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Best LLMs for AI agents

Models built or recognised for agentic use: reliable tool calling, multi-step planning, endurance on long tasks. Ranked by Elo, proprietary and open-weight together — the table shows which ones you can self-host.

#ModelArena EloContextHostingLicence
1🇺🇸Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
15071MAPIproprietary
2🇺🇸Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
14921MAPIproprietary
3🇺🇸Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
14921MAPIproprietary
4🇺🇸Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google
14911MEU optionproprietary
5🇺🇸GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
14831MAPIproprietary
6🇺🇸Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google
14801MAPIproprietary
7🇨🇳Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba
14791MAPIproprietary
8🇺🇸Grok 4.5
xAI
1470500KAPIproprietary
9🇺🇸Gemma 4 31B
Google
1451256KSelf-hostableapache-2.0
10🇨🇳Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
Alibaba
1441262KSelf-hostableapache-2.0
Data verified on 4 September 2026Open in the comparator

Method

Deterministic ranking on comparator data: LMArena Elo (style control) first, HuggingFace downloads second for models without an Elo. Prices and licences are verified at the official source and dated. No model is ranked by an LLM.

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