September 14 - September 20·Snapshot taken Sep 20, 2026
AI Models Weekly Report - Week 38, 2026
Snapshot of AI model rankings, biggest movers, new entries, and market dynamics for week 38 of 2026.
Key Highlights
- Claude Fable 5.1 by Anthropic holds the #1 spot with a score of 96.
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is the week's biggest gainer, climbing 14 positions.
- 7 new models entered the rankings this week.
- 454 models tracked across 61 providers.
Top 10 Overall
| # | Model | Provider | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 96 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5.1 (batch) | Anthropic | 96 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 96 |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5 (batch) | Anthropic | 96 |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | 95 |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) | Anthropic | 95 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 95 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) | Anthropic | 95 |
| 9 | GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) | OpenAI | 93 |
| 10 | GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 93 |
Biggest Gainers
Biggest Losers
New Entries
(not in previous week)GLM 5.3 FlashX
Zhipu AI · coding
GLM 5.2 (free)
Zhipu AI · coding
Qwen3.8 27B (free)
Alibaba · coding
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
prism-ml · coding
Pareto
unbiased · coding
DeepSeek Pro Latest
~deepseek · coding
DeepSeek Flash Latest
~deepseek · coding
Category Leaders
Provider Stats
| Provider | Models | Avg Score | Top Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 98 | 72 | GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) |
| Alibaba | 54 | 52 | Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
| 45 | 60 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | |
| Anthropic | 31 | 73 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Mistral AI | 24 | 44 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| DeepSeek | 21 | 53 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Zhipu AI | 19 | 74 | GLM 5.3 (batch) |
| meta | 15 | 48 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
| MiniMax | 10 | 61 | MiniMax M3 |
| NVIDIA | 10 | 40 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
Price Watch
Cheapest Model
Mistral Nemo
Mistral AI
$0.02/M in + $0.03/M out
Most Expensive
Veo 2
Free/M in + $350000.00/M out
Best Value (Score / $)
Mistral Nemo
Mistral AI
Score 40 at $0.05/M total
Week at a Glance
454
Total Models
61
Providers
426
LLM
18
Image Gen
10
Video Gen
45
Free Models