Best LLMs for Coding

AI models ranked by the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, measuring real-world software engineering ability across benchmarks like SWE-bench, SciCode and terminal tasks. The best LLMs for code generation, debugging and agentic development.

1. 1
   claude-fable-5

   ReasoningToolsJSON+159.9 intel · $10.00/M · 48 t/s
   76.5

   Coding
2. 2
   gpt-5.5

   ReasoningToolsJSON+154.8 intel · $5.00/M · 41 t/s
   74.9

   Coding
3. 3
   claude-opus-4.8

   ReasoningToolsJSON+155.7 intel · $5.00/M · 57 t/s
   74.3

   Coding
4. 4
   claude-opus-4.7

   ReasoningToolsJSON+153.5 intel · $5.00/M · 56 t/s
   73.6

   Coding
5. 5
   grok-4.5

   ReasoningToolsJSON+153.8 intel · $2.00/M · 81 t/s
   72.4

   Coding
6. 6
   claude-sonnet-5

   ReasoningToolsJSON+153.4 intel · $2.00/M · 83 t/s
   71.5

   Coding
7. 7
   gpt-5.4

   ReasoningToolsJSON+151.4 intel · $2.50/M · 55 t/s
   71.1

   Coding
8. 8
   gemini-3.5-flash

   ReasoningToolsJSON+250.2 intel · $1.50/M · 171 t/s
   70.1

   Coding
9. 9
   glm-5.2

   ReasoningToolsJSON51.1 intel · $0.900/M · 97 t/s
   68.8

   Coding
10. 10
    gemini-3.1-pro-preview

    ReasoningToolsJSON+246.5 intel · $2.00/M · 92 t/s
    68.8

    Coding
11. 11
    qwen3.7-max

    ReasoningToolsJSON46.0 intel · $1.25/M · 42 t/s
    66.0

    Coding
12. 12
    kimi-k2.6

    ReasoningToolsJSON+144.2 intel · $0.650/M · 153 t/s
    61.8

    Coding
13. 13
    kimi-k2.7-code

    ReasoningToolsJSON+141.9 intel · $0.740/M · 172 t/s
    60.8

    Coding
14. 14
    mimo-v2.5-pro

    ReasoningToolsJSON42.2 intel · $0.435/M · 60 t/s
    60.2

    Coding
15. 15
    deepseek-v4-pro

    ReasoningToolsJSON44.3 intel · $0.435/M · 62 t/s
    59.4

    Coding
16. 16N
    nex-n2-pro

    ReasoningToolsVision41.0 intel · $0.250/M · 82 t/s
    59.1

    Coding
17. 17
    minimax-m3

    ReasoningToolsJSON+144.4 intel · $0.300/M · 75 t/s
    58.6

    Coding
18. 18
    deepseek-v4-flash

    ReasoningToolsJSON40.3 intel · $0.090/M · 83 t/s
    56.2

    Coding
19. 19
    gpt-5.4-nano

    ReasoningToolsJSON+138.2 intel · $0.200/M · 85 t/s
    56.1

    Coding
20. 20
    gpt-5.4-mini

    ReasoningToolsJSON+140.0 intel · $0.750/M · 106 t/s
    56.1

    Coding
21. 21
    qwen3.7-plus

    ReasoningToolsJSON+139.0 intel · $0.320/M · 48 t/s
    55.9

    Coding
22. 22
    glm-5.1

    ReasoningToolsJSON40.2 intel · $0.966/M · 103 t/s
    55.8

    Coding
23. 23
    qwen3.6-plus

    ReasoningToolsJSON+139.6 intel · $0.325/M · 13 t/s
    54.5

    Coding
24. 24
    qwen3.6-27b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+137.1 intel · $0.285/M · 62 t/s
    53.7

    Coding
25. 25
    minimax-m2.7

    ReasoningToolsJSON38.1 intel · $0.180/M · 197 t/s
    52.6

    Coding