Best AI Models for Coding
6 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
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instructqwen | 💻 Code | 1230 | $0.66 / $1.00 | 128K | 642.8K | — | 23mo |
| 2 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)qwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.30 / $1.00 | 1.0M | 54.1K | — | 15mo |
| 3 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instructqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.0700 / $0.28 | 160K | 576.8K | — | 14mo |
| 4 | Qwen3 Coder Plusqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.65 / $3.25 | 1.0M | — | — | 13mo |
| 5 | Qwen3 Coder Flashqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.20 / $0.97 | 1.0M | — | — | 13mo |
| 6 | Qwen3 Coder Nextqwenopen | 💻 Code | — | $0.12 / $0.80 | 262K | 521.3K | — | 8mo |
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.