How it was run
- Same prompt, word for word, in an empty folder, with nobody answering the model's questions.
- Every model on its highest setting: extra-high for Claude, GPT and Grok, high for Gemini (Google's top level). Kimi K3.1 Pro was set to extra-high, which OpenRouter may have ignored.
- Claude models ran in Claude Code, OpenAI models in Codex, Grok in Cursor, both Gemini models in Gemini CLI, and Kimi K3.1 Pro in Claude Code over OpenRouter.
- One run each, scored out of 10 by playing the build. Small gaps between scores don't mean much.
- Costs are what each run would cost at the model's list API price, worked out from the tokens it used. The GPT models actually ran on a ChatGPT plan. Grok ran in Cursor, which doesn't report tokens, so it has no cost.