89 foundation models reviewed by our six-persona AI panel — benchmarks, real token pricing, context windows, and the verdicts vendors won't give you.
89 of 89 models
Best for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work
Best for long-horizon agent work where Opus 5 falls short
Best for hardest long-horizon work money can buy
Best for default frontier model for agentic work
Best for hardest reasoning, math and long-running agent work
Best for near-Astra agentic work at a fifth of the price
Best for Opus-class agentic coding and knowledge work at $2/$10
Best for production agentic coding workhorse
Best for agentic coding at the frontier
Best for best price-to-capability in the OpenAI lineup
Best for low-cost agentic coding with a no-reasoning option
Best for near-Opus agentic coding and computer use at $2/$10
Best for best value production workhorse
Best for open-weights frontier coding agents
Best for flagship agentic coding below GPT-5.5 prices
Best for high-volume reasoning at GPT-6's lowest price
Best for long-horizon coding and agent workhorse
Best for frontier-adjacent quality at the lowest cost in market
Best for open-weights long-horizon coding and security agents
Best for default production workhorse
Best for frontier agentic coding and computer use
Best for high-volume reasoning worker at nano-tier price
Best for frontier reasoning + long-context on Google Cloud
Best for prior frontier, stable production target
Best for agentic coding and vision agents at Flash-tier cost
Best for low-cost multimodal coding and computer-use agents
Best for open-weight frontier agent for long-horizon coding and office work
Best for frontier-grade agentic coding at open-weights cost
Best for GPT-5.5-class results at a mid-tier price
Best for production agent + coding backbone
Best for open-weights long-horizon coding and research agents
Best for best price-to-capability open multimodal model
Best for self-hostable 1M-context reasoning
Best for frontier-adjacent reasoning at open-weight prices
Best for strongest Apache-2.0 model that fits one GPU
Best for high-volume low-latency worker
Best for open-weight agentic coding at sub-frontier price
Best for canonical self-hosted code model
Best for best single-GPU open-weight model in production
Best for lowest-price 1M-context coding and office agents
Best for high-volume subagents and document parsing
Best for 1M-context multimodal agent flagship
Best for open-weights math/reasoning at GA stability
Best for cheapest viable frontier-family worker tier
Best for frontier-class coding and knowledge-work agents at mid-tier prices
Best for the Opus price reset, stable target
Best for exposed-CoT reasoning at a fraction of o-series cost
Best for low-cost multimodal coding agents
Best for EU-sovereign open-weight frontier generalist
Best for best small open model for on-device reasoning
Best for local agents on a single 24 GB GPU
Best for best open-weight VLM for document AI
Best for best $/intelligence in Google's lineup
Best for fast open sub-agent for high-volume execution
Best for best open-weight model in the 13-15B band
Best for the model that put DeepSeek on the production-agent map
Best for frontier deep-research and hardest reasoning
Best for cheapest GA model with 1M context
Best for real-time research and agentic work at frontier-class value
Best for budget long-horizon coding agents
Best for self-hosted multimodal workhorse with no vendor lock-in
Best for cheap multilingual multimodal chat at volume
Best for low-latency code completion and FIM
Best for cost-effective long-context Pro
Best for stable legacy workhorse
Best for single-GPU long-context open-weights deploy
Best for fast multilingual edge model with vision
Best for mature multilingual open-weight workhorse
Best for sovereign self-hosted enterprise agents
Best for budget open-weight agentic coding
Best for on-device and high-volume open-weights workhorse
Best for operationally-mature text-only open default
Best for frontier reasoning for consumers; builders via API preview
Best for open-weights OCR and document understanding at the edge
Best for auditable multilingual reasoning
Best for mature Apache-2.0 single-GPU workhorse
Best for on-device AI with native vision
Best for single-call parallel deep research with live X data
Best for runtime reasoning toggle with long context and live X data
Best for open-weight always-on reasoning at 32B
Best for escalation tier for in-flight GPT-5.4 stacks
Best for mature mid-tier with thinking toggle
Best for cheap plan-mode coding agent with parallel sub-agents
Best for 70B base checkpoint for continued pretraining
Best for legacy flagship on a migration path
Best for OpenAI cost floor for plumbing-grade work
Best for largest open base for from-scratch fine-tuning
Best for superseded legacy mini, migrate to GPT-5.4 nano
Best for legacy snapshot, maintenance only
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