Best AI model for software & it services

Professional software/IT domain questions. Ranked by Arena text / industry_software_and_it_services, priced against live API rates. 44 models have a published score on this board.

Capability published 2026-09-02 · pricing retrieved 2026-09-10

Most capable
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
$20.00 / 1M blended
100% of leader strength
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Best value
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google
$1.50 / 1M blended
91% of leader strength · 93% cheaper
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Budget
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek
$0.10 / 1M blended
75% of leader strength · 100% cheaper
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
Best for agents
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google
$1.50 / 1M blended
91% of leader strength · 93% cheaper
google/gemini-3.8-flash

Top 25 models for software & it services

Rows marked frontier are Pareto-optimal — nothing we track is both stronger and cheaper. "Strength" rescales the board so 100% = parity with the leader.

#ModelProviderScoreStrength$/1MContextTools
1 Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Anthropic 1541 100% $20.001M tools
2 Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Anthropic 1529 97% $10.001M tools
3 Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Anthropic 1528 96% $10.001M tools
4 Claude Fable 5
anthropic/claude-fable-5
Anthropic 1514 92% $20.001M tools
5 Gemini 3.8 Flash
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Google 1509 91% $1.501.048576M tools
6 Claude Opus 4.7
anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
Anthropic 1506 90% $10.001M tools
7 Kimi K3
moonshotai/kimi-k3
Moonshot AI 1503 89% $6.001.048576M tools
8 Gemini 3.7 Flash
google/gemini-3.7-flash
Google 1502 89% $1.501.048576M tools
9 GLM 5.3
z-ai/glm-5.3
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1500 88% $2.151.31072M tools
10 GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1500 88% $0.241.31072M tools
11 Qwen3.7 Max
qwen/qwen3.7-max
Qwen (Alibaba) 1497 88% $2.211M tools
12 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902
Qwen (Alibaba) 1497 87% $3.001M tools
13 Gemini 3.5 Flash
google/gemini-3.5-flash
Google 1493 86% $3.381.048576M tools
14 Gemini 3.6 Flash
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Google 1492 86% $1.501.048576M tools
15 Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Anthropic 1492 86% $6.001M tools
16 GPT-5.6 Sol
openai/gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAI 1484 84% $4.001.05M tools
17 Kimi K2.6
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Moonshot AI 1483 84% $1.71262K tools
18 GLM 5.1
z-ai/glm-5.1
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1483 84% $1.49205K tools
19 Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Anthropic 1480 83% $10.001M tools
20 GLM 5.2
z-ai/glm-5.2
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1480 83% $1.491.048576M tools
21 GPT-5.6 Terra
openai/gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAI 1479 82% $4.501.05M tools
22 Grok 4.5
x-ai/grok-4.5
xAI 1477 82% $3.00500K tools
23 Qwen3.8 27B
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Qwen (Alibaba) 1475 81% $1.061M tools
24 Claude Sonnet 5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
Anthropic 1475 81% $4.001M tools
25 Qwen3.7 Plus
qwen/qwen3.7-plus
Qwen (Alibaba) 1473 81% $0.561M tools

Capability: Arena leaderboard dataset (CC-BY-4.0), Arena text / industry_software_and_it_services, published 2026-09-02. Pricing: OpenRouter, retrieved 2026-09-10. (input x 3 + output x 1) / 4.

What this measures: Human pairwise preference votes. Measures perceived answer quality on this category, not correctness on a fixed test set. For each model this is the probability it beats the board leader in a head-to-head human vote — 0.50 means a dead tie and is the best possible value.

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