2026-11-01; star figure as the dated baseline; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-07, pushed 2026-11-07, still no license; re-fetched 200, 2026-11-14, pushed 2026-11-14, still no license)
  • https://api.github.com/repos/terryds/bestvaluemodel/commits?per_page=100 - 45 commits from 2026-09-24 through 2026-10-25, the sustained-operation record (fetched 200, 2026-10-25; re-fetched 200, 2026-10-28, bot data refreshes every few hours since, all “data: refresh from Artificial Analysis”)
  • https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=%22bestvaluemodel%22&tags=story - zero stories: the missing community footprint, stated as a signal (fetched 200, 2026-10-25)
  • https://vps.sonnylab.com/model-value-2026-07.html - the hand-maintained predecessor the project cites as inspiration, itself updated through 2026-10-24 (fetched 200, 2026-10-25)