---
title: "Undominated.ai | Independent AI inference price index"
description: Capability first, then price. Named dominated rows. No cut of inference. The live board is the source.
image: "https://lenvanderhof.com/photos/len-portrait-1.jpg"
---

Venture

# 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.**

Method

## The method, in one pass

Any count you remember from an essay is a snapshot. Use the live board, not a remembered number.

1. 01

### Quality first, then price



A blended value score hides the worse-and-dearer row.
2. 02

### A model is dominated when so



A model is dominated when something else is better and cheaper and can still do the job.
3. 03

### Unrated is not zero



Most of a catalogue can lack an independent quality number.
4. 04

### Headline price is not always the whole price



Read the methodology page for effective price.
5. 05

### Corrections go through a pub



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.

## Live sources

Live boardMethodologyIndependenceReport a wrong figureLaunch essayROUTEThe Model Portfolio

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