Head to head

Any two models from the board, on the same tasks and graders.

Side A

Profile

Hosteddots-studio75 tok/sopenrouter

Side B

Profile

Hostedpoolside48 tok/sopenrouter

Overall

Wins 7 tasks, 41 test cases

Overall

Wins 1 task, 34 test cases

Dots3-Note Preview leads by 8 points and wins 7 of 9 tasks.

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Task by task

Dots3-Note Preview wins 7 of 9

Average score on each task, best build on each side. The higher score is highlighted. Hover a score for the test cases behind it.

TaskADots3-Note PreviewBLaguna S 2.1Lead

Overall

Tool Calling

Right tool, right args, right sequence?

Structured Output

Valid JSON matching the schema, correct fields?

Even

RAG / Retrieval QA

A correct answer grounded in the given context, with nothing made up?

Context Recall

Finds the one fact buried in a long context?

+39

Coding

Working code that passes hidden unit tests?

+50

Reasoning & Math

Multi-step math and logic with the exact right answer?

+21

Instruction Following

Obeys format, length, and content constraints to the letter?

+21

Classification

Correct label from a fixed set?

+14

Summarization

Compact summary that keeps the facts and invents none?

+17

The race

1 lead change

Score piled up over the 238 test cases both models ran, as a share of the suite's maximum. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Dots3-Note PreviewLaguna S 2.1

Every test case

238 test cases

One square per test case, in suite order. A square takes the color of the model that scored higher on it.

Tool Calling66

Structured Output22

RAG / Retrieval QA43

Context Recall70

Coding021

Reasoning & Math60

Instruction Following60

Classification40

Summarization62

41 won by Dots3-Note Preview34 won by Laguna S 2.1163 tied

Where it breaks

238 shared test cases

On the impossible tier, Dots3-Note Preview passes 23% of test cases and Laguna S 2.1 passes 19%.

TierADots3-Note PreviewBLaguna S 2.1Lead

Baseline

36 test cases

86%

53%

+33 pts

Hard

69 test cases

38%

29%

+9 pts

Impossible

133 test cases

23%

19%

+4 pts

Tiers come from the suite. Baseline is fair, hard is adversarial, and impossible is built so that nothing solves it. Each number is the share of test cases the model fully passed.

Thinking spend

Dots3-Note Preview spends 1.5× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Dots3-Note Preview

4.5Ktokens

Per test case, 62% of it thinking

Laguna S 2.1

2.5Ktokens

Per test case, 76% of it thinking

TaskADots3-Note PreviewBLaguna S 2.1

Tool Calling

8.8K52% thinking

4.2K74% thinking

Structured Output

2.9K49% thinking

1.4K97% thinking

RAG / Retrieval QA

3.4K58% thinking

1.5K79% thinking

Context Recall

1.7K65% thinking

66683% thinking

Coding

8K88% thinking

2.9K42% thinking

Reasoning & Math

6.2K57% thinking

5.6K87% thinking

Instruction Following

3.4K59% thinking

1.8K34% thinking

Classification

3.1K58% thinking

2.8K100% thinking

Summarization

2.5K61% thinking

51393% thinking

Average output tokens per test case, and how much of it was thinking.

What you'd run

The build behind each score. The better value in each row is highlighted.

SpecADots3-Note PreviewBLaguna S 2.1

Speed

75 tok/s

48 tok/s

Memory

—

Context

512K

262.1K

Cost per run

Quantization

—

Harness

openrouter

Faster, smaller, cheaper and more context count as better. Quantization and harness only describe the builds.