Best AI Models for Coding

GLM-5.3 Flash is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for long-horizon software engineering, complex reasoning, and workflows that combine text with visual context.

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable widely released model, designed for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. It features a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, always-on adaptive thinking, and strong multimodal capabilities.

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work such as long code refactors, front-end development, and finance and analysis tasks. It features a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, always-on adaptive thinking, and strong multimodal capabilities, and tends to be more concise in its plans and summaries.

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable reasoning model, building on Opus 4.5 with enhanced performance across complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon tasks. It features a 1M token context window, improved multimodal capabilities, and stronger robustness to prompt injection.

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model for complex reasoning and agentic coding. It features a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, adaptive thinking, and strong multimodal capabilities.

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports long-horizon agentic work, complex multi-step coding, and memory-driven tasks where coherence over extended sessions matters. It features a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, adaptive thinking, and strong multimodal capabilities.

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) is a speed-optimized variant of Anthropic's most capable generally available Opus model, offering the same 1M token context window and strong performance across long-horizon agentic work and complex coding — with lower latency.

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's most capable model in the Opus family. It delivers major gains over Opus 4.8 in agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-horizon reasoning, with a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, adaptive thinking, and strong multimodal capabilities.

Claude Opus 5 (Fast) is a speed-optimized variant of Anthropic's most capable Opus model, offering the same 1M token context window and strong performance across agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-horizon reasoning — with lower latency.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's best combination of speed and intelligence, offering strong performance on coding, reasoning, and general tasks with excellent speed and cost efficiency. It features a 1M token context window and 64K max output tokens.

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's latest Sonnet model, substantially improving on Sonnet 4.6 in coding and agentic work and reaching near-Opus quality on many tasks. It features a 1M token context window, adaptive thinking, and strong document and vision understanding.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized 284B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 13B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. Tuned for fast inference and high-throughput workloads while maintaining strong reasoning and coding performance.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized 284B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 13B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. Tuned for fast inference and high-throughput workloads while maintaining strong reasoning and coding performance.

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a 1.6T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 49B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. Built for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic workflows with a hybrid attention system for efficient long-context processing.

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a 1.6T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 49B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. Built for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic workflows with a hybrid attention system for efficient long-context processing.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 552B backbone parameters (8B active on input, 16B on output) and a 1M-token context window. It natively processes images and text, with strong reasoning, coding, and agentic performance.

Kimi K3 is an ultra-large-scale, open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback.

Qwen 3.6 Plus Uncensored is Alibaba's latest flagship reasoning model with exceptional performance across coding, reasoning, and general knowledge tasks. Features mixed reasoning, function calling, and multimodal input support.

Qwen 3.7 Max is the largest model in the Qwen 3.7 series, with deep thinking, function calling, prompt caching, and multimodal input support for images and video. It excels at programming, office and productivity tasks, and long-running autonomous agent workflows.

Qwen 3.7 Plus is Alibaba's latest flagship reasoning model with exceptional performance across coding, reasoning, and general knowledge tasks. Features mixed reasoning, function calling, and multimodal input support.

Qwen 3.8 Flash is the latest multimodal model in the Qwen family, pairing strong reasoning and generation with remarkable speed. It natively supports a 1M-token context window, so it can process long documents, entire codebases, and complex conversations in a single pass. It excels at coding assistance, agentic workflows, and visual understanding, accepting text, image, and video input, and its thinking mode can be turned on or off per request.

Qwen 3.8 Max is Alibaba's flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model, with major gains over Qwen 3.7 Max in software engineering and office-productivity workflows and strong long-horizon, multi-agent performance. It accepts both text and vision-language input (images and video), operates in thinking mode only, and supports a 1M-token context window.

MiMo-V2.5 is Xiaomi's native omnimodal model with strong agentic capabilities, supporting text, image, video, and audio understanding in a unified architecture. Built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts backbone with 310B total and 15B active parameters, it delivers long-context reasoning up to 1M tokens, function calling, and multimodal perception.

GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves on GLM-5.2 in coding and in the balance between performance and token efficiency.

MiniMax-M3 preview is a 1.4T-parameter frontier model from MiniMax for coding, agentic workflows, and complex reasoning, served at fp8 with a 512K context window.

Inkling is a general-purpose multimodal model from Thinking Machines Lab that accepts text, image, and audio inputs and generates text. It is a 66-layer sparse MoE (975B total / 41B active) with hybrid local/global attention, 512K context, and variable thinking effort — suited for chat, coding, tool use, and agentic workflows. Video input is not supported on Venice.

GLM 5.2 running in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Z.AI's flagship model for long-horizon tasks with enhanced reasoning and project-level engineering context, with hardware attestation evidence available for independent verification.

Grok 4.5 is xAI's intelligent coding model for agentic software engineering and workflow tasks, with function calling, structured outputs, and a 500K-token context window.

Grok 4.6 is xAI's multimodal chat and reasoning model with function calling, structured outputs, adjustable reasoning effort (low/medium/high/xhigh), and a 500K-token context window.

GPT-5.3 Codex is OpenAI specialized coding model built on GPT-5.3, optimized for advanced software development, code generation, and technical problem-solving.

Qwen 3.8 2.4T is Alibaba's open-weight 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model (95B active), with major gains in software engineering, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks. It is text-only, requires thinking mode, and supports a 262K-token context window.

Qwen 3.8 27B is a native vision-language dense model with 27B parameters. It improves coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks, with flexible thinking control and image and video understanding. It supports a native 262K-token context window.

A coding model optimized for real-world development environments, with reliable tool use in common IDEs such as Claude Code. It delivers strong front-end performance and supports Skills.

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AIs most advanced open reasoning model, featuring trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 32B active parameters and 256K context windows.

Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model from Moonshot AI with 1T total parameters and 32B active parameters. It excels at long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, agent swarm orchestration, and proactive autonomous execution with 256K context windows.

Kimi K2.7 Code is Moonshot AI's coding-focused agentic model built on Kimi K2.6, with 1T total parameters and 32B active parameters. It always operates in thinking mode, supports text and image input, and targets long-horizon software engineering, agentic task decomposition, and multi-turn coding workflows with 256K context.

Turbo variant of Qwen3 Coder 480B, optimized for faster inference on code tasks.

Qwen 3.5 35B A3B is a highly efficient MoE model with 35B total parameters and only 3B active parameters. It surpasses the larger Qwen3-235B-A22B while being 6.7x smaller, excelling at reasoning, coding, and general knowledge tasks.

The Qwen 3.6 27B native vision-language dense model builds upon the 3.5-27B version, with key improvements in agentic coding capabilities and enhanced STEM reasoning and inference skills. In the vision modality, it demonstrates significant advances in spatial intelligence, object localization, and detection, while video understanding, document OCR, and visual agent capabilities continue to improve steadily.

Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is a fast mixture-of-experts model with 35B total parameters and ~3B active per token. Strong at agentic coding, STEM reasoning, and tool use, with a native 256K context window.

Qwen3 Coder Next through Amazon Bedrock Mantle with zero retention.

Seed 2.1 Turbo (Dola-Seed-2.1) is ByteDance’s next-generation multimodal model for the coding and agent era, with engineering-grade code delivery, long-horizon agent execution, and upgraded GUI and video understanding. Supports text, image, and video inputs with a 256K context window.

xAI's fast coding model trained specifically for agentic coding, currently in early access.

GLM-5 Turbo is a fast inference model from Z.ai tuned for strong performance in agent-driven environments and production coding workflows.

GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai's first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks with image, video, and text inputs.

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic's frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and reasoning benchmarks, and improved robustness to prompt injection.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's balanced model offering strong performance on coding, reasoning, and general tasks with good speed and cost efficiency.

MiniMax-M2.5 is a state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development with enhanced reasoning capabilities.

MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity with advanced agentic capabilities through multi-agent collaboration.

GLM-5 is the next-generation large language model developed by Zhiyuan AI, featuring significantly enhanced reasoning capabilities, improved instruction following, and support for multiple languages. Supports large context windows for processing extensive text and detailed analysis.

Qwen 3.6 35B A3B FP8 running in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). A fast mixture-of-experts model with ~3B active parameters per token. Hardware attestation evidence is available for independent verification of enclave identity and configuration.