Best LLM for coding
Ranked by SWE-bench Verified, the most widely reported real-world coding benchmark (resolving real GitHub issues). Every score links to its source.
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Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic88.6% ↗
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Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic87.6% ↗
3
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic85.2% ↗
4
Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic80.8% ↗
6
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic79.6% ↗
8
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle78% ↗
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Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI77.6% ↗
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Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic77.2% ↗
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Qwen3.6 27BQwen77.2% ↗
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Step 3.7 FlashStepFun76.5% ↗
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Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDance Seed76.5% ↗
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Qwen3.5 397B-A17BQwen76.4% ↗
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Qwen3.5 27BQwen75% ↗
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Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic74.5% ↗
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Step 3.5 FlashStepFun74.4% ↗
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MAI-Thinking-1Microsoft73.5% ↗
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Qwen3.6 35B-A3BQwen73.4% ↗
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Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic73.3% ↗
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DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek73.1% ↗
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Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic72.7% ↗
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Claude Opus 4Anthropic72.5% ↗
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GPT-5 miniOpenAI71% ↗
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Qwen3-Coder-NextQwen70.6% ↗
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Solar Open 2 250B-A15BUpstage70.4% ↗
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Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic70.3% ↗
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B NVFP4NVIDIA69.7% ↗
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