Best AI Coding Models for Claude
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This a list of AI Coding Models that integrate with Claude. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Claude. View the products that work with Claude in the table below.
What are AI Coding Models for Claude?
AI coding models are machine learning models specifically trained to assist with software development tasks, such as code generation, bug detection, code completion, and optimization. These models are often built using large datasets of source code and can understand programming languages, patterns, and frameworks. AI coding models can write code based on user prompts, suggest syntax or entire functions, and help developers improve their code through real-time suggestions. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Coding Models for Claude currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic’s advanced AI model for coding, knowledge work, research, and long-running agentic tasks. It is designed to improve on Claude Fable 5 with stronger performance across software engineering, scientific research, multidisciplinary reasoning, computer use, business workflows, and complex problem solving. The model can handle extended multi-step work, verify its own results, diagnose difficult software issues, and operate effectively across tool-heavy workflows. Anthropic also reduced cache-read pricing for Fable 5.1, lowering typical usage costs compared with Fable 5 and creating larger savings for highly agentic workloads. Fable 5.1 includes updated safeguards intended to reduce false positives while allowing more legitimate cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability discovery for defensive purposes. The model is available through Claude products, the Claude API, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $10 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5.1 is Anthropic’s newest Mythos-class model, designed for advanced cybersecurity, biology, scientific research, coding, and long-running knowledge work. It is the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5.1 but uses different safeguards: Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is restricted to trusted access programs with safeguards specifically designed for cybersecurity and life sciences research. The model sets a new performance frontier for agentic coding and demonstrates the strongest cyber capabilities of any Anthropic model released to date. In scientific research, Mythos 5.1 can work with specialized tools and complex workflows across molecular design, computational biology, and other technical domains. In Anthropic’s experiments, it designed high-affinity protein binders across multiple targets and achieved its strongest measured hit rate to date. It also optimized seven open-source protein and genomics deep learning models. -
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s advanced everyday AI model built for coding, knowledge work, problem-solving, visual outputs, and production AI workflows. The model delivers stronger performance than Opus 4.8 at the same base price and is positioned as a cost-effective alternative close to Claude Fable 5 frontier intelligence. Claude Opus 5 supports configurable effort settings so users can optimize for intelligence, speed, or token efficiency. It performs especially well on software engineering, automation, computer use, scientific research, and knowledge work evaluations. The model is available on Claude Max, Claude Pro, Claude API, Claude Code, and other Claude platforms, with Fast mode available at a higher price. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and everyday Claude users, Claude Opus 5 helps teams complete complex tasks with stronger verification, careful iteration, and practical cost efficiency.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Code
Anthropic
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding agent designed to work directly inside your existing development environment. It goes beyond simple autocomplete by understanding entire codebases and helping developers build, debug, refactor, and ship features faster. Developers can interact with Claude Code from the terminal, IDEs, Slack, or the web, making it easy to stay in flow without switching tools. By describing tasks in natural language, users can let Claude handle code exploration, modifications, and explanations. Claude Code can analyze project structure, dependencies, and architecture to onboard developers quickly. It integrates with common command-line tools, version control systems, and testing workflows. This makes it a powerful companion for both individual developers and teams working on complex software projects.Starting Price: $20/month -
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Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5 is Anthropic’s most advanced restricted-access AI model, designed for trusted cyberdefenders, infrastructure providers, and select research organizations. It uses the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5 but provides lifted safeguards in approved areas for specialized high-trust use cases. The model delivers exceptional capabilities in cybersecurity, software engineering, scientific research, long-context reasoning, vision, and autonomous task execution. Anthropic initially deployed Claude Mythos 5 through Project Glasswing in collaboration with the U.S. government to help protect critical software and infrastructure. The model also shows strong potential in life sciences, including protein design, molecular biology hypothesis generation, and genomics research. Claude Mythos 5 is built for organizations that need frontier AI capabilities under controlled, trusted-access conditions.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's latest AI model, designed to deliver stronger agentic capabilities for coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work while maintaining the efficiency of the Sonnet family. The model can independently plan tasks, use external tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete complex workflows that previously required larger AI models. Sonnet 5 significantly improves upon Claude Sonnet 4.6 with better reasoning, coding performance, reduced hallucinations, stronger safety behavior, and more effective autonomous task execution. It is available across Claude plans and through the Claude API with OpenAI-style developer access for application integration. Anthropic also introduced lower introductory API pricing, making Sonnet 5 a cost-effective option for developers building AI-powered products. By combining advanced agentic capabilities with improved safety and competitive pricing, Claude Sonnet 5 helps developers build more capable AI applications.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5 is an advanced AI model from Anthropic designed to assist with software engineering, research, knowledge work, vision tasks, and complex reasoning. Built on the Mythos-class architecture, it delivers significantly improved performance across coding, analysis, and long-context workflows. The model can handle extended autonomous tasks while maintaining focus and consistency over large amounts of information. Claude Fable 5 integrates advanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and memory capabilities to support professional and enterprise use cases. Anthropic has implemented specialized safeguards that automatically route certain high-risk cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model distillation requests to a different model. Claude Fable 5 helps organizations and professionals accelerate complex work while maintaining strong safety and governance controls.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 is a powerful AI model from Anthropic designed to deliver stronger coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and advanced collaboration capabilities for developers, enterprises, and AI-powered productivity tasks. The model builds on Claude Opus 4.7 with improvements across coding benchmarks, practical knowledge work, alignment, and reliability while maintaining the same pricing structure. Claude Opus 4.8 introduces enhanced honesty and reasoning behavior, making it less likely to generate unsupported claims or overlook flaws during complex tasks such as software development and agent execution. The release also includes new features such as effort control settings, fast mode for lower-cost high-speed processing, and dynamic workflows in Claude Code that allow the system to coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for large-scale tasks.Starting Price: $5 per 1M (input) -
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Claude Sonnet 3.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.5 sets new industry benchmarks for graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval). It shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions, and is exceptional at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone. Claude Sonnet 3.5 operates at twice the speed of Claude Opus 3. This performance boost, combined with cost-effective pricing, makes Claude Sonnet 3.5 ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Opus 3
Anthropic
Opus, our most intelligent model, outperforms its peers on most of the common evaluation benchmarks for AI systems, including undergraduate level expert knowledge (MMLU), graduate level expert reasoning (GPQA), basic mathematics (GSM8K), and more. It exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks, leading the frontier of general intelligence. All Claude 3 models show increased capabilities in analysis and forecasting, nuanced content creation, code generation, and conversing in non-English languages like Spanish, Japanese, and French.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Sonnet 3.7
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, developed by Anthropic, is a cutting-edge AI model that combines rapid response with deep reflective reasoning. This innovative model allows users to toggle between quick, efficient responses and more thoughtful, reflective answers, making it ideal for complex problem-solving. By allowing Claude to self-reflect before answering, it excels at tasks that require high-level reasoning and nuanced understanding. With its ability to engage in deeper thought processes, Claude Sonnet 3.7 enhances tasks such as coding, natural language processing, and critical thinking applications. Available across various platforms, it offers a powerful tool for professionals and organizations seeking a high-performance, adaptable AI.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 represents a revolutionary leap in AI model performance, setting a new standard for coding and reasoning capabilities. As the world’s best coding model, Opus 4 excels in handling long-running, complex tasks, and agent workflows. With sustained performance that can run for hours, it outperforms all prior models—including the Sonnet series—making it ideal for demanding coding projects, research, and AI agent applications. It’s the model of choice for organizations looking to enhance their software engineering, streamline workflows, and improve productivity with remarkable precision. Now available on Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Opus 4 offers unparalleled support for coding, debugging, and collaborative agent tasks.Starting Price: $15 / 1 million tokens (input) -
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Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7 is the latest Anthropic AI model release designed to significantly improve performance in advanced software engineering and complex problem-solving tasks. It builds upon the previous Opus 4.6 model by delivering stronger results on difficult coding challenges and long-running workflows. The model is known for its ability to follow instructions precisely and verify its own outputs for greater reliability. It also introduces enhanced multimodal capabilities, particularly in processing high-resolution images with improved accuracy. Opus 4.7 supports more detailed visual tasks such as analyzing dense screenshots and extracting data from complex diagrams. In professional settings, it produces higher-quality outputs including documents, presentations, and user interfaces. The model includes updated safety features that detect and block high-risk cybersecurity-related requests.Starting Price: $5 per million tokens (input) -
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Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, the latest evolution of Anthropic’s language models, offers a significant upgrade in coding, reasoning, and performance. Designed for diverse use cases, Sonnet 4 builds upon the success of its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering more precise responses and better task execution. With a state-of-the-art 72.7% performance on the SWE-bench, it stands out in agentic scenarios, offering enhanced steerability and clear reasoning capabilities. Whether handling software development, multi-feature app creation, or complex problem-solving, Claude Sonnet 4 ensures higher code quality, reduced errors, and a smoother development process.Starting Price: $3 / 1 million tokens (input) -
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Claude Haiku 3.5
Anthropic
Our fastest model, delivering advanced coding, tool use, and reasoning at an accessible price Claude Haiku 3.5 is the next generation of our fastest model. For a similar speed to Claude Haiku 3, Claude Haiku 3.5 improves across every skill set and surpasses Claude Opus 3, the largest model in our previous generation, on many intelligence benchmarks. -
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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 is an advanced AI model developed by Anthropic, designed for high-level reasoning, coding, and knowledge work tasks. It introduces significant improvements in coding, debugging, and code review capabilities. The model can handle long, complex workflows and sustain agentic tasks with greater reliability. It features a 1 million token context window in beta, enabling it to process and retain large amounts of information. Claude Opus 4.6 is optimized for tasks such as financial analysis, research, and document creation. It also integrates with tools like Excel and PowerPoint for enhanced productivity. Overall, it is a state-of-the-art AI model built for complex, real-world professional applications. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, delivering significant upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work. It introduces a 1 million token context window in beta, allowing users to analyze entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or large research collections in a single session. The model demonstrates major improvements in instruction following, consistency, and reduced hallucinations compared to previous Sonnet versions. In developer testing, users strongly preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 and even favored it over Opus 4.5 in many coding scenarios. Its enhanced computer-use capabilities enable it to interact with real software interfaces similarly to a human, improving automation for legacy systems without APIs. Sonnet 4.6 also performs strongly on major benchmarks, approaching Opus-level intelligence at a more accessible price point. -
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Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, its latest small-language model designed to deliver near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost. The model provides similar coding and reasoning quality as the company’s mid-tier Sonnet 4, yet it runs at roughly one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed. In benchmarks cited by Anthropic, Haiku 4.5 meets or exceeds Sonnet 4’s performance in key tasks such as code generation and multi-step “computer use” workflows. It is optimized for real-time, low-latency scenarios such as chat assistants, customer service agents, and pair-programming support. Haiku 4.5 is made available via the Claude API under the identifier “claude-haiku-4-5” and supports large-scale deployments where cost, responsiveness, and near-frontier intelligence matter. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available now on Claude Code and our apps. Its efficiency means you can accomplish more within your usage limits while maintaining premium model performance.Starting Price: $1 per million input tokens -
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KAT-Coder-Pro V2
StreamLake
KAT-Coder is an agentic AI coding system designed to go beyond traditional autocomplete tools by enabling end-to-end software development workflows driven by reasoning, planning, and execution. It is positioned as a flagship coding model within the KAT ecosystem, built specifically for “agentic coding,” where the model does not just generate snippets but can diagnose issues, propose fixes, run tests, and iterate across multiple files as part of a continuous development loop. It integrates directly with developer environments through API endpoints and proxy layers compatible with tools like Claude Code, allowing seamless use inside existing IDE workflows without changing the interface developers are already familiar with. KAT-Coder is trained using a multi-stage pipeline that includes supervised fine-tuning and large-scale reinforcement learning, enabling it to understand programming context, and reason over complex tasks.Starting Price: $0.30 per month -
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Claude Opus 5.2
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.2 is an anticipated upcoming model in Anthropic’s Opus family, expected to build on Opus 5 with stronger coding, agentic reasoning, and professional knowledge work. Anthropic has not yet published an official model card, API identifier, pricing, release date, or benchmark results for Opus 5.2, so its exact specifications remain unconfirmed. The current Opus 5 baseline emphasizes long-running agents, software engineering, computer use, scientific research, visual development, and complex enterprise workflows, making these likely areas for continued improvement. Opus 5.2 would be expected to improve reliability across multi-step tasks, codebase navigation, tool use, verification, and sustained autonomous work while making more efficient use of reasoning and tokens.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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AlphaCodium
Qodo
AlphaCodium is a research-driven AI tool developed by Qodo to enhance coding with iterative, test-driven processes. It helps large language models improve their accuracy by enabling them to engage in logical reasoning, testing, and refining code. AlphaCodium offers an alternative to basic prompt-based approaches by guiding AI through a more structured flow paradigm, which leads to better mastery of complex code problems, particularly those involving edge cases. It improves performance on coding challenges by refining outputs based on specific tests, ensuring more reliable results. AlphaCodium is benchmarked to significantly increase the success rates of LLMs like GPT-4o, OpenAI o1, and Sonnet-3.5. It supports developers by providing advanced solutions for complex coding tasks, allowing for enhanced productivity in software development. -
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Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 is an incremental upgrade to Claude Opus 4 that boosts coding, agentic reasoning, and data-analysis performance without changing deployment complexity. It raises coding accuracy to 74.5 percent on SWE-bench Verified and sharpens in-depth research and detailed tracking for agentic search tasks. GitHub reports notable gains in multi-file code refactoring, while Rakuten Group highlights its precision in pinpointing exact corrections within large codebases without introducing bugs. Independent benchmarks show about a one-standard-deviation improvement on junior developer tests compared to Opus 4, mirroring major leaps seen in prior Claude releases. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection. -
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model, delivering major improvements in reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and real-world problem solving. It outperforms previous models and leading competitors on benchmarks such as SWE-bench, multilingual coding tests, and advanced agent evaluations. Opus 4.5 also introduces stronger safety features, including significantly higher resistance to prompt injection and improved alignment across sensitive tasks. Developers gain new controls through the Claude API—like effort parameters, context compaction, and advanced tool use—allowing for more efficient, longer-running agentic workflows. Product updates across Claude, Claude Code, the Chrome extension, and Excel integrations expand how users interact with the model for software engineering, research, and everyday productivity. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 marks a substantial step forward in capability, reliability, and usability for developers, enterprises, and end users. -
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Xiaomi MiMo Studio
Xiaomi Technology
MiMo Studio is a web-based AI chat and development interface powered by Xiaomi’s MiMo models that lets users interact directly with advanced language models like MiMo-V2-Flash for real-time conversational AI, search-augmented responses, reasoning, and code generation. It acts like an interactive “AI playground” where users can chat with the model to get answers, ask for explanations, generate or debug code, and explore ideas interactively without installing software. It supports features such as web search integration and toggleable modes that switch between instant replies and deeper “thinking” responses for more complex tasks, helping developers and creators explore tasks from research to functional output. Because it’s browser-based, it provides easy online access to Xiaomi’s cutting-edge AI models, enabling experimentation with large-context reasoning, problem solving, and multi-turn interactions. -
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Claude Mythos
Anthropic
Claude Mythos Preview is a highly advanced AI model developed with strong capabilities in cybersecurity, particularly in identifying and exploiting software vulnerabilities. It demonstrates the ability to autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems, browsers, and critical software systems. The model can also generate complex exploit chains, including privilege escalation and remote code execution attacks. Its capabilities extend beyond vulnerability detection to reverse engineering and exploit development in both open-source and closed-source environments. Mythos Preview operates through agentic workflows, enabling it to analyze codebases, test hypotheses, and validate exploits independently. These abilities represent a significant leap compared to previous models, which struggled with exploit generation. Overall, Claude Mythos Preview highlights a new era where AI can both strengthen and challenge global cybersecurity practices.
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