> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scaledown.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> How ScaleDown's task-specific models compare to frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and latency.

ScaleDown models are small and built for one job each: **Classify**, **Extract**, **Summarize** and **Compress**. We benchmark each against leading general-purpose models on public datasets and compare accuracy, cost and latency side by side.

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  <Card title="Methodology" icon="flask" href="/benchmarks/methodology">The four tasks, their datasets and metrics.</Card>
  <Card title="ScaleDown vs OpenAI" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/openai">Accuracy and latency against GPT-5.5, Mini and Nano.</Card>
</CardGroup>

## Each comparison reports

* **Accuracy**: ScaleDown versus every model in a provider's lineup.
* **Cost**: price per 1K requests for each model.
* **Latency**: response time per task.

## Head-to-head

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  <Card title="OpenAI" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/openai">
    GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.4 Nano

    8.72% higher accuracy, 2.4× faster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Anthropic" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/providers#anthropic">
    Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5

    8.0% higher accuracy, 3.8× faster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Gemini" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/providers#gemini">
    3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite

    9.0% higher accuracy, 8.3× faster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Grok" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/providers#grok">
    Grok 4.3, Grok 4.2

    7.93% higher accuracy, 2.2× faster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="DeepSeek" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/providers#deepseek">
    V4 Pro, V4 Flash

    19.5% higher accuracy, 4.1× faster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Qwen" icon="chart-line" href="/benchmarks/providers#qwen">
    Qwen3.8 Max, 27B, Qwen3.5 4B

    16.71% higher accuracy, 13.9× faster.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

[All benchmarks](https://scaledown.ai/benchmarks): Full charts, cost tables and latency on scaledown.ai.


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