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The economic metric

The Cost of Reliable AI

Enterprise readiness is not maximal autonomy, it is the minimum total cost of hitting a reliability target. An agent self-rates its confidence, classifies the case, and escalates to a human when it is not confident enough. The metric is the model cost plus the human oversight cost it still requires.

The explorer below is anchored to measured results from CliniCARE-Bench and PSEBench. Choose a benchmark to compare each arm's measured model cost and fraction of cases sent for human review at a given reliability target.

Benchmark
$ per reviewed case
* capped at human ceiling = 0.90

total cost = model_cost + (review_fraction × human_cost)

$0$6$12$18$24$3070%75%80%85%89%Target reliabilityTotal cost per case ($)claude-opus5claude-sonnet5codex-gpt54codex-gpt54minicodex-gpt55codex-gpt56lunacodex-gpt56solgemini-31progemini-35flashgemini-36flashopencode-ds4flashopencode-ds4proopencode-glm52opencode-gptoss120bopencode-kimik2p7opencode-minimaxm3opencode-museglimmer30bopencode-nemotron3ultraopencode-qwen37Y=85.0%
claude-opus5
claude-sonnet5
codex-gpt54
codex-gpt54mini
codex-gpt55
codex-gpt56luna
codex-gpt56sol
gemini-31pro
gemini-35flash
gemini-36flash
opencode-ds4flash
opencode-ds4pro
opencode-glm52
opencode-gptoss120b
opencode-kimik2p7
opencode-minimaxm3
opencode-museglimmer30b
opencode-nemotron3ultra
opencode-qwen37

Leaderboard

CliniCARE-Bench at 85.0% target reliability

RankModelModel costTarget reliabilityReview fractionTotal cost
1claude-sonnet5$0.923285.0%35.20%$9.72
2codex-gpt55$1.509785.0%33.20%$9.81
3claude-opus5$2.048885.0%36.40%$11.15
4opencode-glm52$1.080085.0%43.07%$11.85
5codex-gpt56sol$1.118085.0%45.20%$12.42
6codex-gpt56luna$0.208785.0%57.20%$14.51
7codex-gpt54mini$0.203485.0%58.93%$14.94
8opencode-minimaxm3$0.390085.0%58.67%$15.06
9opencode-qwen37$0.190085.0%59.87%$15.16
10codex-gpt54$0.726385.0%57.73%$15.16
11opencode-ds4pro$1.110085.0%66.27%$17.68
12opencode-kimik2p7$3.270085.0%68.67%$20.44
13opencode-nemotron3ultra$0.536285.0%81.47%$20.90
14opencode-museglimmer30b$0.861385.0%80.27%$20.93
15opencode-ds4flash$0.120085.0%84.67%$21.29
16opencode-gptoss120b$0.100985.0%91.87%$23.07
17gemini-31pro$0.949585.0%100.00%$25.95
18gemini-36flash$1.148685.0%100.00%$26.15
19gemini-35flash$1.166385.0%100.00%$26.17