Statistics

# LLM statistics

> Dated, sourced statistics on the best AI models, open vs closed weights, US vs China, prices, context windows and release pace. Free to cite.
- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/stats
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Title: LLM Statistics October 2026: Citable Facts on AI Models

Each statistic below is a complete, dated sentence regenerated from the live dataset. Quote it as written and link to its anchor.

Last verified October 10, 2026

## Best AI model

As of October 10, 2026, GPT-6 Astra by OpenAI is the top-ranked AI model on the Noometry Index with 70.8, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 69.0.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/best/overall) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-best-model

## Best open-weight model

As of October 10, 2026, the best open-weight model is Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI), ranked #15 overall.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/best/open-source) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-best-open-model

## Open weights in the top 50

As of October 10, 2026, 8 of the top 50 ranked AI models (16%) have downloadable open weights.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/best/open-source) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-open-share

## US vs China in the top 50

As of October 10, 2026, 39 of the top 50 AI models come from US labs, 11 from Chinese labs and 0 from European labs.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/ai-race) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-region-share

## Price of a top-10 model

As of October 10, 2026, the median top-10 AI model costs $11.25 per million tokens at a 3:1 input-to-output blend.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/llm-pricing) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-top10-price

## Price range

As of October 10, 2026, API input prices across 335 priced models range from $0.017 to $150 per million tokens.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/llm-pricing) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-price-range

## Largest context window

As of October 10, 2026, the largest context window among tracked models is 1.05M tokens (GPT-6 Astra); 98 models accept one million tokens or more.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/best/large-context-window) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-context

## Release pace

In the 12 months to October 10, 2026, Noometry recorded 167 new AI model releases, about one every 2 days.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/model-releases) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-releases

## Benchmark coverage

As of October 10, 2026, Noometry tracks 12,766 benchmark results across 131 benchmarks for 514 AI models; 354 models have enough results to be ranked.

[Underlying data](https://noometry.com/benchmarks) Link: https://noometry.com/stats#stat-coverage