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Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic

Anthropic's most intelligent model for complex reasoning, coding, and long-context tasks. Best-in-class for agentic workflows.

200K ctx
codingreasoninglong-context

Claude 3 Haiku

FREE

Anthropic

Anthropic's fastest and most compact model. Available free via OpenRouter with generous limits. Great for rapid prototyping.

200K ctx
codingfast

GPT-4o

OpenAI

OpenAI's flagship multimodal model. Handles vision, audio, and text with strong coding and reasoning capabilities.

128K ctx
visionreasoningcoding

GPT-4o

OpenAI

OpenAI's flagship multimodal model. Handles vision, audio, and text with strong coding and reasoning capabilities.

128K ctx
visionreasoningcoding

GPT-4o mini

FREE

OpenAI

Lightweight, fast, and free-tier accessible. Great for everyday coding tasks and API experimentation.

128K ctx
codingfast

Gemini 1.5 Pro

FREE

Google

Google's most capable model with a massive 1M token context window. Excellent for document analysis and long-context reasoning.

1M ctx
long-contextvisionreasoning

Llama 3.1 70B

FREELOCAL

Meta

Meta's powerful open-source model. Runs locally with strong coding and reasoning. Requires 32GB RAM for smooth inference.

128K ctx32GB RAMGPU req.
codingreasoning

Llama 3.1 8B

FREELOCAL

Meta

Lightweight version of Llama 3.1. Runs on consumer hardware with 8GB RAM. Good balance of speed and quality for local use.

128K ctx8GB RAMNo GPU
coding

Mistral 7B

FREELOCAL

Mistral AI

Efficient 7B model with excellent instruction-following. Runs on most consumer hardware and excels at coding tasks.

32K ctx8GB RAMNo GPU
coding

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B

FREELOCAL

Alibaba

Alibaba's specialized coding model. Outperforms GPT-4o on many coding benchmarks while running locally on 16GB RAM.

32K ctx16GB RAMNo GPU
coding

DeepSeek R1

FREE

DeepSeek

Open-source reasoning model that rivals o1 performance. Free via API with exceptional math, logic, and coding capabilities.

64K ctx
reasoningcoding

Phi-3 Mini

FREELOCAL

Microsoft

Microsoft's tiny but capable model. Runs on 4GB RAM with no GPU required. Perfect for offline use on laptops.

128K ctx4GB RAMNo GPU

Kimi k1.5

Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI's reasoning model with very long context. Competitive with o1 on reasoning benchmarks with strong coding ability.

128K ctx
reasoningcodinglong-context

CodeLlama 13B

FREELOCAL

Meta

Meta's dedicated code generation model. Fine-tuned for programming tasks with support for 20+ languages. Runs locally.

16K ctx16GB RAMNo GPU
coding

Gemma 2 9B

FREELOCAL

Google

Google's open model with strong general performance. Efficient enough to run on 8GB RAM with competitive benchmark scores.

8K ctx8GB RAMNo GPU

Claude Opus 4

Anthropic

Anthropic's most powerful model optimized for Claude Code. Exceptional at autonomous coding, multi-step reasoning, and research.

200K ctx
codingreasoninglong-context