Best AI Chat Models
9 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
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | $0.60 / $2.40 | 1.0M | 1M | 1 | 4mo |
| 2 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)nvidiaopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.0600 / $0.24 | 256K | 1.2M | — | 10mo |
| 3 | Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | — / — | 128K | 244.7K | — | 13mo |
| 4 | Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free)nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | $0.20 / $0.20 | 128K | 29.3K | — | 4mo |
| 5 | Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | $0.40 / $0.40 | 131K | 120.4K | — | 12mo |
| 6 | Nemotron 3 Super (free)nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | $0.30 / $2.40 | 1.0M | 62.3K | — | 7mo |
| 7 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightningnvidiaopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.0700 / $0.20 | 262K | 695.2K | 1 | 2mo |
| 8 | Switchyardnvidia | 💬 Chat | — | — / — | 1.0M | — | — | 29d |
| 9 | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)nvidia | 💬 Chat | — | — / — | 256K | 249.3K | — | 5mo |
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.