#1
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Has the highest reported Terminal-Bench result of the three.
Terminal-Bench score89.1%
- agentic terminal coding
- repository task solving
The model that wins your task, wired into your business.
No single model wins everything. Today the leader in code is not the leader in voice, the best model for documents loses on images, and half of these positions move within a month. That is what the board below is for: the top 3 for each of 26 tasks, rebuilt every 10 days from public leaderboards and independent tests.
Then I build the thing that uses it. Agents that handle support, pipelines that read invoices and contracts, voice that answers the phone, bots that qualify leads while you sleep. It plugs into what you already run — CRM, spreadsheets, Telegram, your own API — and every step calls the model that wins that particular step, whichever provider it belongs to.
Write me on Telegram — @simvimTell me which process eats your week. I answer myself.
Programming
Programming
For repository work, terminal coding and software engineering.
Terminal-Bench measures agentic terminal coding; SWE-bench and Code Arena measure different coding workloads.
#2
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
Trails the reported leader by three tenths of a point.
Terminal-Bench score88.8%
- agentic coding tasks
- terminal workflow quality
#3
Grok 4.6
xAI
Places inside the same tightly grouped Terminal-Bench frontier.
Terminal-Bench score88.4%
- terminal task solving
- competitive coding score
How the ranking is built
There is no single “best AI model” here. Every task is judged on its own: public leaderboards, independent tests and official model data, weighed together rather than copied from one board. The whole thing is re-checked every 10 days. Two modes of the same base model never take two places in one top 3. Likes are a separate reader signal — they never move the ranking.