Best AI Models for Coding
26 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 | Laguna M.1 (free)poolside | 💻 Code | — | $0.20 / $0.40 | 262K | 548.5K | — | 5mo |
| 3 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)qwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.30 / $1.00 | 1.0M | 54.1K | — | 15mo |
| 4 | Kimi K2.7 Codemoonshotaiopen | 💻 Code | — | $0.67 / $3.35 | 262K | 107.8K | 1 | 4mo |
| 5 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5kwaipilot | 💻 Code | — | $0.15 / $0.60 | 256K | — | — | 3mo |
| 6 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2kwaipilot | 💻 Code | — | $0.30 / $1.20 | 256K | — | — | 6mo |
| 7 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instructqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.0700 / $0.28 | 160K | 576.8K | — | 14mo |
| 8 | GPT-5 Codexopenai | 💻 Code | — | $1.25 / $10.00 | 400K | — | — | 13mo |
| 9 | GPT-5.1-Codex-Maxopenai | 💻 Code | — | $1.25 / $10.00 | 400K | — | — | 11mo |
| 10 | Qwen3 Coder Plusqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.65 / $3.25 | 1.0M | — | — | 13mo |
| 11 | Laguna XS 2.1 (free)poolside | 💻 Code | — | $0.0600 / $0.12 | 262K | 461.4K | — | 3mo |
| 12 | North Mini Code (free)cohereopen | 💻 Code | — | — / — | 256K | 7.3K | — | 4mo |
| 13 | Laguna S 2.1poolside | 💻 Code | — | $0.0900 / $0.18 | 1.0M | 385.9K | 1 | 3mo |
| 14 | GPT-5.3-Codexopenai | 💻 Code | — | $1.75 / $14.00 | 400K | — | 1 | 8mo |
| 15 | Qwen3 Coder Flashqwen | 💻 Code | — | $0.20 / $0.97 | 1.0M | — | — | 13mo |
| 16 | Codestral 2508mistralai | 💻 Code | — | $0.30 / $0.90 | 256K | — | — | 14mo |
| 17 | Coder Largearcee-ai | 💻 Code | — | $0.50 / $0.80 | 33K | — | — | 17mo |
| 18 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5kwaipilot | 💻 Code | — | $0.74 / $2.96 | 256K | — | — | 3mo |
| 19 | GPT-5.2-Codexopenai | 💻 Code | — | $1.75 / $14.00 | 400K | — | 1 | 10mo |
| 20 | GPT-5.1-Codex-Miniopenai | 💻 Code | — | $0.25 / $2.00 | 400K | — | — | 11mo |
| 21 | GPT-5.1-Codexopenai | 💻 Code | — | $1.25 / $10.00 | 400K | — | — | 11mo |
| 22 | Pareto Code Routeropenrouter | 💻 Code | — | — / — | 2.0M | — | 1 | 6mo |
| 23 | Seed-2.0-Codebytedance-seed | 💻 Code | — | $0.50 / $3.00 | 262K | — | — | 2mo |
| 24 | Devstral 2 2512mistralai | 💻 Code | — | $0.40 / $2.00 | 262K | 5.5K | — | 10mo |
| 25 | Laguna XS.2 (free)poolside | 💻 Code | — | $0.10 / $0.20 | 262K | 545.1K | — | 5mo |
| 26 | 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.