Has anyone ever done a comparison between the smaller models like Luna, against the previous GPT 5 frontier models? Have we gotten to the point where the small models are as good as the frontier models of the past, or is there still a way to go?

I ran a prompt with ChatGPT since I'm also curious. The price reduction is crazy.

- GPT-5 high: score 35, approximately $0.37/task

- Luna medium: score 38, approximately $0.01/task

- Luna max: score 51, approximately $0.042/task

So Luna medium is:

- slightly more capable than GPT-5 high;

- approximately 35–40× cheaper per benchmark task.

And Luna max is:

- 16 Intelligence Index points better;

- still roughly 9× cheaper per task.

This reduction was possible within 1 year.