Best AI Chat Models
31 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.
All uses💬 Chat 285🖼️ Image 54💻 Code 26🎬 Video 22🧮 Reasoning 19🔍 Search 19👁️ Vision 12🎙️ Audio 4🛡️ Safety 2
All orgsopenai 74qwen 50google 47anthropic 24mistralai 20deepseek 15z-ai 14nvidia 10xai 10meta-llama 10minimax 9moonshotai 8
🏆 Best right now
Qwen3.8 Max
qwen · Elo 1482
💸 Best value
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
qwen · Elo 1384 at $0.0481/M
🔓 Open-weight pick
Qwen3.8 27B
qwen · Elo 1441
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3.8 Maxqwen | 💬 Chat | 1482 | $2.00 / $6.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 1mo |
| 2 | Qwen3.7 Plusqwen | 💬 Chat | 1456 | $0.32 / $1.28 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 2mo |
| 3 | Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen | 💬 Chat | 1446 | $1.03 / $6.16 | 262K | — | — | 3mo |
| 4 | Qwen3.8 27Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1441 | $0.40 / $3.00 | 262K | 2.4M | 2 | 10d |
| 5 | Qwen3.5 397B A17Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1438 | $0.50 / $3.60 | 256K | 234.8K | — | 6mo |
| 6 | Qwen3.6 Plusqwen | 💬 Chat | 1437 | $0.33 / $1.95 | 1.0M | — | — | 4mo |
| 7 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507qwen | 💬 Chat | 1419 | $0.0900 / $0.55 | 262K | 43.8K | — | 13mo |
| 8 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)qwen | 💬 Chat | 1419 | $0.10 / $1.10 | 262K | 268.1K | — | 11mo |
| 9 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1418 | $0.26 / $2.08 | 262K | 1.7M | 1 | 6mo |
| 10 | Qwen3.5-27Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1408 | $0.20 / $1.56 | 262K | 2.7M | 3 | 6mo |
| 11 | Qwen3.5-Flashqwen | 💬 Chat | 1398 | $0.0650 / $0.26 | 1.0M | — | — | 6mo |
| 12 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1396 | $0.25 / $1.25 | 262K | 2.5M | 1 | 6mo |
| 13 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507qwen | 💬 Chat | 1384 | $0.0481 / $0.19 | 131K | 1.7M | — | 13mo |
| 14 | Qwen3 235B A22Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1366 | $0.46 / $1.82 | 131K | 452.3K | — | 16mo |
| 15 | Qwen3 32Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1340 | $0.0800 / $0.28 | 131K | 3.6M | — | 16mo |
| 16 | Qwen3 30B A3Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1317 | $0.12 / $0.50 | 131K | 2.6M | — | 16mo |
| 17 | Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen | 💬 Chat | 1269 | $0.36 / $0.40 | 131K | 376.5K | — | 23mo |
| 18 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15qwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.26 / $1.56 | 1.0M | — | — | 6mo |
| 19 | Qwen3.7 Flashqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.0300 / $0.13 | 1.0M | — | — | 28d |
| 20 | Qwen3.6 Flashqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.19 / $1.13 | 1.0M | — | — | 3mo |
| 21 | Qwen3.6 35B A3Bqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.14 / $1.00 | 262K | 5.4M | — | 3mo |
| 22 | Qwen-Plusqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.26 / $0.78 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 31mo |
| 23 | Qwen2.5 7B Instructqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.10 / $0.20 | 131K | 11.6M | — | 22mo |
| 24 | Qwen3 8Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.12 / $0.46 | 131K | 15.1M | 1 | 16mo |
| 25 | Qwen3 Maxqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.78 / $3.90 | 262K | — | — | 11mo |
| 26 | Qwen3.6 27Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.32 / $3.20 | 262K | 6.3M | 1 | 4mo |
| 27 | Qwen3.5-9Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.10 / $0.15 | 262K | 13.6M | 2 | 6mo |
| 28 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20qwen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.30 / $1.80 | 1.0M | — | — | 3mo |
| 29 | Qwen3.8 2.4T A95Bqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $2.00 / $6.00 | 1.0M | 18.1K | — | 12d |
| 30 | Qwen3.7 Maxqwen | 💬 Chat | — | $1.48 / $4.42 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 3mo |
| 31 | Qwen3 14Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | — | $0.12 / $0.24 | 132K | 2M | 1 | 16mo |
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.