Village’s LLM Atlas maps the price-performance frontier: the strongest AI model at every price point. Closed models hold almost every budget An open-weight model is the best buy at 3% of budgets. Nearly all of those are at the cheap end, held by Google’s Gemma 4 E4B and Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Flash. In June, it was 41%. DeepSeek V4 Flash alone was the best buy across nearly a third of budgets, with Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 just above it. Two OpenAI releases took most of that back. GPT-6 Luna in September and...