Best Coding AI Models 2026

A definitive ranking of the top coding LLMs and AI models optimized for your specific use cases.

Model	Intelligence	MMLU Pro	Context	GPQA	TTFT (s)	Speed (T/s)	Input Price (1M)	Output Price (1M)
OpenAI: GPT-5.4New OpenAI	56.8	-	1050K	92.0%	173.92	91	$2.50	$15.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.3-CodexNew OpenAI	53.6	-	400K	91.5%	82.74	83	$1.75	$14.00
Z.ai: GLM 5New Z AI	49.8	-	203K	82.0%	0.66	72	$1.00	$3.20
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex OpenAI	49.0	-	400K	89.9%	1.75	113	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex OpenAI	44.6	86.5%	400K	83.7%	9.04	202	$1.25	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6New Anthropic	44.4	-	1000K	79.9%	1.16	58	$3.75	$15.00
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2New KwaiKAT	43.8	-	256K	85.5%	1.62	114	$0.30	$1.20
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex OpenAI	43.1	86.0%	400K	86.0%	4.09	203	$1.25	$10.00
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Z AI	42.1	85.6%	203K	85.9%	0.87	98	$0.60	$2.20
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini OpenAI	38.6	82.0%	400K	81.3%	3.53	203	$0.25	$2.00
KAT-Coder-Pro V1 KwaiKAT	36.0	81.3%	-	76.4%	2.02	99	$0.30	$1.20
Doubao Seed Code ByteDance Seed	33.5	85.4%	-	76.4%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Grok Code Fast 1 xAI	28.7	79.3%	-	72.7%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder NextNew Alibaba	28.3	-	262K	73.7%	0.88	176	$0.35	$1.20
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Alibaba	24.8	78.8%	-	61.8%	1.60	64	$0.30	$1.80
Devstral 2 Mistral	22.0	76.2%	-	59.4%	0.76	68	$0.00	$0.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 OpenAI	21.8	82.0%	400K	68.6%	0.49	180	$1.25	$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Alibaba	20.1	81.9%	262K	73.8%	1.20	145	$0.50	$2.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct Alibaba	20.0	70.6%	160K	51.6%	1.54	94	$0.19	$0.84
Devstral Small 2 Mistral	19.5	67.8%	-	53.2%	0.53	69	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Devstral Medium Mistral	18.7	70.8%	131K	49.2%	0.49	71	$0.40	$2.00
Devstral Small (May '25) Mistral	18.0	63.2%	-	43.4%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 Mistral	15.2	62.2%	131K	41.4%	0.40	193	$0.10	$0.30
Mistral Large 2407 Mistral	13.0	68.3%	131K	47.2%	-	-	$2.00	$6.00
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Alibaba	12.9	63.5%	128K	41.7%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
IBM: Granite 4.1 8BNew IBM	12.4	-	131K	43.3%	0.42	131	$0.05	$0.10
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 DeepSeek	10.6	-	-	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 7B Alibaba	10.0	47.3%	-	33.9%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral Large Mistral	9.9	51.5%	128K	35.1%	-	-	$4.00	$12.00
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo OpenAI	9.0	46.2%	16K	29.7%	0.44	116	$0.50	$1.50
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct DeepSeek	8.5	42.9%	-	31.9%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
AlfredPros: CodeLLaMa 7B Instruct Solidity AlfredPros	-	-	4K	-	-	-	$0.80	$1.20
OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$15.00	$120.00
Morph: Morph V3 Large Morph	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.90	$1.90
Cohere: Command R (08-2024) Cohere	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.60
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) OpenAI	-	-	4K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
OpenAI: GPT Audio OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$2.50	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT Audio Mini OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.60	$2.40
Pareto Code Router openrouter	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$-1000000.00	$-1000000.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Owl Alpha openrouter	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
EssentialAI: Rnj 1 Instruct EssentialAI	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.15
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$10.00	$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash Qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.97
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus Qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.65	$3.25
Relace: Relace Search Relace	-	-	256K	-	-	-	$1.00	$3.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.78
Mistral: Codestral 2508 Mistral	-	-	256K	-	-	-	$0.30	$0.90
Mistral: Devstral 2 2512 Mistral	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.40	$2.00
Z.ai: GLM 4 32B Z.ai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.10
Morph: Morph V3 Fast Morph	-	-	82K	-	-	-	$0.80	$1.20
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Qwen	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.22	$1.80
Relace: Relace Apply 3 Relace	-	-	256K	-	-	-	$0.85	$1.25
Arcee AI: Coder Large Arcee AI	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.50	$0.80
NVIDIA: Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5 NVIDIA	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40