alt Hacker Newsi think as the pricing has gone up on the Chinese models it has made them less appealing, and with the introduction of Gemma-4 not many are at the pareto frontier (also in my experience, not just the stats): https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall?viewBy=plot
FWIW in my recent testing I couldn't find a better model than Gemma 4 31B for the price (openrouter only). My use case was taking discussions and identifying business ideas, so somewhat conceptual problem solving type thing.