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Six APIs, ranked by capability. Filter by task or price. Updated weekly.
Latest Mythos-class model for long-horizon coding and knowledge work. Same $10/$50 list as Fable 5 with cache reads at $0.25 — Anthropic estimates typical workloads ~25% cheaper. Code Arena WebDev lists claude-fable-5.1-max at 1765.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 — agentic and coding upgrade over 1.2, using ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens in Meta's own comparisons. Cheapest tracked API at $1.25/$4.25 with 1M context.
Anthropic's July 2026 successor to Opus 4.8: 96% on SWE-bench Verified, doubles Frontier-Bench performance, and scores 3x the next-best model on ARC-AGI-3 — at the same $5/$25 price.
Dominates reasoning and multimodal tasks. Scored 77% on ARC-AGI-2 — double its predecessor — and leads on graduate-level science benchmarks.
Alibaba's 2.4T MoE flagship (95B active): long-horizon coding and professional work at $2/$6 with 1M context. Arena ~1480 Elo — launch sample cooled below Gemini 3.1 Pro.
xAI's current flagship for chat and code at $2/$6 with 500K context. Arena grok-4.6-high ~1461 Elo overall; Code Arena WebDev 1629 now sits well behind Claude Fable 5.1.
LMArena text-overall Elo with list price and context. Updated weekly.
No API key, no usage limits, no data leaving your machine. The best open-weight models ranked by Elo.
Google's Gemma 4 31B ranks #3 among all open-weight models on LMArena with an Elo of 1451 — beating models 20x its size. Fits a single RTX 4090 at Q4_K_M and ships Apache 2.0.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 generation dense flagship, replacing the Qwen3 32B card at a smaller footprint: 27B parameters, 262K native context, and hybrid tool-use. Fits a single RTX 4090 at Q4 (~15.3 GiB weights); community-reported 65 tok/s decode. Apache 2.0.
The strongest model that comfortably fits a single 24 GB GPU. Adds vision and tool-use over 3.1, tightly instruction-tuned, and Apache 2.0 with no usage restrictions — a dependable all-rounder for local daily use.
A 30B mixture-of-experts with only ~3B parameters active per token. We measured 44.7 tok/s on a two-GPU budget cluster — faster than the dense 8B while packing 4x the capacity. Apache 2.0.
OpenAI's Apache 2.0 MoE (~21B total / ~3.6B active). Native MXFP4 fits ~16 GB; we measured 53.73 tok/s on the budget two-GPU cluster — the fastest open-weight card we track. Arena ~1317 Elo.
The model that makes pooling two budget GPUs worth it: ~10.5 GB of weights fit neither of our 8 GB cards alone, but the cluster ran it at a measured 19.3 tok/s — 12x faster than single-card CPU offload. Apache 2.0.
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Claude Fable 5.1 keeps the $10/$50 list but cuts cache reads 75%. Code Arena WebDev lists it at 1765, well ahead of Grok 4.6.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Sol's price 20% the same week it topped Terminal-Bench 2.1 against Opus 5 — an invoice argument for a model helloai's Elo-gated table still leaves off the board.
Grok Bot, launched August 11, is a cloud teammate with its own VM. The local grok CLI is what can actually operate a production checkout like helloai.