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Best overall todayDeepSeek V4 FlashCoding defaultResearched 55d ago#19 of 144 Q/$Freshest updateSonic 3.6New or rechecked this weekResearched today2026-08-27

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Developers

Coding

Claude Fable 5

Excellent

Anthropic's new flagship: 80.3% SWE-bench Pro, 96% SWE-bench Verified on Vals.ai, and 85.0% OSWorld-Verified make it the best production coding pick for non-trivial engineering tasks.

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 4.8

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Developers

Agents

Claude Sonnet 5

Excellent

Anthropic's new default agent: 85.2% SWE-bench Verified, 81.2% OSWorld-Verified, 86.6% BrowseComp multi-agent, and 1M context at the same durable $3/$15 as Sonnet 4.6 ($2/$10 intro through 2026-08-31).

Claude Opus 5

Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Knowledge workers

Writing

Claude Opus 4.7

Excellent

Tops Chatbot Arena (1503) and writes paragraphs you'd ship; understands tone notes and edits like a copy chief.

GPT-5.5

Gemini 3 Pro

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Knowledge workers

Research

Claude Fable 5

Excellent

GDPval-AA ELO 1932 and Anthropic-reported finance, trading, and analytics wins make it the strongest general knowledge-work pick; do not use Mythos-only HLE rows as Fable evidence.

Claude Opus 4.7

GPT-5.5

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Creatives