Best model for autonomous agents

Which model should I use to build an agent?

How this ranking is built

Criterion: highest agentic index, among models that support tool calling. An agent needs to call tools. Models without tool support are excluded regardless of their score, because they cannot do the job at all.

This is a query, not an opinion. Both figures are shown on every row so you can check the order, and the table sorts on any column if you disagree with our criterion.

Two things to know before trusting this table. Capability scores are published by Artificial Analysis and relayed by the catalogue we read. They are not our measurement, and a score measures the model rather than the seller, so we apply it to every seller of that model. This ranking says nothing about speed or reliability, which we measure only in part: availability is published per upstream host in reliability.json and on the model pages, and we publish no latency at all, for reasons given on the data page. Prices are ours to observe, each carries the date we saw it, and we keep only the cheapest offer per model so that batch and free tiers do not crowd out the answer.

116 models meet this criterion. The table shows the first 40, so 76 ranked below the cut are not listed here; the full catalogue holds them all.

A model missing from this table is missing one of the two figures, not judged. We would rather show a shorter list than fill it with guesses.

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