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Best AI Chat Models

8 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.

#ModelUseArena EloIn / Out $/MContextHF DLs7d NewsReleased
1Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)meta-llama💬 Chat1275$0.10 / $0.32131K296.7K20mo
2Llama 3.1 70B Instructmeta-llama💬 Chat1261$0.40 / $0.40131K683.4K25mo
3Llama 3.1 8B Instructmeta-llama💬 Chat1187$0.0500 / $0.0800131K6.5M125mo
4Llama 3 8B Instructmeta-llama💬 Chat1166$0.14 / $0.148K1.8M28mo
5Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)meta-llama💬 Chat1110$0.0500 / $0.33131K1.1M23mo
6Llama 3.2 1B Instructmeta-llama💬 Chat1055$0.0270 / $0.20131K7.6M23mo
7Llama 4 Scoutmeta-llamaopen💬 Chat$0.10 / $0.3010.0M349.9K16mo
8Llama 4 Maverickmeta-llamaopen💬 Chat$0.20 / $0.801.0M12.5K116mo

Elo: LMArena per-category arenas (CC-BY) — image/video/search models are ranked by their own arena, not text. Pricing: OpenRouter/LiteLLM. Use-case labels are auto-classified — suggest fixes on any model page. Methodology.