Best AI Chat Models
19 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.
All uses💬 Chat 366🖼️ 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
Mistral Large 4
mistralai · Elo 1431
💸 Best value
Mistral Small 3
mistralai · Elo 1234 at $0.0500/M
🔓 Open-weight pick
Mistral Medium 3.5
mistralai · Elo 1421
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral Large 4mistralai | 💬 Chat | 1431 | $1.36 / $4.18 | 524K | — | 2 | 16d |
| 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5mistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | 1421 | $1.50 / $7.50 | 262K | — | — | 5mo |
| 3 | Mistral Large 2407mistralai | 💬 Chat | 1266 | $2.00 / $6.00 | 131K | — | — | 23mo |
| 4 | Mistral Small 3mistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | 1234 | $0.0500 / $0.0800 | 33K | 72.8K | 1 | 21mo |
| 5 | Ministral 3 3B 2512mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.10 / $0.10 | 131K | 98.5K | — | 10mo |
| 6 | Mistral Medium 3.1mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.40 / $2.00 | 131K | — | — | 14mo |
| 7 | Voxtral Small 24B 2507mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.10 / $0.30 | 32K | 20.2K | — | 11mo |
| 8 | Mistral Largemistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $2.00 / $6.00 | 128K | — | 2 | 32mo |
| 9 | Sabamistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.20 / $0.60 | 33K | — | — | 20mo |
| 10 | Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.50 / $1.50 | 262K | — | — | 10mo |
| 11 | Mixtral 8x22B Instructmistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $2.00 / $6.00 | 66K | 47K | — | 30mo |
| 12 | Mistral Small 3.2 24Bmistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.0938 / $0.25 | 128K | 200.1K | — | 16mo |
| 13 | Mistral Medium 3mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.40 / $2.00 | 131K | — | — | 17mo |
| 14 | Mistral Nemomistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.0290 / $0.0300 | 131K | 208.3K | — | 27mo |
| 15 | Mistral Small 4mistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.15 / $0.60 | 262K | 70.7K | 2 | 7mo |
| 16 | Ministral 8Bmistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.11 / $0.11 | 128K | — | 1 | 24mo |
| 17 | Mistral Small 3.1 24Bmistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.35 / $0.56 | 128K | 273.8K | — | 19mo |
| 18 | Ministral 3 14B 2512mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.20 / $0.20 | 262K | 124.9K | — | 10mo |
| 19 | Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai | 💬 Chat | — | $0.15 / $0.15 | 262K | 119.3K | — | 10mo |
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.