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Best AI for chat & writing
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Chat & writing
Which model is best for everyday questions and writing?
Our pickGemini 4 ArgonGoogle · $2 in · $10 outThe best model anyone can use, with enough evidence. When several tie, the cheapest of them.
Best you can downloadKimi K3Moonshot AI (Kimi) · No public API price · downloadOpen weights: you can run it on your own computers.
Cheaper choiceGemini 3.8 FlashGoogle · $0.75 in · $3.75 outIn the top five, about 63% cheaper than our pick.
| Place | Model | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | 100.0 | $2 in · $10 out |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 92.0 | $10 in · $50 out |
| 3 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 90.5 | $0.75 in · $3.75 out |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 90.4 | $10 in · $50 out |
| 5 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 89.4 | $2 in · $10 out |
| 6 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 88.8 | $10 in · $50 out |
| 7 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 88.4 | No public API price |
| 8 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 88.2 | $4 in · $20 out |
| 9 | Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle | 88.1 | $2 in · $12 out |
| 10 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 87.4 | No public API price |
Models with overlapping uncertainty share a place (shown as “=”). Prices are US dollars per million tokens from each company’s own price page.
Ranked by our Silicon score, from 6 tests by 4 publishers.