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Which Model Is Best for Coding?

A cost-performance leaderboard of the models coding agents run on - benchmark scores, real token-mix pricing, latency, and decoding speed.

Models used by coding agents

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  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
    #1
    DF Score 88.1
    Avg task cost $0.486
    Latency
    Context window 1.05M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.5 OpenAI
    #2
    DF Score 85.6
    Avg task cost $0.490
    Latency 118.46s
    Context window 1.05M
  • Google
    Gemini 3.5 Flash Google
    #3
    DF Score 81.8
    Avg task cost $0.620
    Latency 20.59s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI
    #4
    DF Score 81.1
    Avg task cost $0.293
    Latency
    Context window 1.05M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
    #5
    DF Score 79.4
    Avg task cost $2.36
    Latency 239.01s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.4 OpenAI
    #6
    DF Score 76.4
    Avg task cost $0.254
    Latency 113.80s
    Context window 1M
  • Google
    Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) Google
    #7
    DF Score 74.9
    Avg task cost $0.783
    Latency 25.74s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI
    #8
    DF Score 71.1
    Avg task cost $0.151
    Latency
    Context window 1.05M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic
    #9
    DF Score 70.2
    Avg task cost $0.969
    Latency 144.37s
    Context window 1M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic
    #10
    DF Score 70.1
    Avg task cost $1.58
    Latency
    Context window 1M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
    #11
    DF Score 68.6
    Avg task cost $1.16
    Latency 30.05s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI
    #12
    DF Score 62.4
    Avg task cost
    Latency 79.89s
    Context window 400k
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI
    #13
    DF Score 60.2
    Avg task cost $0.183
    Latency 11.87s
    Context window 400k
  • Google
    Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) Google
    #14
    DF Score 57.2
    Avg task cost
    Latency 7.60s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.4 nano OpenAI
    #15
    DF Score 53.9
    Avg task cost
    Latency 4.74s
    Context window 400k
  • Anthropic
    Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
    #16
    DF Score 50.3
    Avg task cost
    Latency 1.16s
    Context window 1M
  • Kimi-K2.7-Code Moonshot AI
    #17
    DF Score 49.3
    Avg task cost
    Latency 2.92s
    Context window 256k
  • Anthropic
    Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic
    #18
    DF Score 45.7
    Avg task cost $0.581
    Latency
    Context window 1M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic
    #19
    DF Score 37.5
    Avg task cost
    Latency 15.04s
    Context window 200k
  • Anthropic
    Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic
    #20
    DF Score 34.1
    Avg task cost
    Latency 1.36s
    Context window 1M
  • Anthropic
    Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic
    #21
    DF Score 28.2
    Avg task cost $0.159
    Latency 0.81s
    Context window 200k
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5 mini OpenAI
    #22
    DF Score 26.9
    Avg task cost
    Latency 85.30s
    Context window 400k
  • OpenAI
    GPT-OSS 120B OpenAI
    #23
    DF Score 16.0
    Avg task cost
    Latency 0.94s
    Context window 131k
  • Google
    Gemini 2.5 Pro Google
    #24
    DF Score 12.2
    Avg task cost
    Latency 22.54s
    Context window 1M
  • OpenAI
    GPT-5.3 Codex Spark OpenAI
    #25
    DF Score
    Avg task cost
    Latency
    Context window
  • Anthropic
    Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Anthropic
    #26
    DF Score
    Avg task cost
    Latency
    Context window 1M
  • MAI-Code-1-Flash Microsoft
    #27
    DF Score
    Avg task cost
    Latency
    Context window
  • Raptor mini GitHub
    #28
    DF Score
    Avg task cost
    Latency
    Context window 400k

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