| Tier |
Model |
SWE-bench |
Input $/1M |
Output $/1M |
| SMART (Flagship) |
Opus 4.5 |
80.9% ✓ |
$5.00 |
$25.00 |
|
GPT-5.2-codex |
80.0% ✓ |
$1.75 |
$14.00 |
|
Gemini 3 Pro |
76.2% ✓ |
$2.00 |
$12.00 |
|
Grok 4 |
unverified |
$3.00 |
$15.00 |
| WORKHORSE (Balanced) |
Gemini 3 Flash |
78.0% ✓ |
$0.50 |
$3.00 |
|
GPT-5.1-codex-max |
77.9% ✓ |
$1.25 |
$10.00 |
|
Sonnet 4.5 |
77.2% ✓ |
$3.00 |
$15.00 |
|
GLM 4.7 |
73.8%* |
$0.60 |
$2.20 |
|
GPT-5.1-codex |
73.7% ✓ |
$1.25 |
$10.00 |
|
DeepSeek V3.2 |
73.1%* |
$0.28 |
$0.42 |
|
Devstral 2 |
72.2% ✓ |
FREE |
FREE |
|
Devstral Small 2 |
68.0% ✓ |
FREE |
FREE |
|
Qwen3-Coder |
~67%* |
$0.30† |
$1.20† |
|
GPT-OSS-120B |
62.4% ✓ |
$0.10 |
$0.50 |
QUICK BUDGET: Haiku 4.5 ($1/$5), Grok 4 Fast ($0.20/$0.50), GPT-5.1-codex-mini, etc.
LEGEND:
- ✓ = Independently verified
-
- † = Price varies by provider
| Provider |
Plans |
3rd Party OAuth Friendly |
| Anthropic |
Free, Pro ($20), Max ($100-200), Team ($25-30/user), Enterprise |
NO! |
| OpenAI |
Free, Go ($5), Plus ($20), Pro ($200), Team ($25-30/user), Enterprise |
Yes? |
| Google |
Free, AI Plus ($5), AI Pro ($20), AI Ultra ($250), Enterprise ($30/user) |
? |
| GitHub Copilot |
Free, Pro ($10), Pro+ ($39), Business ($19/user), Enterprise ($39/user) |
Yes? |
| xAI |
Free, Premium ($8), Premium+ ($40), SuperGrok ($30), SuperGrok Heavy ($300) |
? |
| Cerebras |
Free, Developer (pay-per-token), Code Pro ($50), Code Max ($200), Enterprise |
Yes |
| Service |
Free Tier |
Price/1k |
Accuracy |
Notes |
| Exa.ai |
$10 credit |
$5 + $5 content |
94.9% |
good |
| Tavily |
1,000/month |
$7.50 |
93.3% |
good |
| Brave |
2,000/month |
$5.00 |
- |
good on budget |
| Kagi |
- |
$25.00 |
High |
good results, no content scraper |
| DuckDuckGo |
✓ Free |
Free |
- |
good on budget? |
| Firecrawl |
- |
- |
- |
web scraping |
| Jina AI |
✓ Free |
Free |
- |
free reader API |
