Best AI Coding Models for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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This a list of AI Coding Models that integrate with Model Context Protocol (MCP). Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Model Context Protocol (MCP). View the products that work with Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the table below.
What are AI Coding Models for Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
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 Model Context Protocol (MCP) 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 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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Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Max is Qwen’s most capable model to date, built as a Max-class AI model for coding, work, research, long-horizon tasks, and multimodal agents. It scales to 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active parameters and is available through QwenCloud. The model is designed to complete complex, open-ended tasks end to end with greater reliability and minimal human involvement. Qwen3.8-Max supports autonomous coding workflows, agentic development, research reproduction, visual reasoning, document understanding, video analysis, and real-world productivity tasks. It can integrate with popular agent frameworks and coding assistants, including Claude Code, Codex, Qoder CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenClaw. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and AI agent builders, Qwen3.8-Max helps teams automate sophisticated work across code, documents, tools, interfaces, and multimodal content.Starting Price: $2 per 1M (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 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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Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Muse Spark 1.2 is Meta’s coding-focused model update designed to power Muse Code and improve software engineering workflows. The model is built for code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, long-horizon development tasks, and end-to-end developer workflows. Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with Muse Code to improve performance inside the terminal coding agent environment. It supports planning, goal conditioning, context compaction, subagent coordination, and iterative coding workflows across large repositories. The model was trained with expanded coding compute, diverse development environments, self-improvement loops, and long-running engineering tasks. Built for AI developers and software teams, Muse Spark 1.2 helps agents plan, write, validate, debug, and optimize code with greater autonomy.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta Superintelligence Labs built for agentic tasks, coding, computer use, tool use, and multimodal understanding. The model improves on the original Muse Spark with stronger performance in planning, orchestration, long-context work, coding workflows, and external app interactions. Muse Spark 1.1 can manage a 1 million token context window, remember earlier actions, retrieve important information, compact context, and delegate tasks across parallel subagents. It is designed to operate across tools, MCP servers, custom skills, browsers, native apps, scripts, images, video, PDFs, and audio-based workflows. Developers can access Muse Spark 1.1 through the new Meta Model API public preview, while users can try it in Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling is an open-weights multimodal AI model from Thinking Machines designed as a customizable foundation model for developers, researchers, and enterprises. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters, 41 billion active parameters, and support for context windows up to 1 million tokens. Inkling was trained from scratch on text, images, audio, and video, giving it native capabilities across reasoning, coding, agentic tool use, vision, audio, factuality, and instruction following. It is built with controllable thinking effort so users can balance performance, latency, and token efficiency for different workloads. The model is available for fine-tuning on Tinker, with playground access, API availability through ecosystem partners, and full weights published on Hugging Face. Built for customization, Inkling gives teams an open-weights base model for building domain-specific AI systems, multimodal agents, coding workflows, research tools, and more.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude
Anthropic
Claude is a next-generation AI assistant developed by Anthropic to help individuals and teams solve complex problems with safety, accuracy, and reliability at its core. It is designed to support a wide range of tasks, including writing, editing, coding, data analysis, and research. Claude allows users to create and iterate on documents, websites, graphics, and code directly within chat using collaborative tools like Artifacts. The platform supports file uploads, image analysis, and data visualization to enhance productivity and understanding. Claude is available across web, iOS, and Android, making it accessible wherever work happens. With built-in web search and extended reasoning capabilities, Claude helps users find information and think through challenging problems more effectively. Anthropic emphasizes security, privacy, and responsible AI development to ensure Claude can be trusted in professional and personal workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Gemini
Google
Gemini is Google’s advanced AI assistant designed to help users think, create, learn, and complete tasks with a new level of intelligence. Powered by Google’s most capable models, including Gemini 3, it enables users to ask complex questions, generate content, analyze information, and explore ideas through natural conversation. Gemini can create images, videos, summaries, study plans, and first drafts while also providing feedback on uploaded files and written work. The platform is grounded in Google Search, allowing it to deliver accurate, up-to-date information and support deep follow-up questions. Gemini connects seamlessly with Google apps like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Maps, YouTube, and Photos to help users complete tasks without switching tools. Features such as Gemini Live, Deep Research, and Gems enhance brainstorming, research, and personalized workflows. Available through flexible free and paid plans, Gemini supports everyday users, students, and professionals across devices.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Inkling-Small
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling-Small is an efficient model that offers performance comparable to Inkling at a quarter of its size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, variable thinking effort, and context windows of up to one million tokens. Users adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high to balance performance and compute. Improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning helped Inkling-Small surpass its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. It performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses, exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified, and combines strong reasoning with efficient output. Its encoder-free multimodal architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens.Starting Price: $0.30 per million input tokens -
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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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Muse Spark 1.3
Meta
Muse Spark 1.3 is an AI model with improved performance across agentic and coding tasks, designed to be smarter and more practical for real-world work. It sustains longer-horizon tasks by collaborating with users and managing multiple workflows in a single, long thread. Given an open-ended objective, it uses tools to build context across messy or conflicting sources, correct gaps in its plan, track what it has learned, and produce a final deliverable. It asks clarifying questions when prompts are ambiguous, requests help when stuck, and confirms before taking consequential actions. The model follows complex, long-form instructions more reliably, preserving detailed requirements across multi-step tasks without dropping constraints or drifting from the requested workflow. Improved multitasking allows it to map incoming prompts to the correct task even when users interrupt or redirect previous requests.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M 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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Muse Spark
Meta
Muse Spark is a multimodal AI reasoning model developed by Meta as part of its push toward personal superintelligence. It integrates text, images, and tools to deliver advanced reasoning and interactive capabilities. The model supports features like visual chain-of-thought and multi-agent orchestration. Users can leverage Muse Spark for tasks such as problem-solving, content creation, and real-world troubleshooting. Its Contemplating mode enables multiple AI agents to reason in parallel for improved performance. Muse Spark also demonstrates strong capabilities in areas like health insights and visual understanding. Overall, it represents a significant step toward more intelligent and personalized AI systems. -
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Qwen3.8-27B
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-27B is a compact open-weights model in Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 family, aimed at developers and researchers who want strong local AI performance without using the full Max-scale model. Reports from Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 launch state that Qwen3.8-27B was planned for open-weight release alongside Qwen3.8-Max, expanding access for builders working on AI applications. The model is positioned for coding, research, professional workflows, and local deployment scenarios where a 27B model can be more practical than frontier-scale systems. Qwen3.8’s broader launch emphasizes software development, document processing, data analysis, and professional “cowork” use cases. Qwen3.8-27B is especially relevant for teams that need a capable open model for experimentation, coding agents, assistant workflows, and self-hosted inference. Built for practical deployment, Qwen3.8-27B gives developers a smaller Qwen3.8 option for building AI tools, testing agents, and running advanced language model workflows. -
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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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Qwen3.7-Max
Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Max is Qwen’s latest proprietary model designed for the agent era, built to be a versatile agent foundation that is equally capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous browser sessions over long horizons. It reaches frontier-level coding performance, with stronger results across software engineering, terminal tasks, GUI grounding, web browsing, and agentic tool use. Qwen3.7-Max is designed to reduce the gap between model intelligence and real agent execution by supporting planning, long-context reasoning, reliable function calling, and multi-step task completion across complex workflows. It also strengthens multimodal and document-oriented work through Qwen Studio, which supports chatbot interaction, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, presentation generation, coding assistance, deep research, and web development.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Pokee-Isaac
Pokee AI
Pokee-Isaac text-only agentic model with a usable context window of up to 10 million tokens. It is designed to reason, plan, call tools, and execute long-horizon tasks while remaining small enough to deploy inside a VPC, on customer premises, on a workstation, or on-device. Pokee reports that Isaac maintains strong long-context performance across RULER from 256K through 10M tokens and leads the evaluated panel on multi-needle retrieval at 256K, 512K, and 1M. Its agentic architecture is built for deterministic function calling, sustained multi-turn coherence, real-shell execution, and discovering and composing tools across live MCP servers. In Pokee’s controlled benchmarks, Isaac ranked first on BFCL v4 and τ³-bench, second on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 text-only subset, and third on MCP-Atlas. Security testing with DTAP also showed the lowest combined attack success rate in the comparison panel while retaining strong benign-task performance.Starting Price: $0.15 per 1M tokens -
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4. It systematically upgrades attention, residual connections, embeddings, and optimization to improve capability, computational efficiency, model capacity, and training stability. Its hybrid architecture combines Gated DeltaNet, which efficiently compresses historical information, with Qwen Sparse Attention, which selects important context at the micro-block level to reduce attention and indexing costs on long sequences. Gated Residual widens the residual stream into four branches and dynamically controls information flow across layers, while N-gram Embedding adds large-scale local-pattern memory with very little extra per-token computation and can be offloaded to host memory. The model uses a 125B-parameter main network plus 51B N-gram embedding parameters, while activating only 6B parameters per token.Starting Price: $2 per 1M (input)
