All models compared

The ten models below represent the frontier of large language model capability as of today. They span four countries, three of them are open-weight, and their blended prices range from under a dollar to nearly eight dollars per million tokens. The comparison matrix covers every ordered pair: 90 head-to-head pages in total, each with per-benchmark scores, workload recommendations, and a plain-English verdict computed from the numbers.

The selection is curated to keep the matrix focused on models a builder would actually consider for production work. It includes the top reasoning models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Moonshot AI, the leading open-weight contender from DeepSeek, the strongest Chinese closed models from Alibaba and Zhipu, and xAI's Grok. The full list refreshes when the underlying leaderboard data changes.