Ranking
Median time from sending the request to the first streamed token of any kind, so thinking time counts. Top 15 of 74.
| # | Model | First token | Speed (tok/s) | Score | Cost / question |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral | 0.3 s | 252 | 26.2% | $0.00019 |
| 2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral | 0.3 s | 124 | 42.5% | $0.00027 |
| 3 |  Hermes 4 405BNous | 0.3 s | 41 | 26.2% | $0.01 |
| 4 |  Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshotAI | 0.4 s | 136 | 65.0% | $0.006 |
| 5 |  MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 0.4 s | 77 | 62.5% | $0.00056 |
| 6 |  Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen | 0.4 s | 135 | 37.5% | $0.0037 |
| 7 | Qwen3 Coder NextQwen | 0.4 s | 106 | 62.5% | $0.0017 |
| 8 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral | 0.5 s | 145 | 28.8% | $0.025 |
| 9 |  Phi 4Microsoft | 0.5 s | 103 | 41.2% | $0.00012 |
| 10 |  Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 0.5 s | 180 | 22.5% | $0.000087 |
| 11 |  Reka Flash 3rekaai | 0.5 s | 101 | 1.2% | $0.0008 |
| 12 | Mistral Small 4Mistral | 0.5 s | 170 | 32.5% | $0.0019 |
| 13 |  Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA | 0.5 s | 116 | 43.8% | $0.00049 |
| 14 |  Muse Spark OpenMeta | 0.5 s | 220 | 77.5% | $0.0045 |
| 15 |  GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | 0.5 s | 83 | 67.5% | $0.00015 |