Best for coding: the full table
Highest coding category score.
Looking for the short answer? Best LLM for coding (October 2026) has the top pick, best value and open-weights options. This page is every qualifying model, ranked.
As of 24 Oct 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic leads this list (82.2), ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 (75.0). Best LLM for coding (October 2026)
167 models qualify · data as of 24 Oct 2026
- 1Claude Opus 5.5 (max)82.2
- 2Claude Fable 5.1 (max)75
- 3GPT-6 Astra (max)74
- 4Claude Fable 5 (max)73.8
- 5Muse Wonder Full (max)72.3
- 6GPT-6.1 Sol (max)72
- 7Gemini 4 Argon (high)71.8
- 8Claude Opus 5 (max)70.2
- 9GPT-6 Sol (max)67.3
- 10Muse Spark 1.166.3
- 11Muse Wonder (max)66.2
- 12GPT-5.6 Sol (max)65.9
- 13GPT-5.6 Terra (max)65.1
- 14Muse Spark65
- 15GPT-5.4 (xhigh)64.6
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| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Claude Opus 5.5max | 82.2 | 72.6 | $8.00 | 96 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5.1max | 75 | 70.5 | $20.00 | 68 |
| 3 |  GPT-6 Astramax | 74 | 70.4 | $20.00 | 58 |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5max | 73.8 | 69.3 | $20.00 | 70 |
| 5 |  Muse Wonder Fullmax | 72.3 | 70.7 | – | – |
| 6 | GPT-6.1 Solmax | 72 | 69.9 | $4.00 | 55 |
| 7 |  Gemini 4 Argonhigh | 71.8 | 70.8 | $4.00 | 79 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 5max | 70.2 | 68.8 | $10.00 | 57 |
| 9 | GPT-6 Solmax | 67.3 | 66.4 | $4.00 | 103 |
| 10 | Muse Spark 1.1 | 66.3 | 62.5 | $2.00 | 200 |
| 11 | Muse Wondermax | 66.2 | 67.5 | $8.00 | 145 |
| 12 | GPT-5.6 Solmax | 65.9 | 68.0 | $8.00 | 86 |
| 13 | GPT-5.6 Terramax | 65.1 | 64.4 | $4.50 | 126 |
| 14 | Muse Spark | 65 | 64.3 | – | – |
| 15 | GPT-5.4xhigh | 64.6 | 64.7 | $5.63 | 96 |
| 16 |  Kimi K3maxopen ↗ | 64.6 | 64.7 | $6.00 | 39 |
| 17 |  Qwen3.8 Maxmax | 64.6 | 63.3 | $3.00 | 43 |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.3max | 64.5 | 67.1 | $2.00 | 116 |
| 19 | Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh | 63.5 | 64.4 | $1.50 | 141 |
| 20 | Gemini 3.7 Flashhigh | 63 | 63.5 | $1.50 | 88 |
| 21 |  GLM 5.3 Flashopen ↗ | 62.9 | 62.6 | $0.238 | 69 |
| 22 | GPT-5.2xhigh | 62.9 | 60.7 | $4.81 | 75 |
| 23 | Claude Opus 4.6high | 62.8 | 62.7 | $10.00 | 40 |
| 24 | GLM 5.2maxopen ↗ | 62.3 | 62.3 | $2.15 | 91 |
| 25 | GLM 5.3maxopen ↗ | 62 | 63.5 | $2.15 | 85 |
| 26 | o3 | 61.8 | 59.5 | $3.50 | 132 |
| 27 |  MiMo-V2.6-Proopen ↗ | 61.6 | 64.0 | $0.548 | 54 |
| 28 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 61.4 | 63.3 | $10.00 | 60 |
| 29 | GPT-5.5 Instant | 61.3 | 58.0 | $11.25 | 156 |
| 30 | GPT-5.5xhigh | 61.2 | 66.1 | $11.25 | 86 |
| 31 |  Grok 4 | 61 | 58.0 | $6.00 | 78 |
| 32 | GPT-5.3-Codexxhigh | 60.9 | 63.8 | $4.81 | 84 |
| 33 | Claude Sonnet 5high | 60.7 | 60.2 | $4.00 | 70 |
| 34 | Gemini 3.5 Flashhigh | 59.9 | 63.1 | $3.38 | 222 |
| 35 | MiMo-V2.6-Flashopen ↗ | 59.8 | 59.7 | $0.175 | 60 |
| 36 |  Mistral Large 4open | 59.7 | 56.6 | $2.06 | 93 |
| 37 | Qwen3.7max | 59.4 | 60.6 | $3.75 | 201 |
| 38 |  DeepSeek R1 0528open ↗ | 58.9 | 49.5 | $2.08 | 33 |
| 39 | GPT-6 Lunamax | 58.8 | 60.0 | $0.200 | 136 |
| 40 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flashmaxopen ↗ | 58.7 | 61.2 | $0.525 | 181 |
| 41 | GPT-5-Codexhigh | 58.6 | 57.5 | $3.44 | 166 |
| 42 | DeepSeek V4 Promaxopen ↗ | 58.3 | 60.8 | $1.98 | 93 |
| 43 | GPT-5.4 Minixhigh | 58.2 | 56.3 | $1.69 | 241 |
| 44 | Qwen3 Maxmax | 58 | 52.8 | $0.628 | – |
| 45 | Gemini 3 Pro | 57.9 | 60.4 | – | – |
| 46 | o3-mini | 57.3 | 49.9 | $1.93 | 190 |
| 47 | Gemini 3.6 Flashhigh | 57.2 | 62.0 | $1.50 | 202 |
| 48 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | 57 | 60.6 | $4.50 | 132 |
| 49 | Grok 4.5high | 56.9 | 59.3 | $3.00 | 72 |
| 50 | Qwen3.6 Maxmax | 56.7 | 62.3 | $2.92 | – |
| 51 |  Step 5 Previewopen | 56.3 | 60.4 | $1.43 | 224 |
| 52 | DeepSeek V4 Flashmaxopen ↗ | 56.3 | 59.4 | $0.175 | 150 |
| 53 | GPT-5high | 56.1 | 57.9 | $3.44 | 91 |
| 54 | GPT-5.6 Lunamax | 56 | 59.9 | $0.450 | 129 |
| 55 | Kimi K2.5thinkingopen ↗ | 55.9 | 57.6 | $1.20 | 66 |
| 56 | o1 | 55.9 | 53.1 | $26.25 | – |
| 57 | GPT-5.1high | 55.7 | 57.7 | $3.44 | 111 |
| 58 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 55.5 | 57.1 | $6.00 | 44 |
| 59 | DeepSeek V3 0324open ↗ | 55.4 | 53.5 | – | – |
| 60 | Claude Sonnet 4.5high | 55.3 | 58.1 | $6.00 | 38 |