Best LLMs for coding & code review
Code generation, refactors, reviews, debugging. Every model in the catalog, ranked three ways and priced at a realistic 20M input / 5M output tokens a month for this task.
What the engine picks on the default cost/quality/speed mix before you touch a slider.
Top task score (99/100) at $225/mo for this volume.
The cheapest model that stays close to the leader on quality — 89/100 at $7.70/mo.
By quality
Highest task score first.
Best value
Most quality per dollar of monthly spend.
Cheapest
Lowest monthly cost at this volume.
Fit to your volume
The ranking above prices a typical month. Enter your own coding & code review volume and, if you like, a monthly ceiling — the picks re-rank as you type. No signup.
| Model | Quality | Per month | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 nano OpenAI | 72 | $3.00 | 24.00 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral | 74 | $3.50 | 21.14 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google | 70 | $4.00 | 17.50 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast xAI | 82 | $6.50 | 12.62 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | 89 | $7.70 | 11.56 |
| Qwen3 235B Alibaba (Qwen) | 86 | $8.80 | 9.77 |
| Llama 4 Maverick Meta | 80 | $9.65 | 8.29 |
| GPT-5 mini OpenAI | 85 | $15.0 | 5.67 |
Value = quality points per dollar of monthly spend at your volume. Quality scores are benchmark-informed estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before migrating.
Price your own coding & code review volume
These rankings use a typical monthly volume. Plug in your real token counts and the free estimator re-ranks every model on cost and quality.
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Prices are list $/1M tokens, hand-maintained from public provider pricing. Quality scores are benchmark-informed 0-100 estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before moving production traffic. Not affiliated with any model provider. Compare Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2