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AI Providers Comparison

74 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.

74
Providers
469
Total Models
30
3+ Models
12
Offer Free Models

Major Providers - Ranked by Top Model Score

#ProviderModelsTop Score
1Anthropic3096
2OpenAI10093
3Google4592
4xAI1089
5DeepSeek1783
6Alibaba4371
7Zhipu AI2070
8Meta870
9Mistral AI2168
10MiniMax764
11Cohere652
12Moonshot AI948
13Liquid AI540
14Tencent840
15meta940
16NVIDIA1140
17StepFun340
18inclusionai440
19aion-labs540
20Xiaomi540
21~deepseek340
22~openai540
23sakana440
24ByteDance740
25thinkingmachines340
26~anthropic4-
27Amazon5-
28Perplexity5-
29HUMAIN4-
30TII7-

Capability Coverage by Provider

ProviderVisionToolsReasoningJSONWeb Search
Anthropic✓✓✓✓✓
OpenAI✓✓✓✓✓
Google✓✓✓✓✓
xAI✓✓✓✓✓
DeepSeek✓✓✓✓✗
Alibaba✓✓✓✓✗
Zhipu AI✓✓✓✓✗
Meta✓✓✗✓✗
Mistral AI✓✓✓✓✗
MiniMax✓✓✓✓✗
Cohere✓✓✓✓✗
Moonshot AI✓✓✓✓✗
Liquid AI✗✓✓✓✗
Tencent✓✓✓✓✗
meta✓✓✓✓✓
Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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