52 AI providers compared side-by-side. See how OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, and others stack up on model count, quality scores, pricing, and capability coverage.
| Provider | Vision | Tools | Reasoning | JSON | Web Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anthropic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| xAI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xiaomi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| ByteDance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Alibaba | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Moonshot AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Perplexity | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NVIDIA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MiniMax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| arcee-ai | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inception | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Mistral AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Amazon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Providers are ranked by their top model's composite score, which reflects quality across benchmarks, capabilities, pricing, and context windows. We also show model count, average score across all models, pricing range, and the number of free and open-source models offered by each provider.
Value depends on your needs. Providers with many budget and free models (like Google and Meta) offer lower costs. Providers like OpenAI and Anthropic lead on top-end quality but at higher prices. Use our capability coverage table to find providers that match your specific requirements for vision, tools, reasoning, and JSON mode.
Open-source providers (like Meta with Llama, or Mistral) release model weights that anyone can download and self-host, offering maximum flexibility and no per-token costs if self-hosted. Proprietary providers (like OpenAI and Anthropic) only offer models through paid APIs. Many providers offer both types. The OSS column in our table shows how many open-source models each provider contributes.