Live ranking
Best AI models for chat right now
These are the models that hold up best for general assistant and chat work today, balancing measured quality against what you actually pay per million tokens.
Top 20
Ranked mostly on WM Score and benchmark quality, with input price as a tie-breaker.
| # | Model | In $/M | Out $/M | Context | WM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Openai | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | 93 |
| 2 | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 Xai | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | 90 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M | 93 |
| 4 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1.0M | 89 |
| 5 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | $0.375 | $1.88 | 1.0M | 88 |
| 6 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Openai | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.1M | 89 |
| 7 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Openai | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M | 87 |
| 8 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Meta | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 9 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 Deepseek | $0.074 | $0.148 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 10 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 Deepseek | $0.660 | $1.98 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 11 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Z Ai | $0.476 | $1.50 | 1.0M | 85 |
| 12 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 13 | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 Xai | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | 85 |
| 14 | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M | 82 |
| 15 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M | 86 |
| 16 | Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) Google Ai Studio | $0.500 | $3.00 | 66K | 79 |
| 17 | Z.ai: GLM 5 Z Ai | $0.600 | $1.92 | 205K | 81 |
| 18 | Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Google | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M | 81 |
| 19 | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Openai | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M | 82 |
| 20 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M | 85 |
How this list is built
Ranked mostly on WM Score and benchmark quality, with input price as a tie-breaker. Prices come from live host listings, not marketing pages, and every model here is currently being served by at least one provider. The order changes when prices or benchmark results change.