AI model comparison

Demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, when Opus at high effort still falls short

Agentic coding and multi-step engineering work, near the ceiling, at half the price

The hardest end-to-end work, computer use, and long agentic runs that span applications

Frontier-grade generalist work now that Astra has taken the top of the line

Reasoning over very long inputs, whole codebases, long documents, video

Agentic coding with tool use, especially inside xAI's own tooling

The default for most work, reads code like a senior engineer at a fair price

Production workloads that need frontier-family quality without the flagship bill

High-volume agent loops and prototyping, cheap enough to run constantly

Classification, routing, and extraction at volume

High-volume, low-latency work where speed and cost matter most

Open reasoning at a fraction of the cost of closed reasoning models

Frontier-adjacent quality you can self-host, the open model closest to the closed leaders

A strong open model for local use, especially good at coding for its size

The widest open ecosystem, tooling and fine-tunes, though Meta's newer open work ships as Muse

Open coding and agentic work at close to closed-model quality

Always-on local agents, 30B distilled from Muse Spark to fit one consumer GPU

Efficient European open models for building without heavy lock-in