Gomoku

15×15 freestyle Gomoku: five or more in a row wins. Rapfi scores every empty cell by win rate; the answer is a cell. See Methodology.

Quality is the mean oracle score of the moves played, × 100. The best move scores 100; an illegal move or no move scores 0. Protocol boardbench-0.2.

Quality vs cost

7 of 7 models
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Z.ai
  • Meta
2030405060$0.001$0.01$0.1Claude Haiku 5.5 High · 19.1% · <$0.01 · Pareto frontierClaude Opus 5.5 High · 12.6% · $0.10DeepSeek V4.1 Flash High · 13.1% · $0.03GLM-5.3 Flash High · 34.0% · <$0.01 · Pareto frontierGPT-6 Luna High · 13.5% · <$0.01GPT-6.1 Sol High · 13.1% · $0.05Muse Spark 1.3 High · 46.5% · $0.09 · Pareto frontierMuse Spark 1.3 HighGLM-5.3 Flash HighClaude Haiku 5.5 HighGPT-6 Luna HighDeepSeek V4.1 Flash HighGPT-6.1 Sol HighClaude Opus 5.5 High
  • Pareto frontier: nothing plotted is both cheaper and better
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Z.ai
  • Meta

Horizontal axis is logarithmic.

Table

ModelQualityLegalityCostn
Muse Spark 1.3High46.5100.0$0.093
GLM-5.3 FlashHigh34.0100.0<$0.013
Haiku 5.5High19.1100.0<$0.013
LunaHigh13.5100.0<$0.013
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashHigh13.1100.0$0.033
SolHigh13.1100.0$0.053
Opus 5.5High12.6100.0$0.103

Headline is the mean move score × 100. n is answers: puzzles × samples.

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