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Field guide · 2026-08-28

Which model, for this job.

The top of the board is two points wide. Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Grok 4.6 sit inside that band. Cost, speed, context, and whether you can download the weights decide the rest.

What is the job

31 models

Labs
X
Grok 4.6
SpaceXAI
61Index
Closed500K

Frontier score at a mid-tier bill. Live X and web. Knowledge-work tasks like GDPval.

Intelligence61
Terminal88
In / out
$2.00 / $6.00
Per task
$0.84
Details
A
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
63Index
Closed1M

Hard work someone will sign. Agentic coding, long projects, detail-heavy writing.

Intelligence63
Terminal89
In / out
$5.00 / $25
Per task
$2.34
Details
OA
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
61Index
Closed1.1M

Flagship agents and coding. Dead heat with Opus on hard jobs, fewer tokens to finish them.

Intelligence61
Terminal88
In / out
$5.00 / $30
Per task
$1.23
Details
A
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
62Index
Closed1M

The last few points of capability when you have already measured an edge over Opus.

Intelligence62
Terminal85
In / out
$10 / $50
Per task
$3.14
Details
OA
GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
52Index
Closed1.1M

High volume, classification, fan-out, and the cheap first pass of an agent stack.

Intelligence52
Terminal61
In / out
$0.20 / $1.20
Per task
$0.05
Details
Z
GLM-5.3
Z.AI
60Index
Closed1M

Frontier-class coding at a mid-tier API bill.

Intelligence60
Terminal82
In / out
$1.40 / $4.40
Per task
$0.68
Details
K
Kimi K3
Moonshot
60Index
Other · restricted1M

The strongest model you can actually download. Long autonomous coding runs.

Intelligence60
Terminal84
In / out
$3.00 / $15
Per task
$0.84
Details
DS
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek
52Index
MIT1M

High-volume open-weight work. The sensible DeepSeek default.

Intelligence52
Terminal70
In / out
$0.44 / $1.32
Per task
$0.11
Details
G
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google
56Index
Closed1M

Fast multimodal work at volume. PDFs, images, audio, video, Workspace.

Intelligence56
Terminal86
In / out
$0.75 / $3.75
Per task
$0.40
Details
DS
DeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek
53Index
MIT1M

Near-frontier reasoning you can download under MIT. Best open permissive option.

Intelligence53
Terminal79
In / out
$1.32 / $3.96
Per task
$0.25
Details
M
Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
57Index
Closed1M

Cheap closed multimodal. Powers free Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook.

Intelligence57
Terminal69
In / out
$1.25 / $4.25
Per task
$0.40
Details
OA
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI
57Index
Closed1.1M

The OpenAI default. Everyday production work that should not hit Sol prices.

Intelligence57
Terminal79
In / out
$2.00 / $12
Per task
$0.51
Details
mm
MiniMax M3
MiniMax
54Index
MiniMax Community · restricted1M

Cheap multimodal with a million-token window when the license fits.

Intelligence54
Terminal63
In / out
$0.30 / $1.20
Per task
$0.22
Details
Z
GLM-5.3 Flash
Z.AI
52Index
Other · restricted1M

Cheap GLM coding when 5.3 is more than the job needs.

Intelligence52
Terminal67
In / out
$0.30 / $1.00
Per task
$0.19
Details
Q
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen
58Index
Closed1M

Multimodal and multilingual work on a budget, especially Chinese and mixed media.

Intelligence58
Terminal75
In / out
$2.00 / $6.00
Per task
$1.13
Details
Q
Qwen3.8 2.4T
Qwen
58Index
Other · restricted984K

Self-hosting Qwen-level quality when you can live with text-only input.

Intelligence58
Terminal75
In / out
$1.80 / $5.40
Per task
$1.09
Details
Q
Qwen3.8 Flash-Next
Qwen · Preview
50Index
Other · restricted256K

Efficient Qwen coding when Max is more model than you want to run.

Intelligence50
Terminal58
In / out
$0.15 / $0.60
Per task
$0.14
Details
X
Grok 4.5
SpaceXAI
56Index
Closed500K

Teams already on 4.5 who have not moved. Still cheap for the score.

Intelligence56
Terminal71
In / out
$2.00 / $6.00
Per task
$0.92
Details
A
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
55Index
Closed1M

The Claude default. Drafting, analysis, coding, and anything you will actually read.

Intelligence55
Terminal72
In / out
$2.00 / $10
Per task
$1.72
Details
Mi
Mistral Large 3
Mistral
50Index
Closed256K

EU teams, data residency, and European-language work at a sane price.

Intelligence50
Terminal59
In / out
$0.50 / $1.50
Per task
$0.32
Details
G
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
51Index
Closed1M

Existing Gemini 3.5 traffic that has not moved.

Intelligence51
Terminal64
In / out
$0.75 / $4.50
Per task
$0.48
Details
X
Grok 4 Fast
SpaceXAI
48Index
Closed2M

Two-million-token prompts: dumps, logs, multi-doc review, cheap long context.

Intelligence48
Terminal55
In / out
$0.20 / $0.50
Per task
$0.18
Details
A
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
52Index
Closed1M

Pinned production that is not ready to move off the 4.x stack.

Intelligence52
Terminal68
In / out
$5.00 / $25
Per task
$2.10
Details
G
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google
42Index
Closed1M

Classification, extraction, and cheap multimodal at extreme volume.

Intelligence42
Terminal38
In / out
$0.15 / $1.25
Per task
$0.08
Details
M
Muse Glimmer
Meta
38Index
Apache-2.0128K

Local agents on one GPU. Permissive license. Not a cloud flagship.

Intelligence38
Terminal29
In / out
$0.08 / $0.24
Per task
$0.04
Details
N
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
NVIDIA
37Index
NVIDIA Open128K

Local agents and research. The most completely open release in this catalog.

Intelligence37
Terminal27
In / out
$0.05 / $0.20
Per task
$0.03
Details
M
Llama 4 Scout
Meta
41Index
Llama 4 Community · restricted10M

Enormous documents on a budget. Local and hosted Llama that still has a real ecosystem.

Intelligence41
Terminal32
In / out
$0.11 / $0.34
Per task
$0.09
Details
a
Amazon Nova 2 Pro
Amazon
46Index
Closed1M

AWS shops that want vision and tools without a second vendor.

Intelligence46
Terminal44
In / out
$0.80 / $3.20
Per task
$0.45
Details
Mi
Ministral 3 14B
Mistral
36Index
Apache-2.0256K

On-device and air-gapped work where 14B is the budget.

Intelligence36
Terminal22
In / out
$0.20 / $0.20
Per task
$0.06
Details
C
Command A
Cohere
44Index
Closed256K

Grounded answers over your corpus. Search, RAG, enterprise assistants.

Intelligence44
Terminal29
In / out
$2.50 / $10
Per task
$0.70
Details
G
Gemini 3.5 Pro
Google · Not generally available
—Index
Closed1M

Nothing you can buy today. Listed so you do not plan a stack around a rumor.

Intelligence—
Terminal—
In / out
$1.50 / $12
Per task
—
Details
ModelIndexGPQATerm.AgentSpeed$/taskIn/outCtx
XGrok 4.6SpaceXAI · Closed6191.288.458.766/s$0.84$2.00 / $6.00500K
AClaude Opus 5Anthropic · Closed6392.489.156.268/s$2.34$5.00 / $251M
OAGPT-5.6 SolOpenAI · Closed6194.688.057.862/s$1.23$5.00 / $301.1M
AClaude Fable 5Anthropic · Closed6291.884.656.6106/s$3.14$10 / $501M
OAGPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI · Closed5278.461.228.4180/s$0.05$0.20 / $1.201.1M
ZGLM-5.3Z.AI · Closed6090.182.441.295/s$0.68$1.40 / $4.401M
KKimi K3Moonshot · Other · restricted6093.584.141.377/s$0.84$3.00 / $151M
DSDeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek · MIT5282.770.138.2130/s$0.11$0.44 / $1.321M
GGemini 3.7 FlashGoogle · Closed5683.685.845.1340/s$0.40$0.75 / $3.751M
DSDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek · MIT5386.878.749.678/s$0.25$1.32 / $3.961M
MMuse Spark 1.2Meta · Closed5787.269.437.0140/s$0.40$1.25 / $4.251M
OAGPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI · Closed5788.179.440.7117/s$0.51$2.00 / $121.1M
mmMiniMax M3MiniMax · MiniMax Community · restricted5484.863.234.6120/s$0.22$0.30 / $1.201M
ZGLM-5.3 FlashZ.AI · Other · restricted5281.466.839.1140/s$0.19$0.30 / $1.001M
QQwen3.8 MaxQwen · Closed5889.475.239.747/s$1.13$2.00 / $6.001M
QQwen3.8 2.4TQwen · Other · restricted5889.174.638.955/s$1.09$1.80 / $5.40984K
QQwen3.8 Flash-NextQwen · Other · restricted5080.658.437.2160/s$0.14$0.15 / $0.60256K
XGrok 4.5SpaceXAI · Closed5686.471.244.172/s$0.92$2.00 / $6.00500K
AClaude Sonnet 5Anthropic · Closed5584.272.433.775/s$1.72$2.00 / $101M
MiMistral Large 3Mistral · Closed5076.458.929.4110/s$0.32$0.50 / $1.50256K
GGemini 3.5 FlashGoogle · Closed5179.264.131.4250/s$0.48$0.75 / $4.501M
XGrok 4 FastSpaceXAI · Closed4872.154.824.6210/s$0.18$0.20 / $0.502M
AClaude Opus 4.8Anthropic · Closed5282.168.236.857/s$2.10$5.00 / $251M
GGemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle · Closed4261.438.216.8420/s$0.08$0.15 / $1.251M
MMuse GlimmerMeta · Apache-2.03854.128.618.485/s$0.04$0.08 / $0.24128K
NNemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA · NVIDIA Open3752.426.817.195/s$0.03$0.05 / $0.20128K
MLlama 4 ScoutMeta · Llama 4 Community · restricted4158.232.414.2190/s$0.09$0.11 / $0.3410M
aAmazon Nova 2 ProAmazon · Closed4668.444.222.888/s$0.45$0.80 / $3.201M
MiMinistral 3 14BMistral · Apache-2.03650.022.111.470/s$0.06$0.20 / $0.20256K
CCommand ACohere · Closed4464.829.415.692/s$0.70$2.50 / $10256K
GGemini 3.5 ProGoogle · Closed——————$1.50 / $121M

Compiled 2026-08-28 from public Artificial Analysis, LMSYS-style arena, and first-party price sheets. Scores move. Recheck before you spend.

A two-point gap on the intelligence index is noise for most work. Cost per finished task is the number that shows up on the invoice.