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Top Coding Models in Kilo This Week

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#1
Claude Opus 4.7

by Anthropic

The most capable model for complex planning and orchestration

87.6%SWE-bench Verified
#2

Built for agentic engineering — 256k context, no output limits

256kcontext window
#3
GPT 5.5

by OpenAI

Remarkably detailed and consistent across modes

88.7%SWE-bench Verified
#4
Step 3.5 Flash

by StepFun

Fast and capable model from StepFun — free to use in Kilo

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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with...

#10 code mode38.6 coding index *$3.00/1M

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for fast inference and...

#16 code mode39.8 coding index *$0.10/1M

Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)

Recommended

poolside

Laguna M.1 is the flagship coding agent model from [Poolside](https://poolside.ai), optimized for complex software engineering tasks. Designed for agentic coding workflows, it supports tool calling and reasoning, with a 128K...

#17 code mode$0.00/1M

Z.ai: GLM 5

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading...

#18 code mode$0.60/1M

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

anthropic

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and...

#20 code mode42.9 coding index *$5.00/1M

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

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google

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows. Building on the multimodal foundation...

#23 code mode$2.00/1M

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding,...

#32 code mode43.2 coding index *$0.43/1M

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...

#34 code mode47.6 coding index *$5.00/1M

Z.ai: GLM 5.1

Recommended

z-ai

GLM-5.1 delivers a major leap in coding capability, with particularly significant gains in handling long-horizon tasks. Unlike previous models built around minute-level interactions, GLM-5.1 can work independently and continuously on...

#35 code mode$0.98/1M

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

Recommended

Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...

#36 code mode42.9 coding index *$0.33/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.5

Recommended

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s frontier model designed for complex professional workloads, building on GPT-5.4 with stronger reasoning, higher reliability, and improved token efficiency on hard tasks. It features a 1M+ token...

#38 code mode58.5 coding index *$5.00/1M

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Recommended

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

#39 code mode$0.73/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2. It achieves state-of-the-art results...

#51 code mode$1.75/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.2

openai

GPT-5.2 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger agentic and long context perfomance compared to GPT-5.1. It uses adaptive reasoning to allocate computation dynamically, responding quickly...

#54 code mode$1.75/1M

inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T (free)

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inclusionai

Ring-2.6-1T is a 1T-parameter-scale thinking model with 63B active parameters, built for real-world agent workflows that require both strong capability and operational efficiency. It is optimized for coding agents, tool...

#55 code mode$0.00/1M

inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T (free)

Recommended

inclusionai

Ling-2.6-1T is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI and the company’s trillion-parameter flagship, designed for real-world agents that require fast execution and high efficiency at scale. It uses a “fast...

#60 code mode$0.00/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.4

openai

GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system. It features a 1M+ token context window (922K input, 128K output) with support for...

#65 code mode$2.50/1M

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

google

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool...

#66 code mode$0.50/1M

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Recommended

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

#73 code mode$3.00/1M

Tencent: Hy3 preview (free)

tencent

Hy3 preview is a high-efficiency Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent designed for agentic workflows and production use. It supports configurable reasoning levels across disabled, low, and high modes, allowing it to...

#75 code mode$0.00/1M

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution...

#84 code mode45.0 coding index *$1.50/1M

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7

Recommended

anthropic

Opus 4.7 is the next generation of Anthropic's Opus family, built for long-running, asynchronous agents. Building on the coding and agentic strengths of Opus 4.6, it delivers stronger performance on...

#92 code mode$5.00/1M

Mistral: Devstral 2 2512

Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model supporting a 256K context window. Devstral 2 supports exploring...

#93 code mode$0.40/1M

xAI: Grok Code Fast 1

x-ai

Grok Code Fast 1 is a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding. With reasoning traces visible in the response, developers can steer Grok Code for high-quality...

#98 code mode23.7 coding index *$0.20/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus

Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and...

#100 code mode24.6 coding index *$0.65/1M

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...

29.6 coding index *$1.00/1M

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek-V3.1 Terminus is an update to [DeepSeek V3.1](/deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3.1) that maintains the model's original capabilities while addressing issues reported by users, including language consistency and agent capabilities, further optimizing the model's...

33.7 coding index *$0.27/1M

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash

google

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater...

24.6 coding index *$0.30/1M

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

google

Gemini 3 Pro is Google’s flagship frontier model for high-precision multimodal reasoning, combining strong performance across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using multi-turn tool calling, see our docs here: https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#preserving-reasoning-blocks. It delivers state-of-the-art benchmark results in general reasoning, STEM problem solving, factual QA, and multimodal understanding, including leading scores on LMArena, GPQA Diamond, MathArena Apex, MMMU-Pro, and Video-MMMU. Interactions emphasize depth and interpretability: the model is designed to infer intent with minimal prompting and produce direct, insight-focused responses. Built for advanced development and agentic workflows, Gemini 3 Pro provides robust tool-calling, long-horizon planning stability, and strong zero-shot generation for complex UI, visualization, and coding tasks. It excels at agentic coding (SWE-Bench Verified, Terminal-Bench 2.0), multimodal analysis, and structured long-form tasks such as research synthesis, planning, and interactive learning experiences. Suitable applications include autonomous agents, coding assistants, multimodal analytics, scientific reasoning, and high-context information processing.

46.5 coding index *$2.00/1M

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

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google

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

$0.06/1M

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

Recommended

google

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

$0.00/1M

Google: Gemma 4 31B

google

Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output. Features a 256K token context window, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, native function...

$0.12/1M

inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash (free)

inclusionai

Ling-2.6-flash is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI with 104B total parameters and 7.4B active parameters, designed for real-world agents that require fast responses, strong execution, and high token efficiency....

$0.00/1M

Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1

kwaipilot

KAT-Coder-Pro V1 is KwaiKAT's most advanced agentic coding model in the KAT-Coder series. Designed specifically for agentic coding tasks, it excels in real-world software engineering scenarios, achieving 73.4% solve rate on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark. The model has been optimized for tool-use capability, multi-turn interaction, instruction following, generalization, and comprehensive capabilities through a multi-stage training process, including mid-training, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), and scalable agentic RL.

$0.21/1M

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1

minimax

MiniMax-M2.1 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art large language model optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and modern application development. With only 10 billion activated parameters, it delivers a major jump in real-world...

$0.29/1M

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity. Trained in a diverse range of complex real-world digital working environments, M2.5 builds upon the coding expertise of M2.1...

37.4 coding index *$0.15/1M

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7

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MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement. Built to actively participate in its own evolution, M2.7 integrates advanced agentic capabilities through multi-agent...

$0.28/1M

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B instruction-following model from Mistral AI. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is designed for agentic workflows, coding, and complex...

35.4 coding index *$1.50/1M

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

moonshotai

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...

$0.40/1M

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)

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nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in complex multi-agent applications. Built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer...

$0.00/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.1

openai

GPT-5.1 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger general-purpose reasoning, improved instruction adherence, and a more natural conversational style compared to GPT-5. It uses adaptive reasoning...

44.7 coding index *$1.25/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex

openai

GPT-5.1-Codex is a specialized version of GPT-5.1 optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks....

38.9 coding index *$1.25/1M

OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex

openai

GPT-5.2-Codex is an upgraded version of GPT-5.1-Codex optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks....

$1.75/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

qwen

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...

24.6 coding index *$0.22/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next

Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per...

$0.11/1M

StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash

Step 3.5 Flash is StepFun's most capable open-source foundation model. Built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, it selectively activates only 11B of its 196B parameters per token....

$0.09/1M

xAI: Grok 4.3

Grok 4.3 is a reasoning model from xAI. It accepts text and image inputs with text output, and is suited for agentic workflows, instruction-following tasks, and applications requiring high factual...

41.0 coding index *$1.25/1M

xAI: Grok Build 0.1

Grok Build 0.1 is xAI’s fast coding model trained specifically for agentic software engineering workflows. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is optimized for interactive coding...

$1.00/1M

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Pro

MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios. It is highly adaptable to general agent frameworks like...

$1.00/1M

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5

MiMo-V2.5 is a native omnimodal model by Xiaomi. It delivers Pro-level agentic performance at roughly half the inference cost, while surpassing MiMo-V2-Omni in multimodal perception across image and video understanding...

42.1 coding index *$0.40/1M

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro

MiMo-V2.5-Pro is Xiaomi’s flagship model, delivering strong performance in general agentic capabilities, complex software engineering, and long-horizon tasks, with top rankings on benchmarks such as ClawEval, GDPVal, and SWE-bench Pro....

$1.00/1M

Z.ai: GLM 4.6

z-ai

Compared with GLM-4.5, this generation brings several key improvements: Longer context window: The context window has been expanded from 128K to 200K tokens, enabling the model to handle more complex...

29.5 coding index *$0.43/1M

Z.ai: GLM 4.7

z-ai

GLM-4.7 is Z.ai’s latest flagship model, featuring upgrades in two key areas: enhanced programming capabilities and more stable multi-step reasoning/execution. It demonstrates significant improvements in executing complex agent tasks while...

$0.40/1M

Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash

z-ai

As a 30B-class SOTA model, GLM-4.7-Flash offers a new option that balances performance and efficiency. It is further optimized for agentic coding use cases, strengthening coding capabilities, long-horizon task planning,...

$0.06/1M

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