> the most popular model

It was free for a long time. That usually skews the statistics. It was the same with grok-code-fast1.

Exactly. When I read the headline I thought: "Ofc it is, its free."

I should have clarified I didn't use the free version...

the real surprising part to me is that, despite being the cheapest model on board, stepfun is often able to score high at pure performance. Other models at the same price range (e.g. kimi) fails to do that.

Glm also has their subscription witch I would assume heavy users to use.

I used to use these various models for my claw-like and what they had a habit of doing is taking way more agent rounds and way more tokens to produce something that Sonnet would produce from far less. My total cost ended up being the same to do useful things.