Best AI Chat Models
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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
Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic · Elo 1497
💸 Best value
GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai · Elo 1471 at $0.0146/M
🔓 Open-weight pick
Kimi K3
moonshotai · Elo 1473
| # | Model | Use | Arena Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.6anthropic | 💬 Chat | 1497 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1.0M | — | 2 | 8mo |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5anthropic | 💬 Chat | 1493 | $10.00 / $50.00 | 1.0M | — | 4 | 4mo |
| 3 | MiMo-V2.6-Proxiaomi | 💬 Chat | 1491 | $0.43 / $0.87 | 1.0M | — | 2 | 1mo |
| 4 | Qwen3.8 Maxqwen | 💬 Chat | 1483 | $2.00 / $6.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 3mo |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.7anthropic | 💬 Chat | 1483 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 6mo |
| 6 | Gemini 3.5 Flashgoogle | 💬 Chat | 1482 | $1.50 / $9.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 5mo |
| 7 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle | 💬 Chat | 1480 | $2.00 / $12.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 8mo |
| 8 | Gemini 3.6 Flashgoogle | 💬 Chat | 1479 | $0.75 / $3.75 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 3mo |
| 9 | Kimi K3moonshotaiopen | 💬 Chat | 1473 | $0.24 / $11.94 | 1.0M | — | 4 | 3mo |
| 10 | GLM 5.3 Flashz-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1471 | $0.0146 / $0.14 | 1.3M | 6.5M | 2 | 2mo |
| 11 | GPT-5.5openai | 💬 Chat | 1467 | $5.00 / $30.00 | 1.1M | — | 7 | 6mo |
| 12 | MiMo-V2.5-Proxiaomiopen | 💬 Chat | 1464 | $0.30 / $0.61 | 1.0M | 15.8K | — | 6mo |
| 13 | GLM 5.1z-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1463 | $1.40 / $4.40 | 203K | 578.3K | 1 | 6mo |
| 14 | Gemini 2.5 Progoogle | 💬 Chat | 1458 | $1.25 / $10.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 16mo |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic | 💬 Chat | 1458 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 8mo |
| 16 | Kimi K2.6moonshotaiopen | 💬 Chat | 1456 | $0.65 / $3.41 | 262K | 360K | 1 | 6mo |
| 17 | Qwen3.7 Plusqwen | 💬 Chat | 1455 | $0.32 / $1.28 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 4mo |
| 18 | Claude Opus 4.8anthropic | 💬 Chat | 1454 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1.0M | — | 2 | 4mo |
| 19 | MiMo-V2.6-Flashxiaomi | 💬 Chat | 1453 | $0.14 / $0.28 | 1.0M | — | — | 1mo |
| 20 | GPT-5.4openai | 💬 Chat | 1452 | $2.50 / $15.00 | 1.1M | — | 5 | 7mo |
| 21 | DeepSeek V4 Prodeepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1451 | $0.96 / $1.91 | 1.0M | 358K | 1 | 6mo |
| 22 | Grok 4.5x-ai | 💬 Chat | 1448 | $2.00 / $6.00 | 500K | — | 2 | 3mo |
| 23 | Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen | 💬 Chat | 1447 | $1.03 / $6.16 | 262K | — | — | 5mo |
| 24 | GLM 5z-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1446 | $1.00 / $3.20 | 203K | 946.3K | 3 | 8mo |
| 25 | Step 5 Previewstepfun | 💬 Chat | 1440 | $1.00 / $2.70 | 1.0M | — | 2 | 1mo |
| 26 | GLM 4.6z-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1440 | $0.55 / $2.20 | 203K | 20.8K | — | 12mo |
| 27 | Qwen3.8 27Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1440 | $0.0400 / $1.35 | 262K | 7.7M | 1 | 2mo |
| 28 | Hy3 (free)tencent | 💬 Chat | 1438 | $0.13 / $0.53 | 262K | 769.4K | — | 3mo |
| 29 | Qwen3.5 397B A17Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1438 | $0.50 / $3.60 | 256K | 628.9K | — | 8mo |
| 30 | GLM 5V Turboz-ai | 💬 Chat | 1437 | $1.20 / $4.00 | 203K | — | — | 6mo |
| 31 | Qwen3.6 Plusqwen | 💬 Chat | 1436 | $0.33 / $1.95 | 1.0M | — | — | 6mo |
| 32 | GLM 4.7z-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1435 | $0.54 / $1.98 | 203K | 83.8K | 1 | 10mo |
| 33 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litegoogle | 💬 Chat | 1435 | $0.30 / $2.50 | 1.0M | — | — | 3mo |
| 34 | MiniMax M3minimaxopen | 💬 Chat | 1433 | $0.30 / $1.20 | 1.0M | 208.8K | 4 | 4mo |
| 35 | DeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1432 | $0.0910 / $0.18 | 1.0M | 807.7K | 5 | 6mo |
| 36 | Mistral Large 4mistralai | 💬 Chat | 1431 | $1.36 / $4.18 | 524K | — | 2 | 15d |
| 37 | GLM 4.5z-aiopen | 💬 Chat | 1430 | $0.60 / $2.20 | 131K | 119.2K | — | 15mo |
| 38 | MiMo-V2.5xiaomi | 💬 Chat | 1428 | $0.12 / $0.24 | 1.0M | 151.3K | 1 | 6mo |
| 39 | Beam 1.0 501B A23Breflection | 💬 Chat | 1425 | $0.30 / $1.00 | 1.0M | 3.6K | — | 5d |
| 40 | DeepSeek V3.2deepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1425 | $0.28 / $0.42 | 131K | 5.5M | 1 | 10mo |
| 41 | GPT-5.1openai | 💬 Chat | 1422 | $1.25 / $10.00 | 400K | — | 2 | 11mo |
| 42 | DeepSeek V3.2 Expdeepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1422 | $0.27 / $0.41 | 164K | 45.2K | — | 12mo |
| 43 | Mistral Medium 3.5mistralaiopen | 💬 Chat | 1421 | $1.50 / $7.50 | 262K | — | — | 5mo |
| 44 | DeepSeek V3.1deepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1420 | $0.25 / $0.95 | 164K | 331.9K | 1 | 14mo |
| 45 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507qwen | 💬 Chat | 1419 | $0.0900 / $0.55 | 262K | 152.4K | — | 15mo |
| 46 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10Bqwenopen | 💬 Chat | 1418 | $0.40 / $3.20 | 262K | 721.8K | 1 | 8mo |
| 47 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminusdeepseekopen | 💬 Chat | 1417 | $0.27 / $1.00 | 164K | 15.1K | — | 13mo |
| 48 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)qwen | 💬 Chat | 1417 | $0.0900 / $1.10 | 262K | 170.7K | — | 13mo |
| 49 | Gemini 2.5 Flashgoogle | 💬 Chat | 1417 | $0.30 / $2.50 | 1.0M | — | 1 | 18mo |
| 50 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewgoogle | 💬 Chat | 1416 | $0.25 / $1.50 | 1.0M | — | — | 7mo |
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