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.
All uses💬 Chat 365🖼️ Image 63💻 Code 26🎬 Video 25🔍 Search 25🧮 Reasoning 19👁️ Vision 14🎙️ Audio 4🛡️ Safety 2
All orgsopenai 91qwen 54google 51anthropic 31mistralai 21deepseek 19z-ai 18xai 13nvidia 12meta-llama 10minimax 10meta 9
🏆 Best right now
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)
meta-llama · Elo 1274
💸 Best value
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
meta-llama · Elo 1055 at $0.0270/M
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)meta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1274 | $0.10 / $0.32 | 131K | 233.9K | — | 22mo |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 70B Instructmeta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1261 | $0.40 / $0.40 | 131K | 88.4K | — | 27mo |
| 3 | Llama 3.1 8B Instructmeta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1187 | $0.0500 / $0.0800 | 131K | 5.4M | 1 | 27mo |
| 4 | Llama 3 8B Instructmeta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1166 | $0.14 / $0.14 | 8K | 451.7K | — | 30mo |
| 5 | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)meta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1110 | $0.0509 / $0.34 | 131K | 1.1M | — | 25mo |
| 6 | Llama 3.2 1B Instructmeta-llama | 💬 Chat | 1055 | $0.0270 / $0.20 | 131K | 4.9M | 1 | 25mo |
| 7 | Llama 4 Scoutmeta-llamaopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.10 / $0.30 | 10.0M | 155.9K | — | 18mo |
| 8 | Llama 4 Maverickmeta-llamaopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.19 / $0.65 | 1.0M | 9.9K | 1 | 18mo |
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.