Best AI Models for Visual Studio Code
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Compare the Top AI Models that integrate with Visual Studio Code as of October 2026
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This a list of AI Models that integrate with Visual Studio Code. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Visual Studio Code. View the products that work with Visual Studio Code in the table below.
What are AI Models for Visual Studio Code?
AI models are systems designed to simulate human intelligence by learning from data and solving complex tasks. They include specialized types like Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation, image models for visual recognition and editing, and video models for processing and analyzing dynamic content. These models power applications such as chatbots, facial recognition, video summarization, and personalized recommendations. Their capabilities rely on advanced algorithms, extensive training datasets, and robust computational resources. AI models are transforming industries by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and enabling creative innovations. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Models for Visual Studio Code currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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LM-Kit.NET
LM-Kit
LM-Kit.NET now lets your .NET apps run the latest open models entirely on device, including Meta Llama 4, DeepSeek V3-0324, Microsoft Phi 4 (plus mini and multimodal variants), Mistral Mixtral 8x22B, Google Gemma 3, and Alibaba Qwen 2.5 VL, so you get cutting-edge language, vision, and audio performance without calling any external service. A continuously updated model catalog with setup instructions and quantized builds is available at docs.lm-kit.com/lm-kit-net/guides/getting-started/model-catalog.html, letting you integrate new releases quickly while keeping latency low and data fully private.Starting Price: Free (Community) or $1000/year -
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Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s mid-tier Claude 5.5 model designed for fast, well-scoped everyday work, coding, and professional document creation. Anthropic says it runs more than 30% faster than Claude Sonnet 5 and typically costs up to 30% less per task while keeping the same base token pricing. The model shows major gains in agentic coding, with a 70.6% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and stronger performance on FrontierCode and CursorBench than its predecessor. Sonnet 5.5 also performs strongly on knowledge work, computer use, chart understanding, and long-horizon tasks, in some cases approaching Claude Opus 5.5 at higher effort settings. Anthropic positions it as especially useful for debugging, routine coding, collaboration, and producing polished documents, slides, spreadsheets, and user interfaces. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms as well as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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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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GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol is a next-generation OpenAI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, biology analysis, cybersecurity support, and complex knowledge work. It is part of the GPT-5.6 model family alongside Terra and Luna, with Sol positioned as the flagship model for the most demanding tasks. The model introduces a new max reasoning effort for deeper thinking and an ultra mode that uses subagents to accelerate complex work beyond a single-agent approach. GPT-5.6 Sol shows strong performance in command-line coding workflows, long-horizon security tasks, genomics analysis, vulnerability research, debugging, patch development, and defensive testing. OpenAI pairs the model’s stronger capabilities with layered safeguards, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, automated red-teaming, and enterprise controls for sensitive workflows. GPT-5.6 Sol helps developers, enterprises, researchers, and security teams complete sophisticated technical work.Starting Price: $4 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s frontier AI model for computer use, software engineering, scientific research, cybersecurity, browsing, and complex professional work. It combines advanced reasoning with agentic capabilities that allow it to navigate software, use tools, conduct research, manipulate data, troubleshoot systems, and complete multistep workflows. Astra is also designed to produce polished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, websites, applications, and other business or technical artifacts while following existing templates and organizational standards. In Codex, the model introduces improved long-running context management that can preserve notes and retrieve information from earlier context windows during extended software engineering tasks. OpenAI positions Astra as its most aligned model to date, with improvements in respecting task boundaries, interpreting user intent, communicating limitations, and avoiding unauthorized actions.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 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s advanced AI model for agentic coding, complex knowledge work, computer use, research, and long-running professional tasks. It is designed to handle large codebases, multi-step workflows, financial analysis, document creation, software audits, and other demanding workloads with improved efficiency over Claude Opus 5. Anthropic reports that Opus 5.5 uses fewer tokens per task, produces output more than 30% faster, and costs less to run than its predecessor. The model also improves communication quality by putting important information first, reducing unnecessary jargon, and following writing instructions more consistently. Safety enhancements include stronger prompt-injection resistance, action screening, sandboxing support, code review, behavioral alignment testing, and safeguards for high-risk cybersecurity & biology. Claude Opus 5.5 is available through Claude, Claude Code, the Claude Platform API, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $4 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI
GPT-6 Luna is OpenAI’s cost-efficient GPT-6 model designed for everyday professional work, coding, computer use, and agentic applications at scale. It brings many of the advances introduced with GPT-6 Astra to a faster and substantially lower-cost model while improving on GPT-5.6 Luna in capability and factual reliability. The model supports adjustable reasoning effort, allowing applications to spend more compute on harder tasks and less on simpler requests. GPT-6 Luna can handle software engineering, multi-step business workflows, computer interaction, and other tool-using tasks that benefit from low operating cost. Improved GPT-6 prompt caching helps long-running agents reuse more context, respond faster, and reduce the cost of repeated input. GPT-6 Luna is available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, the ChatGPT desktop app for Free and Go users, and the OpenAI API as gpt-6-luna.Starting Price: $0.10 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI
GPT-6 Sol is an OpenAI model designed to bring GPT-6-class intelligence to professional work, coding, computer use, and agentic workflows at a lower cost than GPT-6 Astra. The model improves on GPT-5.6 Sol in factual reliability, software engineering, business automation, and long-horizon computer tasks. Developers can adjust reasoning effort depending on task complexity, allowing Sol to allocate more computation to difficult problems while using less for simpler work. GPT-6 Sol also introduces a clearer collaboration style with less jargon, fewer unnecessary details, and more concise technical communication. Improved prompt caching helps agents reuse long contexts more efficiently while reducing latency and cached-input costs. GPT-6 Sol is available through ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the OpenAI API as gpt-6-sol.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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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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GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna is the fast and affordable model in OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 series, built to bring strong capability to users and developers who need practical intelligence with lower overhead. In the new GPT-5.6 naming system, the number identifies the model generation, while Sol, Terra, and Luna identify durable capability tiers that can advance on their own cadence, giving people and developers clearer choices across intelligence, speed, and cost. Luna sits alongside Sol, the flagship model, and Terra, the balanced model for everyday work, as part of a family designed for broader access to next-generation AI. During the limited preview, GPT-5.6 models are initially available through the API and Codex to a select group of trusted partners and organizations, with plans for broader availability in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. OpenAI developed GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with its most robust safeguards to date, with configurations matched to each model’s capabilities.Starting Price: $0.20 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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GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Terra is a balanced model in the GPT-5.6 series designed for everyday work, coding, agentic workflows, cybersecurity support, biology analysis, and enterprise automation. It sits between GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship model, and GPT-5.6 Luna, the faster and lower-cost option. Terra is positioned to deliver competitive performance to GPT-5.5 while being significantly cheaper to run. The model supports improved reasoning, coding, tool coordination, long-horizon workflows, and legitimate defensive security work. It is part of a model family built with layered safeguards, including trained refusals, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, differentiated access, monitoring, and continued red-team testing. GPT-5.6 Terra helps developers, enterprises, and technical teams access strong AI capabilities with a more practical balance of intelligence, speed, and cost.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 is an Anthropic AI model designed for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads such as classification, routing, extraction, and subagent tasks. The model supports adaptive thinking, allowing it to determine when and how much reasoning to perform based on the request. Developers can use the effort parameter to balance response quality against speed and cost, while adaptive thinking is enabled by default. Claude Haiku 5.5 provides a 1 million token context window and supports outputs of up to 128,000 tokens, increasing from the 200,000-token context window and 64,000-token output limit of Claude Haiku 4.5. It also supports browser use through the Claude API and Google Cloud for workflows that require interaction with web-based environments. Claude Haiku 5.5 uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer introduced with Claude 4.7 and later models, which results in the same text using approximately 30% more tokens than with Claude Haiku 4.5.Starting Price: $0.10 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s most capable model, built for frontier intelligence scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and multimodal understanding. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention mechanism, along with Attention Residuals for long-context performance. Kimi K3 supports a 1 million token context window, making it useful for analyzing large codebases, long documents, complex knowledge bases, and multi-step workflows. It includes native visual understanding for images and videos, with support for structured message formats, base64 image input, uploaded video files, and multimodal reasoning. Developers can use Kimi K3 through an OpenAI-compatible API with support for streaming, structured JSON output, partial mode, custom tools, dynamic tool loading, and automatic context caching.Starting Price: $3 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.5
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world tasks with greater autonomy and efficiency. It quickly understands user intent and can execute multi-step workflows such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. Instead of requiring step-by-step instructions, GPT-5.5 plans tasks, uses tools, evaluates outputs, and continues working until completion. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving, helping users move from idea to execution faster. The model is built to operate across tools and environments, making it highly effective for modern digital workflows. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 enables individuals and teams to complete demanding work more efficiently and accurately.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Kimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.7 Code is an open-source, coding-focused agentic AI model developed by Moonshot AI for long-horizon software engineering tasks. It is designed to improve coding performance, agent workflows, and real-world development assistance compared with earlier Kimi K2 versions. The model supports a 256K context window, making it useful for working with large codebases, long technical documents, and complex multi-step programming tasks. Kimi K2.7 Code is available through Kimi Code and API access, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible options for easier integration into developer workflows. It is also listed on Hugging Face and supports deployment through inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, and KTransformers. With improved agentic capabilities, long-context support, and reduced thinking-token usage compared with K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code gives developers a flexible open-source option for AI-assisted coding.Starting Price: Free -
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Laguna S 2.1
Poolside
Laguna S 2.1 is an open weight agentic coding model designed to pursue longer-horizon work and make effective use of reasoning. It uses a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 8 billion active parameters per token and supports a context window of up to one million tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. Its compact active size makes it suitable for complex work on local machines while remaining competitive with models many times larger on terminal, software-engineering, codebase-question-answering, and tool-use benchmarks. Laguna S 2.1 is built to keep working through difficult tasks with greater persistence, verification, and willingness to backtrack instead of declaring success too early. In demonstrated runs, it built and validated a browser rendering engine from an empty folder, optimized an agent harness for faster execution and substantially lower memory allocation, and completed extended mathematical research using the tools in its environment. -
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BLACKBOX AI
BLACKBOX AI
BLACKBOX AI is an advanced AI-powered platform designed to accelerate coding, app development, and deep research tasks. It features an AI Coding Agent that supports real-time voice interaction, GPU acceleration, and remote parallel task execution. Users can convert Figma designs into functional code and transform images into web applications with minimal coding effort. The platform enables screen sharing within IDEs like VSCode and offers mobile access to coding agents. BLACKBOX AI also supports integration with GitHub repositories for streamlined remote workflows. Its capabilities extend to website design, app building with PDF context, and image generation and editing.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-4.1
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 is an advanced AI model from OpenAI, designed to enhance performance across key tasks such as coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. With a large context window of up to 1 million tokens, GPT-4.1 can process and understand extensive datasets, making it ideal for tasks like software development, document analysis, and AI agent workflows. Available through the API, GPT-4.1 offers significant improvements over previous models, excelling at real-world applications where efficiency and accuracy are crucial.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI
GPT-6.1 Sol is an OpenAI model designed to deliver near-GPT-6 Astra intelligence at substantially lower cost across coding, professional work, computer use, scientific research, and agentic workflows. It improves on GPT-6 Sol across complex tasks such as software engineering, document analysis, multi-step business automation, and computer interaction. On DeepSWE v1.1, GPT-6.1 Sol matches GPT-6 Astra at roughly one-fifth of the cost while exceeding GPT-6 Sol's best score by 6.4 percentage points at a lower reasoning effort. The model also improves computer use, outperforming GPT-6 Sol by seven percentage points on the OSWorld 2.0 offline set at maximum reasoning effort while costing less than half as much per task. GPT-6.1 Sol provides improved factuality and alignment, including greater transparency about limitations and stronger adherence to user instructions during agentic tasks. It is available through ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the OpenAI API.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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MAI-Code-1-Flash
Microsoft AI
MAI-Code-1-Flash is a Microsoft coding model built for fast, efficient assistance in everyday developer workflows. Built end-to-end by Microsoft using clean and appropriately licensed data, the model is rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code through the model picker and the default Auto picker. It is designed around the goal of delivering high-quality coding help with better efficiency, helping engineering teams write better code faster through a lightweight, agentic model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code. MAI-Code-1-Flash was trained directly with GitHub Copilot production harnesses, allowing it to interact with surrounding tools and systems in real developer environments rather than being optimized only for static benchmarks. It supports agentic coding, strong instruction-following across single-turn and multi-turn scenarios, repository question answering, refactoring, telemetry-grounded tasks, and adaptive thinking. -
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MAI-Code-1.1-Flash
Microsoft AI
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is a small, efficient coding model designed to help engineering teams write better code faster. Now in production in GitHub Copilot and built into VS Code, it focuses on real-world developer workflows, with particular improvements for command-line tasks and .NET development based on developer feedback. Compared with the version introduced at Microsoft Build in June, the model produces higher-quality code while using fewer tokens and streaming responses faster. Microsoft reports a 22% improvement on Terminal-Bench 2.1 in GitHub Copilot CLI and a 15% improvement on .NET tasks. Production results also showed a 4% increase in code survival and a 9% increase in return visits. In GitHub Copilot, tokens stream 25% faster and the model uses 25% fewer tokens to complete a task, aiming to deliver faster answers, less waiting, and more useful work from every token. Its gains come from improved training and serving efficiency, with optimization centered on real-world use. -
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GPT-5.1 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Pro is the highest-performance version of the GPT-5.1 model family, designed for research-grade reasoning and advanced analytical workloads. It delivers deeper, more structured thinking, making it ideal for complex problem-solving across coding, science, finance, law, and technical research. Unlike the Instant and Thinking versions, GPT-5.1 Pro is built to maintain accuracy under heavy cognitive load, producing clearer logic and more reliable multi-step reasoning. Pro users also gain access to extended context windows, allowing significantly longer inputs and deeper information processing. While it supports the full range of ChatGPT features, GPT-5.1 Pro is optimized for precision, rigor, and high-stakes tasks. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Business customers. -
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Grok Code Fast 1
SpaceXAI
Grok Code Fast 1 is a high-speed, economical reasoning model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. Unlike traditional models that can feel slow in tool-based loops, it delivers near-instant responses, excelling in everyday software development tasks. Built from scratch with a programming-rich corpus and refined on real-world pull requests, it supports languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Developers can use it for everything from zero-to-one project building to precise bug fixes and codebase Q&A. With optimized inference and caching techniques, it achieves impressive responsiveness and a 90%+ cache hit rate when integrated with partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cline. Offered at just $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, Grok Code Fast 1 strikes a strong balance between speed, performance, and affordability.Starting Price: $0.20 per million input tokens -
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Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.6 is a next-generation agentic AI model developed by Moonshot AI, designed to push forward real-world execution, coding, and multi-step reasoning beyond earlier K2 and K2.5 versions. It builds on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and the multimodal, agent-first foundation of the Kimi series, combining language understanding, coding, and tool use into a single system capable of planning and executing complex workflows. It introduces deeper reasoning capabilities and significantly improved agent planning, allowing it to break down tasks, coordinate tools, and handle multi-file or multi-step problems with greater accuracy and efficiency. It supports advanced tool calling with high reliability, enabling integration with external systems such as web search or APIs, and includes built-in validation mechanisms to ensure correct execution formats.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5.1-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex is a specialized version of the GPT-5.1 model built for software engineering and agentic coding workflows. It is optimized for both interactive development sessions and long-horizon, autonomous execution of complex engineering tasks, such as building projects from scratch, developing features, debugging, performing large-scale refactoring, and code review. It supports tool-use, integrates naturally with developer environments, and adapts reasoning effort dynamically, moving quickly on simple tasks while spending more time on deep ones. The model is described as producing cleaner and higher-quality code outputs compared to general models, with closer adherence to developer instructions and fewer hallucinations. GPT-5.1-Codex is available via the Responses API route (rather than a standard chat API) and comes in variants including “mini” for cost-sensitive usage and “max” for the highest capability.Starting Price: $1.25 per input -
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Trinity-Large-Thinking
Arcee AI
Trinity Large Thinking is a frontier open source reasoning model developed by Arcee AI, designed specifically for complex, multi-step problem solving and autonomous agent workflows that require long-horizon planning and tool use. Built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with roughly 400 billion total parameters but only about 13 billion active per token, the model achieves high efficiency while maintaining strong reasoning performance across tasks such as mathematical problem solving, code generation, and multi-step analysis. It introduces extended chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities, allowing the model to generate intermediate “thinking traces” before producing final answers, which improves accuracy and reliability in complex scenarios. Trinity Large Thinking supports a very large context window of up to 262K tokens, enabling it to process long documents, maintain state across extended interactions, and operate effectively in continuous agent loops.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5.5 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Pro is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world work with greater autonomy and efficiency. It understands user intent quickly and can execute multi-step tasks such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. The model is built to plan, use tools, and refine its outputs until tasks are complete. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 Pro can manage long-running workflows across tools and systems. It delivers high-quality results while maintaining speed and efficiency. Overall, it enables individuals and teams to complete demanding tasks faster and more accurately.Starting Price: $30 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Laguna XS.2
Poolside
Laguna XS.2 is Poolside’s open-weight agentic coding model, built as the lightest and fastest model in the Laguna family. It is a 33B total-parameter Mixture of Experts model with 3B activated parameters, trained completely in-house on 30T tokens. As Poolside’s newest generation model open to the community, Laguna XS.2 is a second-generation architecture and the company’s first open-weight model, built on the lessons learned from training Laguna M.1 across synthetic data and reinforcement learning. The model is designed for agentic coding workflows, where it can code, act, iterate quickly, and perform best inside Poolside’s coding agent. Laguna XS.2 is positioned as a strong model for rapid agentic iteration, especially for developers and teams that need a compact, efficient coding model rather than a heavier frontier system. It is released under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing the community to evaluate, fine-tune, quantize, serve, and build on the weights.Starting Price: Free
