Model rankings updated July 2026 based on real usage data.
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GPT-5.6 Luna is a fast, cost-efficient model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks such as chat, classification, and lightweight agentic workflows, providing capable reasoning for its price tier.
GPT-5.6 Luna Pro is the same underlying model as GPT-5.6 Luna, served with reasoning.mode set to pro for higher-quality responses on complex tasks.
Learn more in OpenAI's docs: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/reasoning#reasoning-mode
GPT-5.6 Terra is a balanced model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, positioned between the flagship Sol tier and the cost-efficient Luna tier. It is suited for everyday coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks where capability and cost need to be balanced, offering strong performance at roughly half the cost of Sol.
GPT-5.6 Terra Pro is the same underlying model as GPT-5.6 Terra, served with reasoning.mode set to pro for higher-quality responses on complex tasks.
Learn more in OpenAI's docs: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/reasoning#reasoning-mode
Ling-2.6-flash is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI with 104B total parameters and 7.4B active parameters, designed for real-world agents that require fast responses, strong execution, and high token efficiency. It delivers performance comparable to state-of-the-art models at a similar scale while significantly reducing token usage across coding, document processing, and lightweight agent workflows.
Ling-2.6-1T is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI and the company’s trillion-parameter flagship, designed for real-world agents that require fast execution and high efficiency at scale. It uses a “fast thinking” approach to reduce costs to roughly a quarter of comparable models while maintaining top-tier performance.
The model achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks such as AIME26 and SWE-bench Verified, and is well suited for advanced coding, complex reasoning, and large-scale agent workflows where both capability and efficiency are critical.
Ring-2.6-1T is a 1T-parameter-scale thinking model with 63B active parameters, built for real-world agent workflows that require both strong capability and operational efficiency. It is optimized for coding agents, tool use, and long-horizon task execution, delivering leading results on benchmarks including PinchBench, ClawEval, TAU2-Bench, and GAIA2-search.
With adaptive reasoning effort across high and xhigh modes, Ring-2.6-1T dynamically allocates reasoning budget based on task complexity. This enables stronger performance with lower token overhead, especially in tool-heavy and multi-turn agent workflows.
Ring-2.6-1T is designed for advanced coding agents, complex reasoning pipelines, and large-scale autonomous systems where execution quality, latency, and cost efficiency all matter.

Hy3 preview is a high-efficiency Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent designed for agentic workflows and production use. It supports configurable reasoning levels across disabled, low, and high modes, allowing it to balance speed and depth depending on the task, while delivering strong code generation and reliable performance across multi-step, real-world workflows.
LongCat 2.0 is a sparse mixture-of-experts language model from Meituan, with 48B active parameters out of 1.6T total. It is suited for coding, repository-level changes, long-horizon problem solving, and agentic workflows.
MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement. Built to actively participate in its own evolution, M2.7 integrates advanced agentic capabilities through multi-agent collaboration, enabling it to plan, execute, and refine complex tasks across dynamic environments.
Trained for production-grade performance, M2.7 handles workflows such as live debugging, root cause analysis, financial modeling, and full document generation across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It delivers strong results on benchmarks including 56.2% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2, while achieving a 1495 ELO on GDPval-AA, setting a new standard for multi-agent systems operating in real-world digital workflows.
MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks.
Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is a 30.5B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model from Qwen, with 3.3B active parameters per inference. It operates in non-thinking mode and is designed for high-quality instruction following, multilingual understanding, and agentic tool use. Post-trained on instruction data, it demonstrates competitive performance across reasoning (AIME, ZebraLogic), coding (MultiPL-E, LiveCodeBench), and alignment (IFEval, WritingBench) benchmarks. It outperforms its non-instruct variant on subjective and open-ended tasks while retaining strong factual and coding performance.
GLM 5.2 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agent workflows, project-level software engineering, and complex multi-step automation.
Reasoning efforts high and xhigh are supported; xhigh maps to max reasoning. It is particularly strong at coding and tool use across long-running tasks, able to maintain engineering context and follow standards consistently through a full development workflow, from requirements to multi-platform deployment, in a single task.

Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text input and output and is designed for agent-centric workloads, with particular strengths in coding, office and productivity tasks, and long-horizon autonomous execution. The model offers notable gains in coding and agentic performance over prior Qwen generations and supports explicit prompt caching for efficient repeated context use.
Laguna XS 2.1 is the latest coding agent model in the 33B-A3B category from Poolside and a step forward from their Laguna XS.2 model (released in April 2026). It combines tool calling and reasoning capabilities with a compact footprint, offering a 256K context window and up to 32K output tokens. Quantized to FP8 for fast, cost-efficient agentic coding workflows.
Laguna XS 2.1 is designed for software engineering and agentic coding use cases, and you are responsible for confirming that it is appropriate for your intended application. Laguna XS 2.1 is subject to the OpenMDW-1.1 License, and should be used consistently with Poolside's Acceptable Use Policy. We advise against circumventing Laguna XS 2.1 safety guardrails without implementing substantially equivalent mitigations appropriate for your use case.
Please report security vulnerabilities or safety concerns to [email protected].
If you are using Laguna XS 2.1 for free, we may use your inputs and outputs to train and improve our models.
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading closed-source models. With advanced agentic planning, deep backend reasoning, and iterative self-correction, GLM-5 moves beyond code generation to full-system construction and autonomous execution.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for fast inference and high-throughput workloads, while maintaining strong reasoning and coding performance.
The model includes hybrid attention for efficient long-context processing. Reasoning efforts high and xhigh are supported; xhigh maps to max reasoning. It is well suited for applications such as coding assistants, chat systems, and agent workflows where responsiveness and cost efficiency are important.

Qwen-Plus, based on the Qwen2.5 foundation model, is a 131K context model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and code tasks, and a "non-thinking" mode for general conversational efficiency. The model demonstrates strong reasoning ability, multilingual support (100+ languages and dialects), advanced instruction-following, and agent tool-calling capabilities. It natively handles a 32K token context window and extends up to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. It activates 22B of its 235B parameters per forward pass and natively supports up to 262,144 tokens of context. This "thinking-only" variant enhances structured logical reasoning, mathematics, science, and long-form generation, showing strong benchmark performance across AIME, SuperGPQA, LiveCodeBench, and MMLU-Redux. It enforces a special reasoning mode (</think>) and is designed for high-token outputs (up to 81,920 tokens) in challenging domains.
The model is instruction-tuned and excels at step-by-step reasoning, tool use, agentic workflows, and multilingual tasks. This release represents the most capable open-source variant in the Qwen3-235B series, surpassing many closed models in structured reasoning use cases.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 is a 30B parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model optimized for complex tasks requiring extended multi-step thinking. The model is designed specifically for “thinking mode,” where internal reasoning traces are separated from final answers.
Compared to earlier Qwen3-30B releases, this version improves performance across logical reasoning, mathematics, science, coding, and multilingual benchmarks. It also demonstrates stronger instruction following, tool use, and alignment with human preferences. With higher reasoning efficiency and extended output budgets, it is best suited for advanced research, competitive problem solving, and agentic applications requiring structured long-context reasoning.

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math, coding, and logical inference, and "non-thinking" mode for general conversation. The model is fine-tuned for instruction-following, agent integration, creative writing, and multilingual use across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively supports a 32K token context window and can extend to 131K tokens with YaRN scaling.

Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.

Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.

Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It delivers higher accuracy in math, coding, logic, and science tasks, follows complex instructions in Chinese and English more reliably, reduces hallucinations, and produces higher-quality responses for open-ended Q&A, writing, and conversation. The model supports over 100 languages with stronger translation and commonsense reasoning, and is optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool calling, though it does not include a dedicated “thinking” mode.

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic planning, and reports strong results across knowledge, reasoning, coding, alignment, and multilingual evaluations. Compared with prior Qwen3 variants, it emphasizes stability under long chains of thought and efficient scaling during inference, and it is tuned to follow complex instructions while reducing repetitive or off-task behavior.
The model is suitable for agent frameworks and tool use (function calling), retrieval-heavy workflows, and standardized benchmarking where step-by-step solutions are required. It supports long, detailed completions and leverages throughput-oriented techniques (e.g., multi-token prediction) for faster generation. Note that it operates in thinking-only mode.

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Thinking model is optimized for multimodal reasoning in STEM and math. The series emphasizes robust perception (recognition of diverse real-world and synthetic categories), spatial understanding (2D/3D grounding), and long-form visual comprehension, with competitive results on public multimodal benchmarks for both perception and reasoning.
Beyond analysis, Qwen3-VL supports agentic interaction and tool use: it can follow complex instructions over multi-image, multi-turn dialogues; align text to video timelines for precise temporal queries; and operate GUI elements for automation tasks. The models also enable visual coding workflows, turning sketches or mockups into code and assisting with UI debugging, while maintaining strong text-only performance comparable to the flagship Qwen3 language models. This makes Qwen3-VL suitable for production scenarios spanning document AI, multilingual OCR, software/UI assistance, spatial/embodied tasks, and research on vision-language agents.

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning in STEM, math, and complex tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is a large-scale multimodal vision-language model designed for high-precision understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. With 32 billion parameters, it combines deep visual perception with advanced text comprehension, enabling fine-grained spatial reasoning, document and scene analysis, and long-horizon video understanding.Robust OCR in 32 languages, and enhanced multimodal fusion through Interleaved-MRoPE and DeepStack architectures. Optimized for agentic interaction and visual tool use, Qwen3-VL-32B delivers state-of-the-art performance for complex real-world multimodal tasks.

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon temporal reasoning, DeepStack for fine-grained visual-text alignment, and text-timestamp alignment for precise event localization.
The model supports a native 256K-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens, and handles both static and dynamic media inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual question answering, spatial reasoning, and GUI control. It achieves text understanding comparable to leading LLMs while expanding OCR coverage to 32 languages and enhancing robustness under varied visual conditions.

Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alignment and long-context processing (native 256K, expandable to 1M tokens) for tasks such as scientific visual analysis, causal inference, and mathematical reasoning over image or video inputs.
Compared to the Instruct edition, the Thinking version introduces deeper visual-language fusion and deliberate reasoning pathways that improve performance on long-chain logic tasks, STEM problem-solving, and multi-step video understanding. It achieves stronger temporal grounding via Interleaved-MRoPE and timestamp-aware embeddings, while maintaining robust OCR, multilingual comprehension, and text generation on par with large text-only LLMs.

The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance. Its overall capabilities are comparable to those of the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.

The Qwen3.5 native vision-language Flash models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Compared to the 3 series, these models deliver a leap forward in performance for both pure text and multimodal tasks, offering fast response times while balancing inference speed and overall performance.

The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. In a variety of task evaluations, the 3.5 series consistently demonstrates performance on par with state-of-the-art leading models. Compared to the 3 series, these models show a leap forward in both pure-text and multimodal capabilities.

Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers major gains in agentic coding, front-end development, and overall reasoning, with a significantly improved “vibe coding” experience. The model excels at complex tasks such as 3D scenes, games, and repository-level problem solving, achieving a 78.8 score on SWE-bench Verified. It represents a substantial leap in both pure-text and multimodal capabilities, performing at the level of leading state-of-the-art models.
GLM-5.1 delivers a major leap in coding capability, with particularly significant gains in handling long-horizon tasks. Unlike previous models built around minute-level interactions, GLM-5.1 can work independently and continuously on a single task for more than 8 hours, autonomously planning, executing, and improving itself throughout the process, ultimately delivering complete, engineering-grade results.
DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, the reported evaluations reveal that the model outperforms other open-source models and rivals leading closed-source models.
For model details, please visit the DeepSeek-V3 repo for more information, or see the launch announcement.

DeepSeek-V3.2 is a large language model designed to harmonize high computational efficiency with strong reasoning and agentic tool-use performance. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a fine-grained sparse attention mechanism that reduces training and inference cost while preserving quality in long-context scenarios. A scalable reinforcement learning post-training framework further improves reasoning, with reported performance in the GPT-5 class, and the model has demonstrated gold-medal results on the 2025 IMO and IOI. V3.2 also uses a large-scale agentic task synthesis pipeline to better integrate reasoning into tool-use settings, boosting compliance and generalization in interactive environments.
Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the reasoning enabled boolean. Learn more in our docs

Qwen3.5 Plus (April 2026) is a large-scale multimodal language model from Alibaba. It accepts text, image, and video input and produces text output, with a 1M token context window. This is an updated version of Qwen3.5 Plus with tiered pricing above 256K tokens.

Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series. It supports text, image, and video input with a 1M token context window. Tiered pricing kicks in above 256K tokens. Prompt caching is supported, with both explicit cache read and cache creation pricing.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window. The model includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning traces across multi-turn conversations and supports structured output and function calling. Access is available exclusively through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Qwen Studio APIs; no open weights are provided.

Qwen3.7-Plus is a cost-effective model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text and image input with text output, building on the series' text capabilities with a comprehensive upgrade to its vision-language abilities while retaining full-stack, agent-level intelligence for coding, tool use, and productivity workflows. Its distinguishing trait is multi-modal interactive hybrid agent capability: it can perceive real-world scenes, read screens and interact with GUIs, generate code from visual references, and perform end-to-end navigation within mobile apps.
MiMo-V2.5 is a native omnimodal model by Xiaomi. It delivers Pro-level agentic performance at roughly half the inference cost, while surpassing MiMo-V2-Omni in multimodal perception across image and video understanding tasks. Its 1M context window supports complete documents, extended conversations, and complex task contexts in a single pass, making it ideal for integration with agent frameworks where strong reasoning, rich perception, and cost efficiency all matter.
MiMo-V2.5-Pro is Xiaomi’s flagship model, delivering strong performance in general agentic capabilities, complex software engineering, and long-horizon tasks, with top rankings on benchmarks such as ClawEval, GDPVal, and SWE-bench Pro. It can independently and autonomously complete professional tasks that would take human experts days or weeks, involving more than a thousand tool calls. Its context length of up to 1M makes it well suited for integration with a wide range of agent frameworks.
MiniMax-M2 is a compact, high-efficiency large language model optimized for end-to-end coding and agentic workflows. With 10 billion activated parameters (230 billion total), it delivers near-frontier intelligence across general reasoning, tool use, and multi-step task execution while maintaining low latency and deployment efficiency.
The model excels in code generation, multi-file editing, compile-run-fix loops, and test-validated repair, showing strong results on SWE-Bench Verified, Multi-SWE-Bench, and Terminal-Bench. It also performs competitively in agentic evaluations such as BrowseComp and GAIA, effectively handling long-horizon planning, retrieval, and recovery from execution errors.
Benchmarked by Artificial Analysis, MiniMax-M2 ranks among the top open-source models for composite intelligence, spanning mathematics, science, and instruction-following. Its small activation footprint enables fast inference, high concurrency, and improved unit economics, making it well-suited for large-scale agents, developer assistants, and reasoning-driven applications that require responsiveness and cost efficiency.
To avoid degrading this model's performance, MiniMax highly recommends preserving reasoning between turns. Learn more about using reasoning_details to pass back reasoning in our docs.

Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent (21B active, 192 experts with top-8 routing) built for reasoning, agentic workflows, and real-world production use. It supports a configurable reasoning effort: a direct no-think mode by default, plus low and high chain-of-thought modes for complex math, coding, and multi-step problems. With a 256K context window, Hy3 targets long-horizon tasks, including improved coreference resolution, multi-turn constraint tracking, and stable tool-calling that generalizes across agent scaffoldings.
Tencent positions it as a reliable, cost-effective option across coding, document processing, financial analysis, game development, and frontend design, with a strong emphasis on grounded, anti-hallucination behavior that answers when grounded and flags when evidence is missing rather than fabricating.