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Know what to use. Know what it costs.

Global AI Coding Decision Engine: Verified data provenance, task-based benchmarks, 30-sec stack wizard, and true monthly cost simulation. Zero paid placements.

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  • 119models tracked
  • 21vendors
  • 40plans compared
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⚡ 30-Second AI Coding Decision Engine

Which AI Coding Stack Should I Use?

Enter your tech stack, task, and budget to calculate the optimal setup and estimated monthly cost in 30 seconds.

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🥇 Primary: Best Modern Performance StackPeak Productivity
Claude Sonnet 5by Anthropic
⚡ Recommended Stack: Cursor Pro ($20/mo) + Claude Sonnet 5
  • Adaptive Thinking delivers state-of-the-art multi-file refactoring and type safety
  • Deeply optimized across modern IDE harnesses with near-zero code hallucination
  • Slashing input to $2.0 / output to $10.0 makes it the definitive flagship standard
Estimated Monthly Cost $118 ~ $202 / mo

Subscribe to Cursor Pro ($20/mo), with API key for overflow

🥈 Alternative: Ultra High Value StackSave ~84%
💰 Ultra-Saver Stack: Cursor Pro ($20/mo) + Gemini 3.7 Flash
  • Ultra-low cost at $0.15 / 1M input & $0.60 / 1M output
  • Native 1M token context window ideal for full codebase ingestion
  • Top-tier performance per dollar, excelling at everyday code and unit tests
Estimated Monthly Cost $26 ~ $32 / mo

Plug direct API keys for heavy daily code review without financial anxiety

💡 Architectural Recommendation: Adopt a tiered routing strategy—delegate 80% of routine completions and tests to Gemini 3.7 Flash, and switch to Claude Sonnet 5 for deep refactoring and hard concurrency bugs to achieve peak output at minimal cost.

Today's AI Coding Pulse

LIVE RADAR

Real-time tracker of price cuts, new model drops, and context expansions across the AI landscape.

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🚀 Release@GoogleDeepMind

Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash as Workhorse Model for Coding and Agents

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash, delivering massive gains in agentic coding and debugging (FrontierCode 43.6%, DeepSWE 65.3%) with Day-0 availability in Antigravity and AI Studio at introductory rates.

🌟 Open Source@Alibaba_Qwen

Alibaba Qwen Open-Weights Qwen3.8-Flash: 125B MoE Previewing Qwen4 Architecture

Alibaba Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weights 125B MoE model (6B active) previewing the Qwen4 architecture with 1/9 training cost, 262K native context, and ultra-cheap API pricing.

🚀 Release@SpaceXAI

xAI Launches Grok 4.6 for Autonomous Coding Agents at $2 / $6 per Million Tokens

xAI announced Grok 4.6, delivering major speed and reasoning enhancements tailored for long-running coding agents, with Day-0 availability in Grok Build, Cursor, and the API at $2 / $6 per million tokens.

🚀 Release@deepseek_ai

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Goes Live on API with Near-Opus 4.8 Multimodal Agent Capabilities

DeepSeek launched deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp on its API, maintaining ultra-low V4-Flash pricing while achieving multimodal coding and agent performance approaching Claude Opus 4.8.

Interactive Showcase

Benchmark, Compare, and Supercharge

From unbiased pass-rate benchmarks to transparent pricing matrices and copy-paste rules.

RankModel / LabCursorBench Pass RateAPI Input / 1MContext WindowAction
#1Claude Fable 5Anthropic
72.9%
$10.001M Compare →
#2Grok 4.6xAI
69.9%
$2.00500K Compare →
#3Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle
68.4%
$0.751.0M Compare →
#4GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
67.2%
$5.001M Compare →
#5Grok 4.5xAI
66.7%
$2.00500K Compare →
#6DeepSeek-V4Public Benchmark
65.8%
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Live desk

What the numbers say right now

Just landed on the desk.

New flagships, official numbers, source-linked. Not a press-release dump — the rows you can actually call.

Google2026-08-13

Gemini 3.7 Flash

CursorBench #3 · $0.75 / $3.75 intro

$0.75/1M1.0M context
Zhipu AI2026-08-14

GLM-5.3

+50% coding vs GLM-5.2 on Z.ai Code Bench

$1.4/1M1M context
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Cheapest coding models

Tagged coding, sorted by input $ / 1M

  1. 01Phi-4Microsoft · 16K$0.07
  2. 02Doubao Seed 2.0 LiteByteDance · 256K$0.08
  3. 03Mistral Small 4Mistral AI · 131K$0.10
  4. 04Hunyuan-TurboSTencent · 128K$0.11
  5. 05Hunyuan-T1Tencent · 128K$0.14
  6. 06Yi-Lightning01.AI · 16K$0.14
Full pricing table →

Vendors on the desk

Models tracked per lab

  • Google17
  • OpenAI16
  • Anthropic12
  • Qwen11
  • DeepSeek9
  • Zhipu AI8
  • xAI7
  • Moonshot AI6
Cost Simulation

How Much Will My Monthly Dev Bill Cost?

Simulate monthly token volume and compare flat-rate plans vs pay-as-you-go API costs

Quick Presets:
Monthly Input Tokens (Prompt)2 M tokens
Monthly Output Tokens (Completion)0.5 M tokens
DeepSeek-V3 API (PayG)Lowest Cost
$0.42/ mo
Gemini 3.7 Flash API (PayG)Best Value
$3.38/ mo
Cursor Pro (Flat Rate)Daily Driver
$20.00/ mo
Claude 3.7 Sonnet API (Direct)Top Capability
$13.50/ mo
How

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Edited by humans

All data lives in a JSON file in our public git repo. Every change is a PR, fully audited.

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Verified by robots

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Flagged when stale

If a vendor changes their page and verification fails, the row gets a yellow badge and the failure reason is shown.

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No paid placement

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