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The models to reach for when you are writing, reasoning or building on an API. The top score matters most, but price and what builders actually use can move a model past one that scored higher.

  1. Claude Opus 5.5

    Top of the independent index, and the model line builders outside the Claude forums name more than any other. The one to use when the job is long and has to come back right.

    • 57.6 index #1 of 45
    • $4 / $20 per 1M value #34
    • 29 builds name Opus
    • 7 in the news ↑ from 1
  2. Claude Sonnet 5.5

    A whisker behind Opus on the index, at half the price and noticeably faster. The default we would hand most people.

    • 56 index #2 of 45
    • $2 / $10 per 1M value #22
    • 1 build names Sonnet
    • 3 in the news ↑ from 0
  3. GPT-6.1 Sol

    OpenAI at its best value: Sonnet's price, a few points lower on the index, and the second model line builders name most.

    • 51.8 index #7 of 45
    • $2 / $10 per 1M value #26
    • 15 builds name GPT-6
    • 10 in the news ↑ from 5
  1. Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle's first Gemini 4 model: claimed top coding benchmarks, vetting-gated access
    • 52.6 index #5 of 45
    • $2 / $10 per 1M value #25
    • 1 build names Gemini
    • 10 in the news ↑ from 8
  2. Muse Spark 1.3Meta's agentic coding model, tuned to finish long jobs in fewer steps
    • 48.1 index #10 of 45
    • $1.25 / $4.25 per 1M value #9
    • 12 in the news ↑ from 3
  3. Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic's small model at a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price, matching GPT-6 Luna
    • 43.4 index #16 of 45
    • $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M value #1
    • 4 in the news ↑ from 0
  4. GLM 5.3Z.ai's post-trained coding and agentic model on the GLM-5.2 base
    • 44.8 index #14 of 45
    • $1.40 / $4.40 per 1M value #12
    • Open weights
    • 0 in the news ↓ from 1
  5. Kimi K3Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship
    • 43.6 index #15 of 45
    • $3 / $15 per 1M value #33
    • Open weights
    • 2 builds name Kimi
    • 1 in the news ↓ from 3
  6. DeepSeek V4-FlashHigh-volume DeepSeek inference with a 1M-token context window
    • 34.3 index #26 of 45
    • $0.44 / $1.32 per 1M value #5
    • Open weights
    • 1 build names DeepSeek
    • 2 in the news → from 2

Scores: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 (2026-10-13). Builds: 291 of the 422 on /builds, r/ClaudeAI left out. News: the daily briefing, 30 days to 2026-10-21.

RANK BY CATEGORY
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
① Claude Opus 5.5 [57.6]
③ Claude Fable 5.1 [53.4]
#4 GPT-6 Astra [52.7]
#5 Gemini 4 Argon [52.6]
#6 Muse Wonder [52.4]
#7 GPT-6.1 Sol [51.8]
#8 Claude Opus 5 [50.8]
#9 Claude Fable 5 [49.6]
#10 Muse Spark 1.3 [48.1]
#11 GPT-6 Sol [47.6]
#12 GPT-5.6 Sol [47]
#13 Qwen 3.8-Max [45.4]
#14 GLM 5.3 [44.8]
#15 Kimi K3 [43.6]
#16 Claude Haiku 5.5 [43.4]
#17 GPT-5.6 Terra [42.1]
#18 Claude Opus 4.8 [41.8]
#19 Gemini 3.7 Flash [39.1]
#20 Grok 4.5 [38.8]
#21 Mistral Large 4 [38.4]
#22 Claude Sonnet 5 [38.2]
#23 GPT-6 Luna [38.1]
#24 GPT-5.6 Luna [37.3]
#25 DeepSeek V4-Pro [36]
#26 DeepSeek V4-Flash [34.3]
#27 Gemini 3.6 Flash [34]
#28 GLM-5.2 [33.7]
#29 Muse Spark 1.1 [33.7]
#30 Gemini 3.5 Flash [32.6]
#31 Claude 4.6 Sonnet [30.1]
#32 MiniMax M3 [29.2]
#33 Kimi K2.6 [27]
#34 GLM-5.1 [26.1]
#35 GPT-5.5 Instant [26]
#36 Kimi K2.7-Code [25.8]
#37 Inkling [25]
#38 Grok 4.3 [24.9]
#40 MiniMax M2.7 [22.8]
#41 Gemini 2.5 Pro [16.1]
#42 Mistral Medium 3.5 [14.2]
#43 Mistral Small 4 [11.3]
#44 Mistral Large 3 [9.3]
#45 Qwen3-Coder-Next [9.2]
Source: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, as of 2026-10-13. Shown only for models with independently verified scores. Not every tool in this category has published, comparable data.
RESULTS
152 tools • curated
Rank Tool Modality Pricing
① Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic's cheaper, faster follow-up to Opus 5, priced near Fable 5.1's level
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
② Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic's mid-tier model that lands within a few points of Opus 5.5 at half the price
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
③ GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI's week-later Sol update: near-Astra claims at one-fifth the price
LLMs Paid
4 Gemini 4 Argon
Google's first Gemini 4 model: claimed top coding benchmarks, vetting-gated access
LLMs Enterprise
5 Muse Spark 1.3
Meta's agentic coding model, tuned to finish long jobs in fewer steps
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
6 Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's small model at a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price, matching GPT-6 Luna
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
7 GLM 5.3
Z.ai's post-trained coding and agentic model on the GLM-5.2 base
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
8 Kimi K3
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
9 DeepSeek V4-Flash
High-volume DeepSeek inference with a 1M-token context window
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
10 Claude Fable 5.1
Fast reasoning model with built-in text watermarking for compliance
LLMs Paid
11 GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's AGI-capable model with autonomous software navigation and reasoning breakthroughs
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning proprietary
12 Muse Wonder
Meta's first frontier model, for long-running agents, coding and computer use
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
13 Claude Opus 5
Anthropic's frontier model, currently first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
14 Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's Mythos-class creative model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
15 GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI's coding-focused GPT-6 model at half the price of GPT-5.6 Sol
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
16 GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI's top-tier model for complex professional work
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
17 Qwen 3.8-Max
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, currently in preview
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
18 GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI's balanced GPT-5.6 model for intelligence and cost
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
19 Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
20 Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google's coding workhorse, three weeks after 3.6 Flash
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
21 Grok 4.5
xAI's flagship coding model, trained in partnership with Cursor
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
22 Mistral Large 4
Europe's 1-trillion-parameter model, in preview now with open weights promised
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
23 Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic's cheaper, near-Opus everyday model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
24 GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI's cheapest GPT-6 model, for high-volume clerical work
LLMs Paid
25 GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI's cost-optimized GPT-5.6 model for high-volume workloads
LLMs Freemium
26 DeepSeek V4-Pro
DeepSeek's open-weight model with permanent pricing
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
27 Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's faster, sharper agentic-coding upgrade to 3.5 Flash
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
28 GLM-5.2
753B open-weight MoE coding model with a 1M-token context, MIT licensed
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
29 Muse Spark 1.1
Meta's closed-weight agentic model, and its first paid model API
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
30 Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google's fast, capable multimodal model from I/O 2026
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
31 Claude 4.6 Sonnet
The industry standard for coding and nuanced instruction following
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
32 MiniMax M3
MiniMax's 1M-context agentic frontier model
LLMs, AI Assistants Freemium
33 Kimi K2.6
Moonshot's open-weight multimodal successor with long-context coding stability
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
34 GLM-5.1
MIT-licensed MoE flagship for 8-hour autonomous coding sessions
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
35 GPT-5.5 Instant
OpenAI's fast default ChatGPT model from May 2026
LLMs Freemium
36 Kimi K2.7-Code
Moonshot's specialized coding model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
37 Inkling
Thinking Machines' 975B Apache-2.0 model that takes text, images and audio natively
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
38 Grok 4.3
xAI's long-context flagship with a 1M-token window
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
39 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA's 550B open-weights reasoning model, built for inference speed
LLMs Free
40 MiniMax M2.7
Recursive self-improvement language model for real-world engineering
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
41 Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google's high-performance reasoning model with advanced coding
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
42 Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral's mid-tier workhorse for reasoning, coding, and instruction
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
43 Mistral Small 4
Unified open-source small model for chat, reasoning, vision, and coding
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
44 Mistral Large 3
Mistral's flagship open-weight multimodal frontier model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
45 Qwen3-Coder-Next
80B parameter open-weight coding powerhouse
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
46 NotebookLM
Google's AI Research Assistant: The Ultimate Study Tool
LLMs, Text → Audio, AI Assistants Free
47 Grok
xAI's real-time AI assistant
LLMs Paid
48 DeepSeek
The Efficiency Revolution: Frontier Intelligence at 1/100th the Cost
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
49 Llama
Meta's open-source large language model
LLMs Free
50 Mistral AI
European open-source and commercial LLM
LLMs Freemium
51 Cohere
Enterprise-focused LLM platform
LLMs Enterprise
52 Qwen
Alibaba's multilingual open-source LLM
LLMs Freemium
53 Microsoft Phi
Microsoft's efficient small language models
LLMs Free
54 Gemma
Google's open-source lightweight LLM
LLMs Free
55 Kimi k1.5
The 'Next DeepSeek' Movement: o1-Level Reasoning at 1/100th the Cost
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
56 Qwen 2.5-VL
The Open Vision-Reasoner: SOTA Multimodal Performance
Multimodal Reasoning, LLMs Free
57 DBRX
Databricks' high-performance open-source LLM
LLMs Enterprise
58 Llama 3.2 Vision
Meta's Open Multimodal Standard
Multimodal Reasoning, LLMs Free
59 Pixtral Large
The Open Vision Frontier: 124B Multimodal Power
Multimodal Reasoning, LLMs Freemium
60 InternVL 2.5
The Open-Source Vision Giant: 78B Multimodal Leader
Multimodal Reasoning, LLMs Free
61 Cursor Composer 2.5
Cursor's agentic coding model for multi-file software engineering
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Paid
62 OpenCode
Open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Free
63 Grok Build
xAI's agentic coding CLI for autonomous software engineering
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Freemium
64 Gemini Omni
Google's unified multimodal generation model
LLMs, Text → Image, Text → Video, Text → Audio, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
65 Gemini Spark
Google's personal AI agent for proactive assistance
AI Assistants, LLMs Freemium
66 Mistral Vibe
Mistral's unified work and coding agent
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Freemium
67 Claude Opus 4.6
The ceiling of enterprise autonomy with 1M context
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
68 Step 5 Preview
StepFun's 600B open-weight model for long-running agents, with a 1M-token context
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
69 OpenAI Ultrafast
14x speed tier for GPT-5.6 Sol via Cerebras wafer-scale hardware
LLMs proprietary
70 StepFun Step 3.7 Flash
StepFun's 198B MoE vision-language model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
71 GPT-5.6 Cyber
OpenAI's purpose-trained security model for vulnerability discovery and exploit development
LLMs proprietary
72 Fugu Ultra v2
Sakana's highest-capability orchestrator, scoring above Opus 5 and Fable 5 on Chartography without calling either
LLMs, Multi-Service Platforms Paid
73 Ox Alpha
Anonymous 1M-context reasoning model available free through OpenRouter
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
74 Kimi K2.7 Code Highspeed
Faster inference variant of Kimi's coding specialist
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
75 Claude Mythos 5
Limited-availability Mythos-class model without Fable 5 safety classifiers
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Enterprise
76 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
Compact 30B open-weight model with configurable reasoning for agents
LLMs Free
77 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
120B open-weight hybrid MoE for efficient multi-agent reasoning
LLMs Free
78 GLM-5-Turbo
Optimized GLM-5 variant for fast sequential task execution
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
79 GLM-5V-Turbo
Multimodal coding and visual-reasoning agent model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
80 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
One multimodal model for text, vision, audio, and video reasoning
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
81 MiniMax M2.7 Highspeed
Same M2.7 performance with significantly faster inference
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
82 Hunyuan Hy3 Preview
Tencent's latest open-source MoE flagship with tool use
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
83 Claude Opus 4.7
Frontier Opus model with higher-resolution vision and xhigh effort
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Enterprise
84 Ministral 3
Mistral's edge family of small, dense open-source models
LLMs Freemium
85 GLM-4.7-Flash
Free universal GLM model with a 200K context window
LLMs Free
86 GLM-4V-Flash
Free vision model for image understanding and document snapshots
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
87 GLM-5
744B-parameter open-weight MoE flagship for agentic planning and execution
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
88 GPT-5.3 Codex
The frontier model for complex reasoning and software architecture
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
89 Gemini 3 Ultra
Native multimodal intelligence with a 10M context window
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
90 Perplexity AI
The conversational search engine that replaced traditional search
LLMs Freemium
91 Consensus
AI search engine for peer-reviewed scientific research
LLMs Freemium
92 Grok 4.20
xAI's 2M-context beta model with multi-agent capabilities
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
93 Kimi K2.5
Moonshot's open-weight multimodal generalist with agent swarms
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
94 Hunyuan TurboS
Tencent's fast, cost-efficient flagship Hunyuan model
LLMs Freemium
95 DeepSeek V3.2
The 128K-context MoE flagship that introduced sparse attention
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
96 GLM-4.7
Strong general-reasoning model with interleaved thinking
LLMs Paid
97 GLM-4.6V
Vision-language model for visual reasoning and UI replication
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
98 Claude Opus 4.5
First Claude model with the effort parameter and context compaction
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
99 Hunyuan A13B Instruct
Tencent's efficient small-scale MoE instruct model
LLMs Freemium
100 Cursor Composer 1
Cursor's first-generation agentic coding model
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Paid
101 Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI's high-volume, 2M-context workhorse model
LLMs Paid
102 Claude Haiku 4.5
Fast, low-cost Claude model with extended thinking and Computer Use
LLMs, AI Assistants Paid
103 GLM-OCR
Document parsing model for PDF and image OCR
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
104 Claude Sonnet 4.5
Balanced Sonnet model with major coding and agentic improvements
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
105 Hunyuan 2.0 Think
The deep-thinking variant of Hunyuan 2.0
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
106 GLM-4.6
Mid-range coding and tool-calling model with 200K context
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
107 Grok Code Fast 1
xAI's fast, cheap coding specialist model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
108 GLM-4.5-Air
Cost-efficient reasoning, coding, and agent model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
109 Hunyuan 2.0 Instruct
Tencent's general-purpose instruction-tuned Hunyuan 2.0 model
LLMs Freemium
110 Qwen 3
Alibaba's open-source MoE flagship with thinking modes
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Free
111 Llama 4 Maverick
Meta's open-weight flagship with native multimodal reasoning
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
112 Llama 4 Scout
Long-context, efficient open multimodal model for edge and single-GPU use
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
113 Hunyuan T1
Tencent's Mamba-powered deep-thinking reasoning model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
114 Gemma 3
Google's open multimodal model for research and developers
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
115 Perplexity Sonar Deep Research
Autonomous research agent that performs multi-source deep dives
LLMs, AI Assistants Enterprise
116 Qwen 2.5-Max
Alibaba's closed-API flagship before Qwen 3
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
117 Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro
Chain-of-thought reasoning model for multi-step logical analysis
LLMs Paid
118 DeepSeek R1
The open-weight reasoning model that sparked the efficiency revolution
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
119 Gemini 2.0 Flash
Google's low-latency agentic model with native tool use
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, AI Assistants Freemium
120 Llama 3.3
Efficient 70B open model matching 405B quality
LLMs Free
121 Llama-3.1-Nemotron Ultra
NVIDIA-aligned 253B Llama 3.1 for helpfulness and instruction following
LLMs Free
122 Llama-3.1-Nemotron Super
NVIDIA-aligned 49B Llama 3.1 for balanced performance
LLMs Free
123 Llama-3.1-Nemotron Nano
NVIDIA-aligned 8B Llama 3.1 for efficient inference
LLMs Free
124 Qwen 2.5-Coder
Alibaba's open coding-specialist model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
125 Hunyuan Large
Tencent's 389B-parameter open-source MoE language model
LLMs Free
126 Perplexity Sonar Pro
Advanced search model with deeper reasoning and richer citations
LLMs Paid
127 Qwen-Math
Open mathematical reasoning specialist
LLMs Free
128 Llama 3.1 405B
The first frontier-scale open-weight language model
LLMs Free
129 Gemini 1.5 Flash
Fast, cost-efficient multimodal model with a 1M context window
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
130 Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google's long-context multimodal flagship with up to 2M tokens
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
131 Qwen-VL-Max
Alibaba's strongest vision-language model
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
132 Perplexity Sonar
Lightweight, real-time search model for cited answers at low cost
LLMs Paid
133 Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI assistant embedded across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
LLMs, AI Assistants Enterprise
134 Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's everyday AI assistant across web, PC, and mobile
LLMs, AI Assistants, Text → Image Freemium
135 Grok Bot
Persistent AI agents that operate your apps autonomously—$120/month
LLMs, Agentic Browsers Paid
136 HTC Vive Eagle
$499 AI-powered smart glasses with Gemini or ChatGPT built in
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Paid
137 Microsoft MAI Models (Build 2026)
Microsoft's unified AI model family from Build 2026
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, Text → Audio, Text → Image, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Enterprise
138 Fugu Max
Sakana's cost-optimized orchestrator, routing one request across a pool of other models
LLMs, Multi-Service Platforms Paid
139 Liquid LFM2.5-24B-A2B
A 24B open-weight reasoning model that runs only 2B per token, built for fast local agents
LLMs Freemium
140 Atria Dawn Preview
Open-weight 744B agentic model for long-horizon research, built on the GLM-5.2 foundation
LLMs Free
141 Snowflake AI Gateway
Intelligent routing to optimal models for 3x cost savings on inference
LLMs, Multi-Service Platforms Paid
142 Alibaba Laptop-Ready Model
7B quantized model for offline laptop deployment, competes with Meta on-device push
LLMs Free
143 Google Gemma
Lightweight models with 1B+ downloads and thriving 100K+ derivative ecosystem
LLMs Free
144 Grok 4.7
SpaceX's reasoning model, competitive with frontier LLMs
LLMs Freemium
145 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nvidia's open vision-language model for agents, with open weights, data and recipes
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning Free
146 Meta Muse Glimmer
30B on-device AI agent, runs natively on consumer hardware
LLMs, AI Assistants Free
147 Reflection Beam
A 501B open-weight coding and agent model from a US lab, under Apache 2.0
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
148 Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic's most advanced reasoning model for complex multi-step tasks
LLMs Paid
149 Laguna S 2.1
118B MoE model beats rivals 10x its size on coding benchmarks
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Free
150 Baidu ERNIE 4.5
Open-source MoE LLM with strong Chinese NLP and multimodal capabilities
LLMs Freemium
151 GLM-4.5
Advanced multilingual LLM with enhanced reasoning and long-context support
LLMs Freemium
152 Manus AI
Autonomous AI agent for complex multi-step workflows and research automation
LLMs Enterprise
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