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Elephant 1

Early evidence, 10 results from 1 source, on 1 use case. Elephant 1 is best for speed under pressure; it is not on sale through OpenRouter, so it is here for reference.

Results 13 Nov 2026 · 10 results · 1 source

Price per million tokens
Not available through OpenRouter
Speed
Not measured
Intelligence Index
Not measured
Spring Prompt overall
Not ranked yet
needs our benchmarks and two groups of results
Developer
Baseten
Weights not published
Released
Not recorded
no launch date in our tracker or our sources

Measured cost per task

API cost recorded in our benchmark runs, excluding judging.

TaskBenchmarkCost per task
Game of bullet chessBulletBench≈ $0.001

How good is it, and for what?

Each use case ranks the available models its benchmarks measured. The bar shows its percentile in that field, best to the right. Open a row for the results behind it.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live Not measured
  • CatalogBench: has not measured this model.
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is Not measured
  • DeckBench: has not measured this model.
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled Not measured
  • SurveyBench: has not measured this model.
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending Not measured
  • ROASBench: has not measured this model.
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls Not measured
  • tau2-bench: has not measured this model.
  • Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) V4: has not measured this model.
  • OpenHands Index: has not measured this model.
  • Microsoft STATE-Bench: has not measured this model.
  • Artificial Analysis: has not measured this model.
  • Vending-Bench 2: has not measured this model.
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects Not measured
  • APEX-Agents: has not measured this model.
  • GDP.pdf: has not measured this model.
  • Remote Labor Index: has not measured this model.
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge Not measured
  • Artificial Analysis: has not measured this model.
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality Not measured
  • Arena (formerly LMArena): has not measured this model.
  • UGI Leaderboard: has not measured this model.
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers Not measured
  • Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard: has not measured this model.
  • Arena (formerly LMArena): has not measured this model.
  • SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI): has not measured this model.
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) 5th of 35 available
BenchmarkElephant 1Rank among availableBest available
BulletBenchBulletBench Lightning 10+1: ladder Elo 614 4th of 18 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 892
BulletBenchBulletBench Bullet 60s: ladder Elo 571 8th of 33 Gemini 3.8 Flash 1,068

Nearest alternatives

  • The most capable open-weights modelMiMo-V2.6-Pro$0.54 blended · Intelligence Index 46.3

Against Elephant 1. "Similar intelligence" means within 4 points or better.

Against the alternatives

The models you would most likely weigh it against: the leaders of the groups above.

Scroll sideways to see every alternative.

Elephant 1Claude Fable 5.2
leads overall
Claude Opus 5.5
near the top overall
GPT-6.1 Terra
near the top overall
GPT-6.1 Sol
near the top overall
Price per million tokens – $16.00$8.00$2.00$4.00
Tokens a second – –96–53
Intelligence Index – –57.6–51.8
Spring Prompt overall – 91828180
Rank among available models, by use case
Product listings – 5th13th4th2nd
Decks from an analysis – 3rd5th7th4th
User surveys – 1st4th6th3rd
Marketing planning – 1st9th2nd–
Agents and tool use – –3rd7th6th
Professional work – –3rd–9th
Reasoning and knowledge – –1st22nd6th
Writing – –5th–16th
Sticking to the facts – –3rd–18th
Speed under pressure 5th of 35 9th–19th4th

Shaded figures are better than Elephant 1's. A dash means no result.

Where it has been measured

Compared with the models available today (it is not on sale itself), in the top quarter (by percentile) for speed under pressure.

Not timed: Artificial Analysis, our source for speed, has not tested it

Every result

10 published results from 1 source, each in the source's own units, with the configuration that produced it.

BulletBench · measured by Spring Prompt · 10 results
MeasureValueRankConfigurationDated
BulletBench Bullet 60s: cost per gameUS dollars, lower is better $0.0008 12 of 70 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Bullet 60s: games lost on time% of games, lower is better 0.0% 1 of 70 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Bullet 60s: invalid moves% of moves, lower is better 0.0% 1 of 70 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Bullet 60s: ladder Eloladder Elo, higher is better 571
420–699
15 of 70 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Bullet 60s: median move timemilliseconds, lower is better 0.5 s 11 of 70 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Lightning 10+1: cost per gameUS dollars, lower is better $0.0008 13 of 46 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Lightning 10+1: games lost on time% of games, lower is better 0.0% 1 of 46 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Lightning 10+1: invalid moves% of moves, lower is better 0.0% 1 of 46 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Lightning 10+1: ladder Eloladder Elo, higher is better 614
470–746
7 of 46 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026
BulletBench Lightning 10+1: median move timemilliseconds, lower is better 0.5 s 12 of 46 Elephant 1
provider default reasoning
12 Nov 2026

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