Best of 2026
Best LLM models
The LLM versions that matter in 2026, ranked by real crowd verdicts, not by lab benchmarks alone. Each model links to a full review with verified API pricing per million tokens, context window, honest strengths and weaknesses, and a clear editorial verdict.
8 tools · ranked by crowd votes · updated July 2026
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Anthropic's fastest model: about 90% of Sonnet 4.5's coding skill at $1/$5 per 1M tokens, 200K context.
$5/1M out67%(2)Why: 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified, about 90% of Sonnet 4.5's agentic coding at one third of the price
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Anthropic's June 2026 Mythos-class flagship: 80.3% on SWE-bench Pro, 11 points clear of every other frontier model
$50/1M out63%(4)Why: 80.3% on SWE-bench Pro vs 69.2% for Opus 4.8, 58.6% for GPT-5.5 and 54.2% for Gemini 3.1 Pro, roughly 11 points ahead…
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Anthropic's April 2026 Opus: 87.6% SWE-bench Verified, 1M context, high-res vision, now behind Opus 4.8
$25/1M out57%(3)Why: 87.6% SWE-bench Verified (up from 80.8% on Opus 4.6) and 64.3% SWE-bench Pro at launch, ahead of GPT-5.4 (57.7%) and…
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Anthropic's flagship Opus-tier model for long-horizon agentic coding; 1M context at $5/$25 per 1M tokens.
$25/1M out57%(3)Why: SWE-Bench Pro 69.2% (vs 64.3% for Opus 4.7) and beats prior Opus models on CursorBench at every effort level; strong…
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Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet: near Opus 4.8 quality on coding and agents at $3/$15 with 1M context
$15/1M out ($10 intro until 2026-08-31)57%(3)Why: Large agentic gains over Sonnet 4.6: Terminal-Bench 2.1 80.4% vs 67.0%, OSWorld-Verified 81.2% vs 78.5%, SWE-bench Pro…
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OpenAI's agentic flagship: 1M context, SOTA ARC-AGI-2 and Terminal-Bench 2.0, $5/$30 per 1M tokens.
$30/1M out57%(3)Why: 1M-token context window (1,050,000) with 128K max output and reasoning effort tunable from none to xhigh
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Google's Nov 2025 frontier model: 1M context, first past 1500 Elo on LMArena, replaced by Gemini 3.1 Pro.
$12/1M out (prompts ≤200K)57%(3)Why: Topped LMArena at launch with a record 1501 Elo and scored 91.9% on GPQA Diamond, state of the art at release
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Open-weights 1.6T MoE with 1M-token context and near-frontier agentic coding at $0.87 per 1M output tokens
$0.87/1M out57%(3)Why: 1M-token context window (8x the 128K of V3.2) with up to 384K output tokens, standard on the official API
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