# Cost-Performance Frontier **Entity class:** Economic and technical concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Model economics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A cost-performance frontier identifies systems that deliver the greatest measured capability for a given monetary, computational, latency, or energy cost. ## Mechanism and significance A model can be highly capable yet lie behind the frontier if another system reaches comparable performance more cheaply, or delivers greater performance at the same cost. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Terminal-Bench]] · [[Long-Horizon Reasoning]] · [[Intelligence per Parameter]] · [[Intelligence per Dollar]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.