Best AI for coding
For generating, fixing and explaining code. Gemini 4 Carbon has the highest quality score this week.
Updated 14 November 2026. Top 15 of 64 ranked models.
Statistically tied for first. The order inside this group is not meaningful.
- Gemini 4 Carbon Google
Highest quality score among models with enough votes.
99.4 $4.00 per 1M tokens - Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic
Within the margin of error of the top model.
98.8 $8.00 per 1M tokens - GPT-6 Astra OpenAI
Within the margin of error of the top model.
98.4 $20 per 1M tokens - Gemini 4 Argon Google
Within the margin of error of the top model.
97.5 $4.00 per 1M tokens - GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI
Within the margin of error of the top model.
97.1 $4.00 per 1M tokens
- Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic
Quality score 95.9 out of 100.
95.9 $20 per 1M tokens - Muse Wonder Meta
Within the margin of error of the top model.
94.8 $8.00 per 1M tokens - Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
Within the margin of error of the top model.
94.7 $20 per 1M tokens - Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
Quality score 94.7 out of 100.
94.7 $10 per 1M tokens - Kimi K3 Moonshot AI
Quality score 94.4 out of 100.
94.4 $4.14 per 1M tokens - Muse Spark 1.3 Meta
Quality score 94.0 out of 100.
94.0 $2.00 per 1M tokens - Kimi K3.1 Pro Moonshot AI
Within the margin of error of the top model.
93.9 $4.00 per 1M tokens - MiMo V2.6 Pro Xiaomi
Within the margin of error of the top model.
92.9 $0.54 per 1M tokens - Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba
Quality score 92.1 out of 100.
92.1 $3.00 per 1M tokens - Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic
Quality score 91.8 out of 100.
91.8 $4.00 per 1M tokens
Best value for money
Quality and price together: 60% quality score, 40% price compared with the other models here. Prices are list prices per million tokens, weighted 3 parts input to 1 part output.
- GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai
Strong quality at one of the lowest prices.
93.3 $0.050 per 1M tokens
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek
Strong quality at one of the lowest prices.
92.9 $0.089 per 1M tokens - MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi
Strong quality at one of the lowest prices.
89.4 $0.17 per 1M tokens - MiMo V2.6 Pro Xiaomi
Strong quality at one of the lowest prices.
88.4 $0.54 per 1M tokens - GPT-6 Luna OpenAI
Strong quality at one of the lowest prices.
83.8 $0.20 per 1M tokens
How this ranking works
The quality score (0 to 100) is a model's percentile in blind, side-by-side votes from people comparing anonymous answers. Models whose results overlap within the margin of error are shown as tied. A model rated by few people is labelled "Limited data" and can't take first place until more votes come in.
Source: Arena Leaderboard Dataset (lmarena-ai), CC BY 4.0; Prices: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/models).