🏆 The AI Podium

The reference ranking of the best AI models, updated every month.

June 2026 edition

🏆 The AI Podium

Official ranking · June 2026

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Generalists

Best all-rounders

1
Claude Mythos PreviewRestricted
Anthropic·79/100·$20/$100
2
GPT-5.5
OpenAI·74/100·$5/$30
3
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI·74/100·$0.95/$4MIT

Code Specialists

SWE-bench + HumanEval

1
Claude Mythos PreviewRestricted
Anthropic·88/100·$20/$100
2
GPT-5.5
OpenAI·84/100·$5/$30
3
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic·82/100·$5/$25

Vision Specialists

Multimodal & image

1
Claude Mythos PreviewRestricted
Anthropic·77/100·$20/$100
2
GPT-5.5
OpenAI·74/100·$5/$30
3
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google·73/100·$2/$12

Multilingual Specialists

FR · EN · CN & more

1
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI·81/100·$0.95/$4MIT
2
Qwen 3 Max
Alibaba·81/100·$0.78/$3.9apache-2
3
Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI·80/100·$2/$6

Open Source

Self-hostable, free license

1
Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI·78/100·$0.2/$0.6apache-2
2
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI·71/100·$0.95/$4MIT
3
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek·71/100·$0.3/$1MIT

🔬 How is this ranking made?

A transparent algorithm combines official benchmarks, pricing, context window and freshness to score each model.

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Last update: 6/1/2026 · Auto-updated on the 1st of each month.