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Undominated.ai
Best first. Then price. The board that names the models that are both worse and dearer.
Undominated.ai is an independent AI inference price index. It ranks models on independently measured capability first. Price breaks ties. A model that is both worse and dearer, and can still be replaced by something that does the job, is named as dominated. Unrated is not a failed score. Snapshot counts move. The live board is the source. The site takes no cut of inference, no affiliate, and no paid placement.
The method, in one pass
- Quality first, then price. A blended value score hides the worse-and-dearer row.
- A model is dominated when something else is better and cheaper and can still do the job.
- Unrated is not zero. Most of a catalogue can lack an independent quality number.
- Headline price is not always the whole price. Read the methodology page for effective price.
- Corrections go through a public GitHub issue with a primary source.
What it is not
- Not an affiliate list and not a paid placement board.
- Not a recommendation to buy or to drop a vendor.
- Not a frozen market fact. Catalogue membership and frontier rows move with the next fetch.
- Not Artificial Analysis republished. Do not copy third-party index scores from this page.
How this sits next to ROUTE
Undominated is the public index. ROUTE is the operating discipline in The Model Portfolio: register every model, type the objective, write the routing policy, track cost and quality, evolve on a cadence. The index names dominated rows. The book tells you how to govern the mix you actually run.
Any count you remember from an essay is a snapshot. Use the live board, not a remembered number.