Rankings

Best AI models for coding

Ranked by a 0–100 composite of coding benchmarks (SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench, GSO (code optimization), WebDev Arena), scored as percentile rank against every model released in the past year.

Newest Overall Coding Math Reasoning & Knowledge Agentic & Tools Value

Coding score is a 0–100 percentile composite across that area’s benchmarks. Open a model for the raw scores.

Multimodal200 models

Claude Fable 5.1Sep 1, 2026 · 9 in the newsAnthropic1M$10.00 / $50.0099

Kimi K3Jul 16, 2026 · 43 in the newsMoonshot1M$2.10 / $10.9596

Claude Fable 5Jun 9, 2026 · 52 in the newsAnthropic1M$10.00 / $50.0095

GPT-6 AstraSep 3, 2026 · 21 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$10.00 / $50.0094

Muse Spark 1.3Sep 2, 2026Meta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2593

Claude Opus 5Jul 24, 2026 · 18 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0092

GLM-5.3Aug 14, 2026 · 8 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1.3M$0.95 / $4.4091

Gemini 3.7 FlashAug 13, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7590

Grok 4.6Aug 12, 2026 · 2 in the newsxAI500K$2.00 / $6.0090

GPT-5.6 SolJul 9, 2026 · 24 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$4.40 / $22.0090

Claude Opus 4.8May 28, 2026 · 8 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0084

Gemini 3.8 FlashSep 2, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7583

Qwen 3.8 MaxJul 19, 2026 · 17 in the newsAlibaba1M$2.00 / $6.0083

Claude Opus 4.7Apr 16, 2026 · 4 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0083

Muse Spark 1.1Jul 9, 2026 · 1 in the newsMeta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2581

GLM-5.3-FlashAug 20, 2026 · 5 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1.3M$0.10 / $0.3578

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAug 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsAlibaba1M$2.00 / $6.0078

Muse Spark 1.2Aug 5, 2026 · 1 in the newsMeta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2578

Grok 4.5Jul 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsxAI500K$2.00 / $6.0078

GPT-5.5Apr 23, 2026 · 32 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $30.0076

GLM-5.2Jun 16, 2026 · 27 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1M$0.97 / $3.0474

GPT-5.5 InstantMay 5, 2026OpenAI——73

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813Aug 13, 2026 · 1 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.58 / $1.7472

GPT-5.6 TerraJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.00 / $12.0072

Gemini 3.5 FlashMay 19, 2026 · 4 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$1.50 / $9.0072

Gemini 3.6 FlashJul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7571

Claude Opus 4.6Feb 5, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0071

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Jul 31, 2026 · 3 in the newsDeepSeek1.3M$0.04 / $0.1069

DeepSeek V4.1 FlashSep 9, 2026 · 6 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.15 / $0.6068

GPT-5.6 LunaJul 9, 2026 · 6 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$0.20 / $1.2068

Qwen 3.8 27BAug 14, 2026 · 10 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.42 / $3.0064

Muse SparkApr 8, 2026 · 3 in the newsMeta AI——61

Claude Sonnet 5Jun 30, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$2.00 / $10.0059

GPT-5.4Mar 5, 2026 · 9 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.0059

Qwen 3.7 MaxMay 19, 2026 · 4 in the newsAlibaba1M$1.48 / $4.4258

DeepSeek-V4-ProApr 24, 2026 · 8 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.87 / $1.7458

Qwen3.7-MaxMay 19, 2026Alibaba1M$1.48 / $4.4254

Kimi K2.6Apr 20, 2026 · 12 in the newsMoonshot262K$0.57 / $2.4054

MiMo-V2.5-ProApr 23, 2026Xiaomi Corp1.1M$0.43 / $0.8753

Hy3Jul 6, 2026Tencent262K$0.13 / $0.5352

Solar Open2 250BJun 28, 2026Upstage——51

Claude Sonnet 4.6Feb 17, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$3.00 / $15.0050

GPT-5.4 NanoMar 17, 2026OpenAI400K$0.20 / $1.2549

MiniMax-M3Jun 1, 2026MiniMax1M$0.28 / $1.1048

Kimi K2.7 CodeJun 12, 2026Moonshot262K$0.86 / $3.8047

GPT-5.4 MiniMar 17, 2026OpenAI400K$0.75 / $4.5047

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)Apr 20, 2026 · 2 in the newsAlibaba262K$1.04 / $6.2446

GPT-5.3 CodexFeb 5, 2026 · 4 in the newsOpenAI400K$1.75 / $14.0045

Qwen3.8 27BAug 14, 2026 · 17 in the newsQwen1M$0.42 / $3.0043

Inkling-SmallJul 15, 2026 · 2 in the newsThinking Machines1M$0.50 / $1.2042

Qwen3.7-PlusJun 3, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.32 / $1.2841

Ring-2.6-1TMay 14, 2026Ant Group262K$0.07 / $0.6340

Solar Pro 4Aug 10, 2026Upstage524K$0.03 / $0.1238

InklingJul 15, 2026 · 4 in the newsThinking Machines1M$0.95 / $4.0538

GLM-5.1Apr 7, 2026 · 7 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)205K$1.19 / $3.7438

Gemini 3.1 ProFeb 19, 2026 · 3 in the newsGoogle DeepMind——38

Ling 3.0 Flash VLSep 10, 2026inclusionAI131K$0.06 / $0.1837

MiniMax-M2.7Mar 18, 2026 · 1 in the newsMiniMax205K$0.30 / $1.2037

Grok 4.20Feb 17, 2026xAI2M$1.25 / $2.5037

Step 3.7 FlashMay 29, 2026StepFun262K$0.20 / $1.1536

Nex-N2-ProJun 8, 2026Nex AGI262K$0.25 / $1.0034

Qwen3.6 27BApr 22, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.30 / $2.0033

Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteJul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.30 / $2.5031

MiMo-V2-ProMar 18, 2026Xiaomi Corp——31

Kimi K2.5Feb 2, 2026 · 16 in the newsMoonshot262K$0.60 / $3.0031

GLM-5Feb 12, 2026 · 25 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)205K$0.70 / $2.2430

Ling 3.0 Flash FinAug 27, 2026—262K$0.06 / $0.1829

Motif-3Aug 7, 2026 · 1 in the newsMotif Technologies——28

Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)Feb 16, 2026Alibaba——25

K-EXAONE 2.0Jul 31, 2026LG AI Research——24

Ling-3.0-flashJul 23, 2026 · 1 in the news—262K$0.06 / $0.1824

Qwen3.5-122B-A10BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.26 / $2.0824

Qwen3.5 397B-A17BFeb 15, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.39 / $2.3424

DeepSeek-V4-FlashApr 24, 2026 · 11 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.07 / $0.1723

A.X K2Jul 29, 2026 · 1 in the newsSK Telecom——22

MiniMax-M2.5Feb 12, 2026MiniMax205K$0.27 / $0.9522

Qwen 3.6 PlusApr 1, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.33 / $1.9520

Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteMar 3, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle1M$0.25 / $1.5020

Qwen3.5-Omni-PlusMar 29, 2026Alibaba——18

Gemma 4 31B ITApr 2, 2026Google DeepMind262K$0.12 / $0.3516

Gemma 4 26B A4BApr 2, 2026Google DeepMind——15

Qwen3.5-27BFeb 24, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.20 / $1.5614

Mistral Small 4Mar 16, 2026 · 1 in the newsMistral AI——13

Command A+May 20, 2026 · 6 in the newsCohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI)256K$2.50 / $10.0012

Mistral Medium 3.5Apr 28, 2026 · 3 in the newsMistral AI262K$1.50 / $7.5011

Grok 4.3 BetaApr 17, 2026xAI——11

Trinity Large ThinkingApr 1, 2026Arcee AI262K$0.25 / $0.8011

Qwen3.5-35B-A3BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.14 / $1.0011

LongCat-2.0Jun 29, 2026 · 2 in the newsMeituan Inc1M$0.30 / $1.209

Laguna M.1Apr 28, 2026Poolside——9

Laguna XS.2Apr 28, 2026Poolside——8

Qwen3-Coder-NextFeb 2, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.12 / $0.808

Nemotron 3.5 LightningAug 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA262K$0.07 / $0.207

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3BApr 14, 2026 · 4 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.10 / $0.907

Granite 4.2 8BAug 31, 2026IBM131K$0.06 / $0.255

Granite 4.1 30BApr 29, 2026IBM——3

Qwen3.5-Omni-FlashMar 29, 2026Alibaba——2

Qwen3.5-9BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.10 / $0.152

Qwen3.5-4BFeb 24, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba——1

Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)Feb 25, 2026Alibaba——0

Qwen3.5-2BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba——0

Union AlphaSep 16, 2026—262K——

Schematron V2 TurboSep 12, 2026Inference.net128K$0.03 / $0.15—

Schematron V2 SmallSep 12, 2026Inference.net128K$0.05 / $0.23—

Fugu Ultra v2Sep 11, 2026 · 2 in the newsSakana1M$5.00 / $30.00—

Fugu MaxSep 11, 2026 · 2 in the newsSakana1M$2.00 / $6.00—

GPT-Image-2.5 FlareSep 8, 2026OpenAI———

ChatGPT Images 2.5Sep 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsOpenAI———

GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstSep 8, 2026OpenAI———

Mercury 2.5Sep 8, 2026Inception260K$0.04 / $0.15—

GPT-6 Astra ProSep 4, 2026 · 1 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$10.00 / $50.00—

GPT-6 Astra (batch)Sep 4, 2026OpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $25.00—

GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch)Sep 4, 2026OpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Sep 3, 2026 · 1 in the newsQwen1M$2.00 / $6.00—

OpenEvidence DarwinSep 3, 2026OpenEvidence———

WeatherNext 3Sep 3, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle DeepMind,Google Research———

Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Sep 2, 2026Google1M$0.38 / $1.88—

Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorSep 2, 2026Meta1M$0.10 / $0.20—

Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)Sep 1, 2026Anthropic1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Mercury 2.5 PreviewAug 31, 2026Inception260K$0.04 / $0.15—

Hy4 previewAug 28, 2026Tencent1M$0.83 / $2.50—

Qwen3.8 FlashAug 26, 2026 · 3 in the newsQwen1M$0.15 / $0.47—

GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)Aug 26, 2026Z.ai1M$0.07 / $0.25—

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpAug 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.22 / $0.66—

Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorAug 21, 2026Meta1M$0.10 / $0.20—

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)Aug 21, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.11 / $0.33—

Hy-MT2-1.8BAug 20, 2026Tencent8K$0.04 / $0.18—

Hy-MT2-30B-A3BAug 20, 2026Tencent8K$0.07 / $0.29—

Ox AlphaAug 20, 2026 · 3 in the news—1M——

Hy-MT2-7BAug 19, 2026Tencent8K$0.07 / $0.29—

GEN-1.5Aug 19, 2026 · 2 in the newsGeneralist———

GLM 5.3 (batch)Aug 18, 2026Z.ai1M$0.70 / $2.20—

Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)Aug 13, 2026Google1M$0.19 / $0.94—

Seed 2.1 TurboAug 12, 2026ByteDance Seed262K$0.50 / $2.50—

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (batch)Aug 12, 2026Qwen1M$2.00 / $6.00—

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)Aug 12, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.66 / $1.98—

NamazuAug 11, 2026 · 3 in the newsSakana262K$0.95 / $4.00—

GPT-5.6 CyberAug 11, 2026OpenAI———

Sakana NamazuAug 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsSakana262K$0.95 / $4.00—

Muse Glimmer 30BAug 9, 2026Meta131K$0.30 / $1.10—

Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)Aug 9, 2026Meta131K$0.17 / $0.75—

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)Jul 31, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.11 / $0.33—

Inkling Small (batch)Jul 30, 2026Thinking Machines524K$0.50 / $1.20—

Seed-2.0-CodeJul 30, 2026ByteDance Seed262K$0.50 / $3.00—

Qwen3.7 FlashJul 27, 2026Alibaba1M$0.03 / $0.13—

Claude Opus 5 (batch)Jul 24, 2026—1M$2.50 / $12.50—

Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Jul 21, 2026Google1M$0.38 / $1.88—

Laguna S 2.1Jul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsPoolside1M$0.10 / $0.20—

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Jul 21, 2026Google1M$0.15 / $1.25—

Inkling (batch)Jul 17, 2026Thinking Machines524K$1.00 / $4.05—

Kimi K3 (batch)Jul 16, 2026MoonshotAI1M$3.00 / $15.00—

KAT-Coder-Air V2.5Jul 10, 2026Kwaipilot256K$0.15 / $0.60—

KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5Jul 10, 2026Kwaipilot262K$0.74 / $2.96—

GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$1.00 / $6.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.10 / $0.60—

GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$1.00 / $6.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.10 / $0.60—

GPT-5.6 Terra ProJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.00 / $12.00—

GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna ProJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.20 / $1.20—

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.00—

GPT-5.6 Sol ProJul 9, 2026 · 1 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $30.00—

SWE-1.7Jul 8, 2026Cognition———

Aion-3.0-MiniJul 7, 2026AionLabs131K$0.70 / $1.40—

Aion-3.0Jul 7, 2026AionLabs131K$3.00 / $6.00—

Tencent Hy3Jul 6, 2026Tencent———

Laguna XS 2.1Jul 2, 2026Poolside262K$0.06 / $0.12—

Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Jun 30, 2026Anthropic1M$1.00 / $5.00—

Fugu UltraJun 24, 2026 · 4 in the newsSakana1M$5.00 / $30.00—

Nex-N2-MiniJun 24, 2026Nex AGI262K$0.03 / $0.10—

GLM 5.2 (batch)Jun 16, 2026Z.ai1M$0.70 / $2.20—

Kimi K2.7 Code (batch)Jun 12, 2026MoonshotAI262K$0.95 / $4.00—

Claude Fable 5 (batch)Jun 9, 2026Anthropic1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Claude Mythos 5Jun 9, 2026 · 7 in the newsAnthropic———

Nemotron 3 UltraJun 4, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA———

MAI-Code-1-FlashJun 2, 2026Microsoft———

MAI-Image-2.5Jun 2, 2026Microsoft———

MiniMax M3 (batch)May 31, 2026MiniMax524K$0.30 / $1.20—

Grok Build 0.1May 29, 2026xAI256K$1.00 / $2.00—

Composer 2.5May 18, 2026Cursor———

Perceptron Mk1May 12, 2026Perceptron33K$0.15 / $1.50—

TML-Interaction-SmallMay 11, 2026Thinking Machines———

GPT-5.5 CyberMay 7, 2026OpenAI———

Qwen 3.6 FlashApr 27, 2026Alibaba1M$0.19 / $1.13—

Tencent Hy3 previewApr 23, 2026Tencent———

GPT-5.5 ProApr 23, 2026 · 2 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$30.00 / $180.00—

GPT Image 2Apr 21, 2026 · 3 in the newsOpenAI———

Gemini Flash 3.1 TTSApr 15, 2026Google DeepMind———

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6Apr 14, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle———

GPT-5.4-CyberApr 14, 2026OpenAI———

EXAONE 4.5Apr 9, 2026LG AI Research———

Claude Mythos PreviewApr 7, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic———

MolmoAct 2Apr 5, 2026Allen Institute for AI,University of Washington,National University of Singapore,University of Pennsylvania,Johns Hopkins University,Amazon,Cortex AI———

Composer 2Mar 19, 2026Cursor———

Nemotron 3 SuperMar 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA———

GPT-5.4 ProMar 5, 2026OpenAI1.1M$30.00 / $180.00—

Gemini 3.0 Flash-liteMar 3, 2026Google DeepMind———

SWE 1.6Mar 1, 2026Cognition———

Seedance 2.0Feb 12, 2026 · 5 in the newsByteDance———

GPT-5.3-Codex-SparkFeb 12, 2026OpenAI———

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI model for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) currently ranks first for coding on Model Beat, followed by Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5. Ranked by a 0–100 composite of coding benchmarks (SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench, GSO (code optimization), WebDev Arena), scored as percentile rank against every model released in the past year.

Which is the most affordable strong coding model?

Among the top-ranked coding models, Gemini 3.7 Flash is the cheapest at $0.75 per million input tokens.

How are these coding rankings calculated?

Benchmarks & model data from Epoch AI (CC BY); pricing & specs from OpenRouter. ECI = Epoch Capabilities Index.