Best AI models for general use.

An everyday assistant needs to follow your instructions, explain clearly and handle questions from different subjects. Start with a model that covers those needs, then compare the providers offering it and the cost of your usual prompts.

The list weighs the published results that matter for general use and keeps the models close enough to the best one for a balanced task. Price picks the provider after that; it never lifts a weaker model into the list. 382 available models were considered and 42 have comparable evidence.

Each price is the cheapest provider read in the last three days, per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out.

General-use scores combine published benchmark results. They do not measure personal usefulness, response speed or the features of a particular chat app.

The ranking uses the same Balanced settings as the Ask page. The Capability methodology has the sources, the exact identity rules, the task weights and the difficulty ranges.