TUE, SEPTEMBER 01, 2026
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26 tools indexed
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ChatGPT (GPT-4o)
OpenAI
Most Popular
The world's most-used AI assistant
🧠 9.5 💻 9.2 🖉 9.2
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Claude 4 (Sonnet/Opus)
Anthropic
Best for Writing
Helpful, harmless, and honest AI
🧠 9.4 💻 9.0 🖉 9.6
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
#1 on SWE-bench Pro (80.4%) — Anthropic's most capable model
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Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Anthropic's mid-tier workhorse — $2/$10/M intro pricing through August 31, 2026
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DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek
Best Value
Open-source model rivaling GPT-4
🧠 9.0 💻 9.2 🖉 8.5
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DeepSeek V4
DeepSeek
$0.44/$0.87/M discounted — most cost-efficient frontier coding model. API migration deadline July 24.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google DeepMind
$1.50/$7.50/M — 17% fewer output tokens, 304 tok/s, Computer Use built in
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Gemini Ultra
Google
Best Multimodal
Google's most capable multimodal model
🧠 9.3 💻 8.8 🖉 8.8
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Gemma 4 (31B / 26B MoE)
Google DeepMind
Best Free Local Model
Byte for byte, the most capable open models
🧠 9.0 💻 9.0 🖉 8.8
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GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
OpenAI's frontier model — AA Index #1, $5/$30/M
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Grok 3
xAI
Witty, real-time AI by Elon Musk's xAI
🧠 8.8 💻 8.5 🖉 8.5
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Grok 4.5
xAI
xAI's frontier model — AA Index #2, $2/$6/M, 64.7% SWE-bench Pro
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
2.8T params, $3/$15/M, AA Index #4 — Design Arena #1 and SWE Marathon #1
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Llama 3.3 (70B)
Meta
Meta's open-source frontier model
🧠 8.5 💻 8.5 🖉 8.2
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Meta AI
Meta
Free AI assistant built into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook
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Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft
Your everyday AI companion
🧠 8.5 💻 8.0 🖉 8.5
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Character.AI
Character.AI
Roleplay and chat with AI characters
🧠 7.5 💻 4.0 🖉 9.0
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Command R+
Cohere
Built for enterprise RAG and agents
🧠 8.0 💻 7.5 🖉 8.0
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Falcon 180B
TII
UAE's open-source frontier model
🧠 8.0 💻 7.8 🖉 7.8
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Gemma 2 (27B)
Google
Google's open-weights research model
🧠 7.8 💻 7.5 🖉 7.8
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Mistral Large
Mistral AI
Frontier model with strong reasoning
🧠 8.5 💻 8.8 🖉 8.2
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Phi-3 Medium
Microsoft
Compact but surprisingly capable
🧠 7.5 💻 7.8 🖉 7.5
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Pi
Inflection
Your personal AI built for empathy
🧠 7.5 💻 4.5 🖉 8.5
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Poe
Quora
Chat with 50+ AI models in one app
🧠 7.5 💻 7.0 🖉 8.2
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Qwen 2.5 (72B)
Alibaba
Alibaba's multilingual open model
🧠 8.5 💻 8.5 🖉 8.2
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Yi-Large
01.AI
Kai-Fu Lee's bilingual frontier model
🧠 8.0 💻 7.8 🖉 8.0