Best AI Models for Roo Code
Roo Code is a VS Code extension for AI-assisted development with multiple modes. It supports various models and benefits from strong code generation and instruction following.
What Matters for Roo Code
Best Models for Roo Code
Top 15 by tool-optimized score
All Models Ranked for Roo Code (378 models)
Scored by: benchmark performance (90%) from MMLU, GPQA, HumanEval, SWE-bench, and 15+ standardized evaluations, with capabilities and context as tiebreakers (10%).
More Tool Rankings
Based on our analysis of coding benchmarks, capability matching, and pricing, Qwen3.8 Max currently ranks #1 for Roo Code. Rankings are rebuilt as benchmark, pricing, and provider data refresh.
We score models using benchmark performance (90%) from LMArena, HumanEval, SWE-bench, MMLU, and 15+ standardized evaluations. Capabilities and context serve as tiebreakers (10%). Only models with the capabilities Roo Code needs are included in the tool-specific rankings.
We currently track 378 AI models compatible with Roo Code. This includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and other providers accessible via API.
Many open-source models are compatible with Roo Code through API providers like OpenRouter, Together AI, and Groq. Check our rankings to see which open-source models perform best.
Rankings refresh whenever the underlying benchmark, pricing, and catalog sources refresh. That means some signals update faster than others, and the page reflects the latest verified source data available.