Newest and best AI models, October 2026
The newest model we have verified is GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI), released Oct 26, 2026. The best model depends on the job, so each pick below names its criterion and its source.
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Newest models
Reported from vendor pages, not run by us.
Best model by job, with the criterion
We do not rank models with a score of our own. Each pick uses a named public leaderboard snapshot or a stated fact, and says when no neutral source exists. We have not run these models ourselves yet.
What is the best AI model for coding right now?
Criterion: Highest-ranked model on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22) that is also in our model list.
Next: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5
Caveat: Human-preference voting on web development tasks, not our own test and not a measure of cost. Vendor claims are listed separately on each model page.
Source: LMArena WebDev, snapshot 2026-10-22
Which AI model is ranked first for general chat preference right now?
Criterion: Rank 1 on the LMArena Text Arena (snapshot 2026-10-08).
Next: Claude Opus 5.5
Caveat: Its score was marked preliminary on that snapshot, and the leaderboard changes daily. Preference voting is not a measure of accuracy.
Source: LMArena Text Arena, snapshot 2026-10-08
What is the best open-weights AI model right now?
Criterion: Highest-ranked open-weights model in our list on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22).
Caveat: Coding-task preference only. Licences differ: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is MIT; Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 add commercial conditions.
Source: LMArena WebDev, snapshot 2026-10-22
What is the best open-weights model small enough to run on one machine?
Criterion: Highest-ranked open-weights model of 31B parameters or fewer in our list on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22).
Next: Gemma 4
Caveat: Qwen3.8-27B ranked #32 and Gemma 4 31B #113 on that board. Hardware needs depend on quantization; we did not run either model.
Source: LMArena WebDev, snapshot 2026-10-22
What is the best AI image generation model right now?
Criterion: Rank 1 on the LMArena Text-to-Image leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-07).
Next: Nano Banana 2.1
Caveat: Preliminary score. The #2 entry on that board, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare, is not in our model list.
Source: LMArena Text-to-Image, snapshot 2026-10-07
What is the best AI model for agents right now?
No single answer
Criterion: We do not name one. We found no neutral public agent leaderboard we could verify this week.
Candidates: Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Kimi K3
Caveat: The models listed are those their vendors position for agentic work. That is a vendor claim, not a ranking.
What is the best AI voice model right now?
No single answer
Criterion: We do not name one. We found no neutral public voice leaderboard we could verify this week.
Candidates: GPT-Live 1, Gemini 3.8 Live
Caveat: We list the newest voice models with their prices only.
What is the best AI video generation model right now?
No single answer
Criterion: We do not name one. We verified only one video model against vendor sources.
Candidates: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Caveat: Other video models (Veo, Kling, Seedance, Runway, Grok Imagine Video) were not verified against vendor sources.
All models, newest first
| Model | Vendor | Released | Context | Modalities (in → out) | Licence | Price | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Terra | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $1 in / $5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | Moonshot AI | 1.05M | n/a → n/a | Not yet published | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed | Moonshot AI | 1.05M | n/a → n/a | not verified | $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB) | NVIDIA | 64K | text → text | OpenMDW-1.1 | not stated | source | ||
| Voxtral 3 | Mistral AI | not verified | n/a → n/a | not verified | Mini Transcribe 3, per minute of audio $0.0035; Small Transcribe 3, per minute of audio $0.004; Mini Transcribe Realtime 3, per minute of audio $0.008; Mini TTS 3, per 1M characters $13; Voice agent API with Mistral Small 4 for reasoning, per minute $0.04; Voice agent API with a larger model, per minute $0.08 (see each line) | source | ||
| Mercury 3 | Inception | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $0.1 in / $0.35 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | MiniMax | 1M | text, image, video → text | MiniMax Community License | $0.15 in / $0.6 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | DeepSeek | 1M | text, image → text | MIT | ¥1 in / ¥4 out per 1M tokens; peak: ¥2 / ¥8 | source | ||
| Muse Spark Open | Meta | 1M | text, image, video, audio → text | Muse Model License (limited commercial terms) | not stated | source | ||
| Grok Voice 3.0 | xAI | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | ||
| Gemini 4 Argon | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens; from Dec 1, 2026: $4 / $20 | source | |||
| Muse Wonder | Meta | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | Proprietary (API) | $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Muse Wonder Full | Meta | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (subscription) | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | 1M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $0.1 in / $0.5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Mistral Large 4 | Mistral AI | 1M | n/a → n/a | Not yet published | $1.36 in / $4.18 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Nano Banana 2.1 | not verified | n/a → image | Proprietary (API) | 1K image $0.0336; 2K image $0.0504; 4K image $0.113 (per image) | source | |||
| GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | 1M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 1M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS | not verified | n/a → audio | Proprietary (API) | Text input $0.5; Audio output $9 (per 1M tokens) | source | |||
| Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS | 8K | text → audio | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $0.1 in / $0.5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | not verified | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Grok 4.7 | xAI | 500K | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 | xAI | not verified | audio → text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 1M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.8 Live | not verified | text, audio → text, audio | Proprietary (API) | Text input $0.75; Audio input $3; Text output $4.5; Audio output $12 (per 1M tokens) | source | |||
| Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking | 131K | text, image, audio → text, audio | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | DeepSeek | 1M | text, image → text | MIT | ¥1 in / ¥4 out per 1M tokens; peak: ¥2 / ¥8 | source | ||
| GPT-Live 1 | OpenAI | not verified | text, audio → text, audio | Proprietary (API) | Voice session, billed per second $0.05 (per minute) | source | ||
| North Small Translate | Cohere | 16K | n/a → n/a | CC BY-NC 4.0 | not stated | source | ||
| GPT-Image-2.5 Flare | OpenAI | not verified | text, image → image | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $30 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst | OpenAI | not verified | n/a → image | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $30 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M tokens; from Jan 1, 2027: $1.5 / $7.5 | source | |||
| Claude Mythos 5.1 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash | not verified | n/a → video | Proprietary (API) | Input per 1M tokens $1.5; Output per second of 720p video (approx.) $0.1 (mixed) | source | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe | not verified | audio → text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| GLM-5.3-Flash | Z.ai | not verified | n/a → n/a | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| GLM-5.3 | Z.ai | 1.05M | n/a → text | GLM-5.3 License (MIT-style plus a MaaS condition) | $1.4 in / $4.4 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Qwen3.8-27B | Alibaba | 262K | n/a → n/a | Apache-2.0 | not stated | source | ||
| Grok 4.6 | xAI | 500K | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | Alibaba | 262K | n/a → n/a | Qwen3.8-Max License (custom) | not stated | source | ||
| Gemini Robotics ER 2 | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| GPT-Live-Transcribe | OpenAI | not verified | audio, text → text | Proprietary (API) | Realtime transcription $0.017 (per minute) | source | ||
| GPT-Transcribe | OpenAI | not verified | audio, text → text | Proprietary (API) | Transcription $0.0045 (per minute) | source | ||
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $25 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | 1M | n/a → n/a | Kimi K3 License (custom) | $3 in / $15 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $0.2 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $12 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Grok 4.5 | xAI | 500K | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Cohere Transcribe Arabic | Cohere | not verified | n/a → n/a | Apache 2.0 | not stated | source | ||
| GPT-Realtime-2.1 | OpenAI | 128K | text, audio, image → text, audio | Proprietary (API) | $4 in / $24 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini | OpenAI | 128K | text, audio, image → text, audio | Proprietary (API) | $0.6 in / $2.4 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Nano Banana 2 Lite | 66K | text, image, video, pdf → image, text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| GLM-5.2 | Z.ai | 1M | n/a → n/a | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Claude Mythos 5 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | ||
| North Mini Code | Cohere | 256K | n/a → n/a | Apache 2.0 | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 1M | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $25 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Nano Banana Pro | 66K | image, text → image, text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| Command A+ | Cohere | 128K | n/a → n/a | Apache 2.0 | not stated | source | ||
| Grok Build 0.1 | xAI | 256K | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $1 in / $2 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | 1.05M | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | 256K | n/a → n/a | Modified MIT | $1.5 in / $7.5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $30 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $30 in / $180 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Qwen3.6-27B | Alibaba | 262K | n/a → n/a | Apache-2.0 | not stated | source | ||
| GPT-Image-2 | OpenAI | not verified | text, image → image | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $25 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GLM-5.1 | Z.ai | not verified | n/a → n/a | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| Gemma 4 | 256K | text, image, video, audio → text | Apache 2.0 | not stated | source | |||
| Cohere Transcribe | Cohere | not verified | audio → text | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| Voxtral TTS | Mistral AI | not verified | n/a → audio | not verified | Speech output $16 (per 1M characters) | source | ||
| GPT-5.4 mini | OpenAI | 400K | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $0.75 in / $4.5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI | 256K | n/a → n/a | Apache 2.0 | $0.15 in / $0.6 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Grok 4.20 | xAI | 1M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $1.25 in / $2.5 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | 1.05M | text, image → text | Proprietary (API) | $2.5 in / $15 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | |||
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | not stated | source | ||
| GLM-5 | Z.ai | not verified | n/a → n/a | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | not verified | n/a → n/a | Proprietary (API) | $5 in / $25 out per 1M tokens | source | ||
| GLM-Image | Z.ai | not verified | n/a → image | not verified | not stated | source | ||
| Ministral 3 14B | Mistral AI | 256K | n/a → n/a | Apache 2.0 | $0.2 in / $0.2 out per 1M tokens | source |
Prices are per 1M tokens unless the cell says otherwise, as stated on the vendor page on the verified date. Pricing can change; check the source link.
Frontier models
The vendors' flagship general-purpose language models, as named on their own release pages. Frontier here means flagship tier from a vendor, not a ranking.
Muse Spark Open, Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, Muse Wonder Full, Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 22 more, all in the table above.
Coding
Models vendors and public leaderboards point to for writing and changing code.
Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, Muse Wonder Full, GPT-6.1 Sol and 30 more, all in the table above.
Agents
Models positioned by their vendors for long-running, tool-using work.
GPT-6.1 Terra, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, Mercury 3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, Muse Wonder Full and 36 more, all in the table above.
Reasoning
Models positioned for complex multi-step problems.
Kimi K3.1 Pro, Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, Grok 4.7, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking and 7 more, all in the table above.
Open weights
Weights you can download. Licence terms vary and are shown per model.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Muse Spark Open, Mistral Large 4, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, North Small Translate, GLM-5.3 and 11 more, all in the table above.
Runs on your own hardware
Open-weights models small enough for a single workstation or server.
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), Qwen3.8-27B, North Mini Code, Qwen3.6-27B, Gemma 4, Mistral Small 4, Ministral 3 14B
Small and fast
Low-cost, low-latency models for high-volume work.
GPT-6.1 Terra, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), Mercury 3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Claude Haiku 5.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and 14 more, all in the table above.
Image
Image generation and editing models.
Nano Banana 2.1, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare, GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image-2, GLM-Image
Voice
Real-time voice and text-to-speech models.
Voxtral 3, Grok Voice 3.0, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, Gemini 3.8 Live, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, GPT-Live 1 and 8 more, all in the table above.
Video
Video generation and editing models.
Quick answers
- What is the newest AI model release in this dataset?
- GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI), released Oct 26, 2026. Derived from the release dates in our data; check /models.json for anything newer than the as-of date. As of Oct 26, 2026. Latest release date among models we verified against vendor sources; models sharing the date are all listed.
- What is the latest OpenAI language model?
- GPT-6.1 Terra, released Oct 26, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among OpenAI language models we verified.
- What is the latest Moonshot AI language model?
- Kimi K3.1 Pro, released Oct 23, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Moonshot AI language models we verified.
- What is the latest NVIDIA language model?
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), released Oct 23, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among NVIDIA language models we verified.
- What is the latest Inception language model?
- Mercury 3, released Oct 19, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Inception language models we verified.
- What is the latest MiniMax language model?
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash, released Oct 19, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among MiniMax language models we verified.
- What is the latest DeepSeek language model?
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, released Oct 17, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among DeepSeek language models we verified.
- What is the latest Meta language model?
- Muse Spark Open, released Oct 15, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Meta language models we verified.
- What is the latest Google language model?
- Gemini 4 Argon, released Oct 13, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Google language models we verified.
- What is the latest Anthropic language model?
- Claude Haiku 5.5, released Oct 7, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Anthropic language models we verified.
- What is the latest Mistral AI language model?
- Mistral Large 4, released Oct 6, 2026 (public preview). As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Mistral AI language models we verified.
- What is the latest xAI language model?
- Grok 4.7, released Sep 21, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among xAI language models we verified.
- What is the latest Cohere language model?
- North Small Translate, released Sep 9, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Cohere language models we verified.
- What is the latest Z.ai language model?
- GLM-5.3-Flash, released Aug 26, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Z.ai language models we verified.
- What is the latest Alibaba language model?
- Qwen3.8-27B, released Aug 14, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among Alibaba language models we verified.
- What is the newest image AI model in this dataset?
- Nano Banana 2.1 (Google), released Oct 6, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among image models we verified.
- What is the newest voice AI model in this dataset?
- Voxtral 3 (Mistral AI), released Oct 20, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among voice models we verified.
- What is the newest video AI model in this dataset?
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (Google), released Aug 27, 2026. As of Oct 26, 2026. Newest release date among video models we verified.
- What is the best AI model for coding right now?
- Claude Opus 5.5; next: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5. As of Oct 22, 2026. Highest-ranked model on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22) that is also in our model list.
- Which AI model is ranked first for general chat preference right now?
- Gemini 4 Argon; next: Claude Opus 5.5. As of Oct 8, 2026. Rank 1 on the LMArena Text Arena (snapshot 2026-10-08).
- What is the best open-weights AI model right now?
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017; next: Kimi K3, GLM-5.3. As of Oct 22, 2026. Highest-ranked open-weights model in our list on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22).
- What is the best open-weights model small enough to run on one machine?
- Qwen3.8-27B; next: Gemma 4. As of Oct 22, 2026. Highest-ranked open-weights model of 31B parameters or fewer in our list on the LMArena WebDev leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-22).
- What is the best AI image generation model right now?
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst; next: Nano Banana 2.1. As of Oct 7, 2026. Rank 1 on the LMArena Text-to-Image leaderboard (snapshot 2026-10-07).
- What is the best AI model for agents right now?
- No single answer. We found no neutral public agent leaderboard we could verify this week. Candidates: Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Kimi K3. As of Oct 26, 2026. We do not name one. We found no neutral public agent leaderboard we could verify this week.
- What is the best AI voice model right now?
- No single answer. We found no neutral public voice leaderboard we could verify this week. Candidates: GPT-Live 1, Gemini 3.8 Live. As of Oct 26, 2026. We do not name one. We found no neutral public voice leaderboard we could verify this week.
- What is the best AI video generation model right now?
- No single answer. We verified only one video model against vendor sources. Candidates: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. As of Oct 26, 2026. We do not name one. We verified only one video model against vendor sources.
- What is the cheapest AI language model API in this dataset?
- Ministral 3 14B at $0.2 in / $0.2 out per 1M tokens. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is priced in CNY and is not compared here. As of Oct 26, 2026. Lowest sum of USD list price per 1M input plus 1M output tokens among language models with a USD price on the vendor's page. Cached rates, tiers and free tiers are ignored.
- Which AI models have a context window of 1M tokens or more?
- GPT-6.1 Terra, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, Mercury 3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Muse Spark Open, Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, Claude Fable 5.1, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Mythos 5.1, GLM-5.3, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, Claude Sonnet 5, GLM-5.2, Claude Fable 5, Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, Grok 4.20, GPT-5.4. The largest stated window is 1,050,000 tokens. As of Oct 26, 2026. Context window stated by the vendor, in tokens (Gemini and GPT-6 list slightly above 1M).
- Which models in this dataset have downloadable open weights?
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB) (OpenMDW-1.1); MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax Community License); DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (MIT); Muse Spark Open (Muse Model License (limited commercial terms)); DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (MIT); North Small Translate (CC BY-NC 4.0); GLM-5.3 (GLM-5.3 License (MIT-style plus a MaaS condition)); Qwen3.8-27B (Apache-2.0); Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max License (custom)); Kimi K3 (Kimi K3 License (custom)); Cohere Transcribe Arabic (Apache 2.0); North Mini Code (Apache 2.0); Command A+ (Apache 2.0); Mistral Medium 3.5 (Modified MIT); Qwen3.6-27B (Apache-2.0); Gemma 4 (Apache 2.0); Mistral Small 4 (Apache 2.0); Ministral 3 14B (Apache 2.0). As of Oct 26, 2026. Weights published for download; the licence is shown because terms differ and some limit commercial use.
The same pairs, with source URLs, are in answers.json.
Leaderboards we cite
We name the board, the snapshot date and the link. We do not copy their tables; open the link for the live ranking.
- LMArena Text Arena, snapshot Oct 8, 2026. Crowd-voted human preference between anonymous model answers (Elo-style score). We read this snapshot on Oct 8, 2026. The live board changes daily; check it before relying on the order. Third-party mirrors show different numbers, so we cite arena.ai only.
- LMArena WebDev, snapshot Oct 22, 2026. Crowd-voted preference on front-end web development tasks, including agentic coding workflows. Highest open-weights entries from our model list on this snapshot: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20261017 (#14, MIT), Kimi K3 (#17), GLM-5.3 (#25), Qwen3.8-27B (#32, Apache 2.0), Muse Spark Open (#53), Gemma 4 31B (#113). Page showed 151 models and 923,854 votes.
- LMArena Text-to-Image, snapshot Oct 7, 2026. Crowd-voted preference between images generated from the same prompt. Nano Banana 2.1 ranked #6 (preliminary) on this snapshot.
How we label and refresh facts
- Reported: read from the cited vendor page on the verified date. We did not run the model.
- Tested: we ran it ourselves, with the scope stated. None of these models is Tested yet; see methodology and our test logs.
- Facts we could not confirm on a vendor page are left out and listed on each model page under “Not verified”. Vendor pages beat third-party summaries when they disagree.
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