Tell us the job. We’ll pick three.
Best overall, best on a budget and best regardless of price, with what each costs at your volume. No signup needed.
- Scores 55 on overall, #3 of 10 models we track for this job.
- $0.43 per 1,000 replies.
- Also the cheapest model that passes our test for this job.
- Scores 65 on overall, the highest of 10 models we track for this job.
- $10.50 per 1,000 replies: the extra $10.08 per 1,000 buys 10 more points.
- Open weights: you can run it on your own servers.
Also considered: GLM-5.3 (match 76, $3.86 per 1,000), DeepSeek V4 Pro (match 73, $3.56 per 1,000), MiniMax-M3 (match 66, $0.93 per 1,000), Gemma 4 31B IT (match 66, $0.46 per 1,000). 10 models were in the running.
How we pick
The ranking is a published formula, never a person’s choice and never paid for. We filter by the job, your budget and any hard needs such as open weights, then weigh quality and price by what you said matters most. Best overall is the top of that list. Best budget is the cheapest model that passes our test for the job. Best premium is the highest quality, whatever it costs.
Scores are provisional: they come from Arena and Epoch AI benchmarks until our own test rig runs. Prices are list prices, checked against OpenRouter where we can. Speed is not scored yet. See the methodology.