Best AI models for chat
Chat prioritizes latency, personality, and cost per million tokens — not benchmark max scores.
The podium
Top 3 picks
🥇Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5Fast, cheap, surprisingly smart.
speed
10.0
writing
8.0
value
10.0
200K context$1.00 / $5.00
🥈Google
Gemini 3 FlashCheap, fast, 2M-token context.
speed
10.0
writing
7.0
value
10.0
2M context$0.30 / $1.20
🥉Google
Gemini Nano 2On-device first. Free inference, private by default.
speed
10.0
writing
6.0
value
10.0
32K contextFree / Free
Full ranking
Runners-up
| # | Model | Context | Price /M | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | GPT-5 Mini OpenAI | 200K | $0.40 / $1.60 | View → |
| 5 | Mistral Small 3 Mistral | 128K | $0.20 / $0.60 | View → |
| 6 | GPT-OSS 20B OpenAI | 128K | $0.15 / $0.60 | View → |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 1M | $3.00 / $15.00 | View → |
| 8 | Qwen 3 Coder Alibaba | 128K | $0.50 / $1.50 | View → |
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