76 active models · 60 retired · updated October 20, 2026

Every model, distilled.

Rankings, pricing and the plain-English version of what each model is for. Open any card for strengths, weaknesses, ideal prompts and the full update history.

42 models

Anthropic · September 2026

Claude Opus 5.5

Fable-class capability at Opus prices: the default pick for serious agentic and coding work.

New#1 Overall#1 Coding+11

Overall91.1Price$4 / $20Context1M

Anthropic · August 2026

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic's Mythos-class top tier for the longest, hardest problems where cost is secondary.

#1 Math#1 Calibration

Overall90.8Price$10 / $50Context1M

Google · October 2026

Gemini 4 Argon

Google's multimodal monster: sees, watches and listens better than anything, and writes up to 1M tokens back.

New#1 Coding Q&A#1 Math Chat+9

Overall85.5Price$2 / $10Context1.05M

Google · September 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google DeepMind language model.

Overall75.3Price$0.825 / $4.125Context1.05M

OpenAI · September 2026

GPT-6.1 Sol

The everyday frontier model: elite reasoning, great instructions-following, mid-tier price.

New

Overall74.3Price$2 / $10Context1.05M

Google · August 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google DeepMind language model.

Overall73.7Price$0.75 / $3.75Context1.05M

Meta · September 2026

Muse Spark 1.3

#10

Meta Superintelligence Labs language model.

Overall72.8Price$1.25 / $4.25Context1.05M

Anthropic · September 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5

#12

The workhorse: faster and cheaper than Opus, and it edges ahead on agentic coding.

New#1 Terminal & DevOps

Overall72.3Price$2 / $10Context1M

OpenAI · September 2026

GPT-6 Astra

#13

OpenAI's top tier: operates software like a person and leads the hardest math.

#1 Frontier SWE#1 ARC-AGI-2+1

Overall71.2Price$10 / $50Context1.05M

Qwen · August 2026

Qwen3.8-Max

#14

Alibaba Qwen language model.

#1 Tool Use & Agents#1 Tool Use

Overall69.4Price$2 / $6Context1M

Anthropic · April 2026

Claude Opus 4.7

#15

Anthropic language model.

#1 Debugging & Repair

Overall67.5Price$5 / $25Context1M

Xiaomi · September 2026

MiMo-V2.6-Pro

#16

Xiaomi language model.

NewOpen

Overall67.5Price$0.435 / $0.87Context1.05M

Moonshot · July 2026

Kimi K3

#18

A 2.8-trillion-parameter open model that developers prefer for front-end work.

Open#1 Long Context#1 Long-Document Reasoning

Overall64.5Price$0.239 / $11.936Context1.05M

Meta · August 2026

Muse Spark 1.2

#20

Meta Superintelligence Labs language model.

Overall60.9Price$1.25 / $4.25Context1.05M

DeepSeek · October 2026

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

#21

MIT-licensed speed demon: near-frontier coding for pennies, with built-in search.

NewOpen#1 Speed & Cost#1 Output Speed+1

Overall60.9Price$0.0283 / $0.12Context1.05M

Google · May 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash

#23

Absurdly fast frontier-lite model with a free tier and strong agentic chops.

Overall59.8Price$1.5 / $9Context1.05M

Google · July 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash

#24

Google DeepMind language model.

Overall59.1Price$0.75 / $3.75Context1.05M

Z.ai · August 2026

GLM-5.3

#27

Post-training-only upgrade that turned GLM into a serious open terminal agent.

Open

Overall54.7Price$0.079 / $1.4Context1.05M

Z.ai · August 2026

GLM-5.3-Flash

#29

Z.ai (Zhipu) language model.

Open

Overall53.7Price$0.0471 / $0.12Context1.05M

Anthropic · October 2026

Claude Haiku 5.5

#30

Tiny price, startling computer-use skill: the sub-agent and high-volume specialist.

New

Overall53.2Price$0.1 / $0.5Context1M

DeepSeek · April 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro

#31

Open 1.6T MoE with elite competitive programming at a tenth of closed-model prices.

Open

Overall52.2Price$0.3482 / $0.6963Context1.05M

OpenAI · July 2026

GPT-5.6 Terra

#32

OpenAI language model.

Overall51.6Price$2 / $12Context1.05M

xAI · July 2026

Grok 4.5

#33

xAI language model.

Overall51.2Price$2 / $6Context500K

Qwen · April 2026

Qwen3.6-Max

#34

Alibaba's proprietary flagship, tuned hard for coding agents and science code.

Preview

Overall49.0Price—Context—

Z.ai · June 2026

GLM-5.2

#36

Z.ai (Zhipu) language model.

Open

Overall46.9Price$0.62 / $2.42Context1.05M

Anthropic · June 2026

Claude Sonnet 5

#38

Anthropic language model.

Overall44.4Price$2 / $10Context1M

xAI · September 2026

Grok 4.7

#40

xAI's best coder yet: elite math, live X knowledge, aggressive pricing.

New

Overall42.2Price$2 / $6Context500K

Anthropic · February 2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6

#41

Anthropic language model.

Overall41.8Price$3 / $15Context1M

Xiaomi · September 2026

MiMo-V2.6-Flash

#42

Xiaomi language model.

NewOpen

Overall40.6Price$0.14 / $0.28Context1.05M

OpenAI · September 2026

GPT-6 Luna

#43

The free-tier GPT-6: fast, friendly and cheap enough for anything high-volume.

New

Overall38.5Price$0.1 / $0.5Context1.05M

Mistral · October 2026

Mistral Large 4

#44

Europe's trillion-parameter answer: 160+ languages, weights promised to developers.

NewPreviewOpen

Overall38.1Price$1.36 / $4.18Context1.05M

Moonshot · April 2026

Kimi K2.6

#46

Moonshot AI language model.

Open

Overall37.3Price$0.65 / $3.41Context262K

MiniMax · June 2026

MiniMax-M3

#48

MiniMax language model.

Open

Overall31.5Price$0.3 / $1.2Context1.05M

Meta · October 2026

Muse Wonder

Meta's first true frontier model, with six reasoning levels and a memory system.

New

Overall—Price$4 / $20Context1.05M

Meta · October 2026

Muse Spark Open

The most capable US open-weights model: multimodal in, 1M context, runs on your own hardware.

NewOpen

Overall—Price$1.25 / $4.25Context1.05M

OpenAI · September 2026

GPT-6.1 Sol Pro

OpenAI language model.

New

Overall—Price$2 / $10Context1.05M

OpenAI · September 2026

GPT-6 Luna Pro

OpenAI language model.

New

Overall—Price$0.1 / $0.5Context1.05M

Meta · October 2026

Muse Wonder Full

Meta Superintelligence Labs language model.

New

Overall—Price—Context—

Qwen · September 2026

Qwen3.8-Max Prime

Alibaba Qwen language model.

New

Overall—Price$4 / $12Context1M

Qwen · August 2026

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Alibaba Qwen language model.

Overall—Price—Context—

Tencent · August 2026

Hy4 preview

Tencent language model (preview).

PreviewOpen

Overall—Price$0.7506 / $2.2509Context1.05M

Z.ai · September 2026

GLM-5.3 Prime

Z.ai (Zhipu) language model.

New

Overall—Price$2.8 / $8.8Context1M