Best AI Models for Coding — 2026 Rankings

13 models evaluated across 713 coding queries. Ranked by composite Trust Score.

8.94
Top Model for Coding

GPT-5

OpenAI 6 evaluations
Rank Model Provider Trust Score RC FA SC RF ST ED HL Evals
1 GPT-5 OpenAI 8.94 9.00 9.08 9.17 9.25 9.08 7.75 9.17 6 *
2 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) Anthropic 8.91 8.42 8.38 9.21 9.71 9.04 0.00 8.71 12 *
3 GPT-5.2 (Thinking) OpenAI 8.88 8.65 8.64 9.10 9.72 9.03 7.58 8.92 71
4 GPT-5.1 (Thinking) OpenAI 8.86 8.64 8.68 9.13 9.53 9.05 8.01 8.96 20 *
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 8.84 8.41 8.47 8.94 9.66 9.19 7.72 8.99 16 *
6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic 8.64 8.29 7.97 8.89 9.53 8.80 7.33 8.75 275
7 Grok 4 (Reasoning) xAI (Grok) 8.57 8.44 8.43 8.75 9.18 8.71 7.91 8.62 11 *
8 Gemini 3 Pro Google Gemini 8.53 8.32 7.95 8.85 9.34 8.74 7.09 8.63 174
9 Grok 4.1 (Reasoning) xAI (Grok) 8.50 8.40 7.89 8.82 9.28 8.75 7.64 8.51 18 *
10 Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive) Anthropic 8.37 7.84 7.81 8.49 9.19 8.45 5.25 8.53 75
11 Grok 4 xAI (Grok) 8.32 7.94 8.31 8.56 9.19 8.31 7.69 8.25 8 *
12 Sonar Pro Perplexity 8.26 8.33 7.50 8.72 8.56 8.50 7.69 8.50 9 *
13 Sonar Reasoning Pro Perplexity 7.79 7.70 7.50 8.00 8.40 8.00 7.40 7.90 5 *

* Low sample size (<30 evaluations) — ranking may shift with more data

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