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Best LLMs for Coding (2026)

These are the strongest LLMs for writing code, refactoring, and answering programming questions, based on the LMArena coding category. Arena Elo comes from real human side-by-side comparisons, which makes it harder to game than synthetic benchmarks like HumanEval. Pricing is pulled from OpenRouter so you can pick the model that fits your budget.

Top Pick

Anthropic: Claude Fable 5

Arena Elo: text + coding

#1Elo 1563

Input / 1M

$10.00

Output / 1M

$50.00

Blended (4:1 in:out): $18.00/1M

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Best Value

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro

Pareto knee, $0.522/1M blended

#17Elo 1520

Input / 1M

$0.435

Output / 1M

$0.870

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Recommended

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5

Frontier middle pick, $0.168/1M blended

#57Elo 1490

Input / 1M

$0.140

Output / 1M

$0.280

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All matching models (127)

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Rank	Model	Elo	Value	In / 1M	Output	Votes
#1	Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 claude-fable-5	1563	1438	$10.00	$50.00	1,126
#2	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (thinking) claude-opus-4-7-thinking	1553	1458	$5.00	$25.00	9,252
#3	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (thinking) claude-opus-4-6-thinking	1551	1456	$5.00	$25.00	11,769
#6	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (thinking) claude-opus-4-8-thinking	1541	1445	$5.00	$25.00	3,501
#8	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 (thinking-32k) claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32k	1530	1435	$5.00	$25.00	7,622
#9	Z.ai: GLM 5.1 glm-5.1	1529	1514	$0.980	$3.08	4,538
#10	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 claude-sonnet-4-6	1527	1454	$3.00	$15.00	10,802
#11	Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (max) glm-5.2 (max)	1526	1506	$1.00	$4.00	913
#12	Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max qwen3.7-max-preview	1526	1502	$1.25	$3.75	1,133
#14	Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview gemini-3.1-pro-preview	1523	1463	$2.00	$12.00	16,359
#16	OpenAI: GPT-5.4 (high) gpt-5.4-high	1521	1451	$2.50	$15.00	10,857
#17	Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro mimo-v2.5-pro	1520	1549	$0.435	$0.870	7,282
#18	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (thinking-32k) claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-thinking-32k	1520	1447	$3.00	$15.00	19,323
#19	OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (high) gpt-5.5-high	1519	1419	$5.00	$30.00	7,700
#21	OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat gpt-5.2-chat-latest-20260210	1515	1453	$1.75	$14.00	9,187
#31	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 kimi-k2.6	1510	1501	$0.660	$3.50	6,984
#32	Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview qwen3.6-max-preview	1509	1477	$1.04	$6.24	1,553
#33	Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview gemini-3-flash	1509	1509	$0.500	$3.00	6,387
#35	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash gemini-3.5-flash	1506	1458	$1.50	$9.00	3,043
#36	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 claude-opus-4-1-20250805	1505	1362	$15.00	$75.00	15,518
#37	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 minimax-m3	1505	1537	$0.300	$1.20	3,174
#41	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 (thinking) kimi-k2.5-thinking	1503	1518	$0.375	$2.02	12,764
#42	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro deepseek-v4-pro	1502	1531	$0.435	$0.870	8,475
#46	Z.ai: GLM 5 glm-5	1497	1504	$0.600	$1.92	5,911
#47	OpenAI: GPT-5.3 Chat gpt-5.3-chat-latest	1497	1435	$1.75	$14.00	8,808
#49	OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini (high) gpt-5.4-mini-high	1496	1478	$0.750	$4.50	10,646
#50	Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B qwen3.5-397b-a17b	1494	1504	$0.385	$2.45	12,124
#52	Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus qwen3.6-plus	1493	1512	$0.325	$1.95	8,769
#55	OpenAI: GPT-5.1 (high) gpt-5.1-high	1490	1443	$1.25	$10.00	8,205
#57	Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 mimo-v2.5	1490	1567	$0.140	$0.280	7,820
#58	OpenAI: GPT-5.2 (high) gpt-5.2-high	1489	1427	$1.75	$14.00	11,752
#61	xAI: Grok 4.3 grok-4.3	1487	1470	$1.25	$2.50	7,969
#63	Z.ai: GLM 4.7 glm-4.7	1486	1503	$0.400	$1.75	2,413
#66	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek-v4-flash	1480	1576	$0.090	$0.180	8,206
#68	MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 minimax-m2.7	1479	1519	$0.250	$1.00	10,023
#70	Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 claude-haiku-4-5-20251001	1479	1453	$1.00	$5.00	22,112
#71	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 mistral-medium-3.5	1478	1435	$1.50	$7.50	3,006
#74	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 (thinking) deepseek-v3.2-exp-thinking	1475	1535	$0.229	$0.343	1,919
#74	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (thinking) deepseek-v3.2-exp-thinking	1475	1527	$0.270	$0.410	1,919
#75	Qwen: Qwen3 Max qwen3-max-preview	1475	1460	$0.780	$3.90	2,040
#75	Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking qwen3-max-preview	1475	1460	$0.780	$3.90	2,040
#79	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 (thinking-32k) claude-sonnet-4-20250514-thinking-32k	1473	1400	$3.00	$15.00	6,405
#83	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 kimi-k2-0905-preview	1468	1469	$0.600	$2.50	2,241
#85	OpenAI: GPT-5 (high) gpt-5-high	1467	1420	$1.25	$10.00	6,358
#86	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct	1466	1513	$0.200	$0.880	2,316
#89	Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro gemini-2.5-pro	1465	1418	$1.25	$10.00	26,567
#89	Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 gemini-2.5-pro	1465	1418	$1.25	$10.00	26,567
#90	DeepSeek: R1 0528 deepseek-r1-0528	1465	1473	$0.500	$2.15	2,729
#91	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 claude-opus-4-20250514	1464	1321	$15.00	$75.00	7,899
#92	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (thinking) deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking	1464	1503	$0.270	$0.950	636
#93	OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat gpt-5-chat	1463	1416	$1.25	$10.00	5,987
#96	OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano (high) gpt-5.4-nano-high	1460	1499	$0.200	$1.25	10,783
#99	Z.ai: GLM 4.6 glm-4.6	1459	1475	$0.430	$1.74	7,482
#100	Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B qwen3.5-122b-a10b	1459	1480	$0.260	$2.08	7,816
#101	OpenAI: o3 o3-2025-04-16	1459	1408	$2.00	$8.00	11,750
#103	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview	1458	1488	$0.250	$1.50	13,244
#103	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview	1458	1488	$0.250	$1.50	13,244
#106	OpenAI: GPT-4.1 gpt-4.1-2025-04-14	1457	1406	$2.00	$8.00	9,314
#108	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking (thinking) qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking	1456	1469	$0.260	$2.60	1,625
#109	Z.ai: GLM 4.5 glm-4.5	1455	1458	$0.600	$2.20	4,770
#111	Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B qwen3.5-27b	1451	1484	$0.195	$1.56	7,536
#112	StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash step-3.5-flash	1449	1537	$0.090	$0.300	11,088
#116	Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct	1446	1499	$0.090	$1.10	4,789
#116	Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct	1446	n/a	n/a	n/a	4,789
#118	MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 minimax-m2.5	1445	1497	$0.150	$0.900	10,915
#119	DeepSeek: R1 deepseek-r1	1445	1442	$0.700	$2.50	2,317
#121	Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507	1442	1542	$0.100	$0.100	1,610
#122	Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking trinity-large-preview	1441	1486	$0.250	$0.800	7,647
#123	Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507	1440	1551	$0.048	$0.193	4,658
#124	MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 minimax-m2.1-preview	1439	1477	$0.290	$0.950	3,427
#129	OpenAI: o3 Mini (high) o3-mini-high	1435	1410	$1.10	$4.40	2,596
#129	OpenAI: o3 Mini High (high) o3-mini-high	1435	1410	$1.10	$4.40	2,596
#130	Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B qwen3.5-35b-a3b	1435	1485	$0.140	$1.00	8,001
#133	Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B qwen3-235b-a22b	1434	1447	$0.455	$1.82	4,340
#134	OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14	1434	1453	$0.400	$1.60	6,917
#138	OpenAI: o4 Mini o4-mini-2025-04-16	1432	1408	$1.10	$4.40	8,719
#138	OpenAI: o4 Mini High o4-mini-2025-04-16	1432	1408	$1.10	$4.40	8,719
#141	OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (high) gpt-5-mini-high	1430	1452	$0.250	$2.00	5,496
#145	Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air glm-4.5-air	1427	1483	$0.130	$0.850	6,104
#146	Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash gemini-2.5-flash	1424	1437	$0.300	$2.50	25,914
#147	Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash glm-4.7-flash	1424	1513	$0.060	$0.400	2,689
#148	Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking (thinking) qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking	1421	1484	$0.098	$0.780	2,676
#150	Z.ai: GLM 4.6V glm-4.6v	1418	1456	$0.300	$0.900	534
#151	OpenAI: o1 o1-2024-12-17	1417	1279	$15.00	$60.00	5,123
#152	MiniMax: MiniMax M1 minimax-m1	1416	1428	$0.400	$2.20	6,486
#159	Prime Intellect: INTELLECT-3 intellect-3	1410	1452	$0.200	$1.10	973
#161	Qwen: Qwen3 32B qwen3-32b	1408	1500	$0.080	$0.280	513
#163	Z.ai: GLM 4.5V glm-4.5v	1404	1412	$0.600	$1.80	990
#169	Inception: Mercury 2 mercury-2	1397	1443	$0.250	$0.750	769
#174	OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b gpt-oss-120b	1391	1508	$0.039	$0.180	6,490
#174	OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free) gpt-oss-120b	1391	n/a	n/a	n/a	6,490
#180	Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B qwen3-30b-a3b	1387	1458	$0.120	$0.500	4,527
#185	MiniMax: MiniMax M2 minimax-m2	1385	1424	$0.255	$1.00	1,544
#188	OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano (high) gpt-5-nano-high	1382	1475	$0.050	$0.400	1,684
#192	OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14	1374	1454	$0.100	$0.400	807
#196	OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b gpt-oss-20b	1370	1499	$0.029	$0.140	2,167
#196	OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (free) gpt-oss-20b	1370	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,167
#205	AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think olmo-3-32b-think	1364	1430	$0.150	$0.500	1,056
#210	OpenAI: GPT-4o gpt-4o-2024-05-13	1361	1301	$2.50	$10.00	7,318
#210	OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-05-13) gpt-4o-2024-05-13	1361	1276	$5.00	$15.00	7,318
#210	OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06) gpt-4o-2024-05-13	1361	1301	$2.50	$10.00	7,318
#210	OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-11-20) gpt-4o-2024-05-13	1361	1301	$2.50	$10.00	7,318
#212	Google: Gemma 3 27B gemma-3-27b-it	1358	1460	$0.080	$0.160	8,073
#218	Mistral Large 2407 mistral-large-2407	1354	1309	$2.00	$6.00	7,589
#222	IBM: Granite 4.1 8B granite-4.1-8b	1352	1474	$0.050	$0.100	1,084
#224	OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18	1349	1411	$0.150	$0.600	10,927
#224	OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18	1349	1411	$0.150	$0.600	10,927
#225	OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09	1347	1233	$10.00	$30.00	17,104
#225	OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo Preview gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09	1347	1233	$10.00	$30.00	17,104
#228	Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct llama-3.3-70b-instruct	1345	1430	$0.100	$0.320	8,746
#228	Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free) llama-3.3-70b-instruct	1345	n/a	n/a	n/a	8,746
#237	Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct llama-3.1-70b-instruct	1333	1373	$0.400	$0.400	9,389
#245	Google: Gemma 3 12B gemma-3-12b-it	1317	1432	$0.050	$0.150	543
#249	Mistral: Mistral Small 3 mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501	1313	1438	$0.050	$0.080	2,083
#253	Google: Gemma 3n 4B gemma-3n-e4b-it	1309	1423	$0.060	$0.120	3,531
#257	Microsoft: Phi 4 phi-4	1307	1416	$0.065	$0.140	3,305
#260	Google: Gemma 2 27B gemma-2-27b-it	1305	1324	$0.650	$0.650	12,088
#262	Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku claude-3-haiku-20240307	1300	1335	$0.250	$1.25	20,898
#269	Cohere: Command R (08-2024) command-r-08-2024	1281	1342	$0.150	$0.600	1,783
#271	Cohere: Command R+ (08-2024) command-r-plus-08-2024	1280	1219	$2.50	$10.00	1,675
#276	Google: Gemma 3 4B gemma-3-4b-it	1274	1397	$0.050	$0.100	605
#288	Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct llama-3.1-8b-instruct	1260	1425	$0.020	$0.030	8,582
#291	Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct llama-3-8b-instruct	1252	1338	$0.140	$0.140	18,374
#293	Google Gemini Pro Latest gemini-pro	1248	1188	$2.00	$12.00	678
#326	Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct llama-3.2-3b-instruct	1176	1272	$0.051	$0.335	1,351
#326	Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) llama-3.2-3b-instruct	1176	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,351
#341	Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct llama-3.2-1b-instruct	1148	1269	$0.027	$0.201	1,346

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