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Which AI models are best for coding?

EditionNov 11, 2026Asked on 6 AI surfacesv5.0

AI Visibility Ranking

Brands ordered by GenRank score for this question.

DirectionalQuestion-level figures rest on at most 6 answers per brand, so treat them as direction, not a verdict; the category ranking is the number to judge by. Scores are for the week of 2026-11-08.

RankBrandNamed byScore
1Claude Opus 5.54/671.1
2Claude Fable 5.23/639.8
3Claude Sonnet4/634.4
4Claude Fable 5.12/630.5
5Anthropic Claude (Sonnet / Opus)2/627.0
6GPT-5.6 Sol2/626.7
7GPT-6.1 Sol2/626.0
8Gemini 4 Carbon2/625.7
9Claude Opus3/624.8
10GPT-6 Astra3/621.9

Sources these answers cited

The sites each surface's answer cited this week. The logos are the surfaces that cited the site.

SourceCited by
kilo.aiKilo - Best AI Coding Models 2026 | Live AI Leaderboard3 surfaces
benchlm.aiBest LLM for Coding (November 2026): SWE-bench & LiveCodeBench Ranked2 surfaces
flaviocopes.comWhich AI model is best for coding? A hands-on comparison2 surfaces
llm-stats.comBest AI for Coding 2026 - Top Coding Models - LLM Stats2 surfaces
theairankings.comBest AI for Coding in 2026: Models, Tools & Agents Compared | The AI ...2 surfaces
amux.ioBest AI Model for Coding in 2026 - amux.io1 surfaces
anthropic.comClaude Opus \ Anthropic1 surfaces
checkaimodels.comBest AI Models for Coding 2026 — Compared1 surfaces
codingscape.comcodingscape.com1 surfaces
continuumcode.aiBest coding models 2026: ranked for the job - continuumcode.ai1 surfaces
creative-tim.comThe Best AI Models for Coding in 2026 (Ranked, With Real Prices)1 surfaces
deepmind.googleGemini 4 Carbon - Model Card — Google DeepMind1 surfaces

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