AI Model Power Rankings

Still #1 on Arena WebDev and still the model to beat on hard coding work. Argon has the text board, but you can't buy Argon.

Its second week confirms the debut: top four on WebDev at half Opus 5.5's price. Watch your bills, though, because Artificial Analysis found it unusually token-hungry.

Still #1 with Arena text voters, and still unavailable outside Google's security partners. It moves up the day Google opens the API.

#5 in Arena's agent rankings and the default in Codex. OpenAI's best value case near the frontier.

Still superb on the hardest problems. Anthropic's own cheaper models now match it on most work.

Still #2 on WebDev, but with 6.1 shelved, OpenAI's own $2 Sol is the one it's pushing.

A text top-10 model at Flash prices. Its price doubles on January 1, and Haiku 5.5 now undercuts it.

Scores 43 on the Artificial Analysis index at max effort, at $0.10 / $0.50. The small-model story of the month.

Pleasant to talk to, but slipping as the 5.5 and 6.1 releases pile up above it.

Still the strongest model from outside the US frontier labs. A quiet week.

Still the best-proven open-weight model. Mistral Large 4's weights, due by the end of October, are its next real challenge.

No new model from xAI, and the field keeps moving up around it.

Still #1 on Arena WebDev, ahead of GPT-6 Astra. The default pick for open-ended coding.

Third on WebDev and ahead of Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 by Anthropic's numbers. The pick for well-scoped fixes at half the price.

The default in Codex. Most of Astra's coding for a fifth of the price.

#2 on WebDev and #1 on Image-to-WebDev. Still strong when the job means driving a terminal for hours.

#2 on Image-to-WebDev. Excellent code, but two cheaper Anthropic models do most jobs as well.

Google's own table puts it behind Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, and it sits outside the WebDev top five. Coding isn't where it wins.

Still a popular pick for cheap coding agents.

The open-weight coding pick, level with MiMo-V2.6-Pro on WebDev.

Anthropic says 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Independent runs land nearer 33–35%, which is still plenty for cheap sub-agents.

$0.10 / $0.50 under 100K tokens, and Artificial Analysis ranks it second of 182 models in its price class. Mind the 5x jump above 100K.

Top-10 text quality at Flash prices until January. Then it doubles.

Near-Astra coding at $2 / $10, with cached input at $0.10.

Near-Opus coding at $2 / $10, but its heavy token use eats into the savings.

Same $0.10 / $0.50 as Haiku 5.5, but the independent evidence favours Anthropic's model. Its new Decisions API is worth a look for extraction jobs.

Strong conversation at $1.25 / $4.25.

$0.15 / $0.47 with good multilingual skills. Qwen 4 is still 'very soon'.

Very fast diffusion text generation at $0.20 / $0.75.

Still the strongest open-weight model on the most evidence. Read its custom license before you build on it.

Level with GLM-5.3 on Arena, on fewer votes. Mistral Large 4's weights later this month are the next test for both.

Apache 2.0 and small enough for real-world hardware.

Still leads the text-to-image board, and Nano Banana 2.1 didn't close the gap.

Microsoft's in-house model stays just ahead of Google's new release.

Debuts at #5 on text-to-image and #4 for multi-image editing, at about half Nano Banana 2's price. The best pick for editing in chat.

Pushed down a place by Google's newcomer. Still the indie favourite for aesthetics.

Still top-tier on its low setting.

Powers the CapCut/Dreamina creator ecosystem.

Google still holds the top two text-to-video spots with Omni Flash and its 1.1 update.

The safest all-rounder, with native audio and 4K.

Holds #3, still on a small vote count.

The value king at about 11–14 cents per second, plus storyboard mode.

Top five in agent mode. Fast and fun.

Near the top of Artificial Analysis's video board. Still the best realistic human motion for creators.

Leads Artificial Analysis's text-to-video board, even though Arena voters rank it lower. Still the tinkerer's pick.

Professionals still choose it for camera control.