MakerReflection AI
ReleasedOctober 16, 2026
API price (per 1M tokens)Not published
Open weightsYes
Best for
- Teams that want a US-made model under Apache 2.0
- Fine-tuning and research (post-training recipes are published)
- Self-hosting on data-centre hardware
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 license
- Second among US open-weight models on the Artificial Analysis index, behind Muse Spark Open
- Token-efficient: about 26K output tokens per Artificial Analysis index task
Watch out for
- Scores 30 on the Artificial Analysis index, well behind GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- No public API yet, so you have to host it yourself
- Reflection's own coding scores haven't been reproduced independently
Ranking history
| Edition | Power Rankings | Coding | Best Value | Open-Weight Watch | Image Generation | Video Generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 45, 2026 | — | — | — | #6 (79) | — | — |
| Week 44, 2026 | — | — | — | #5 (80) | — | — |