Intelligence Index thresholds now far cheaper per task, Artificial Analysis finds
The price of intelligence is collapsing at every fixed quality level while top-end capability prices keep climbing, so buyers face a widening spread between commodity and frontier performance. Teams benchmarking models should match their task's required score to the cheapest threshold model instead of defaulting to the highest scorer. The data also names concrete price leaders at each level, such as Claude Haiku 5.5 (xhigh) at US$0.12/task for a score of 41.
