Best coding model — Above $5 / M: moonshotai/kimi-k3 overtook anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
model id anthropic/claude-opus-4.8model id moonshotai/kimi-k3
Leader change
The top-ranked model for Best coding model — Above $5 / M changed from anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 to moonshotai/kimi-k3, measured on token volume through OpenRouter.
Occurred
12 August 2026
The day the change took effect, where the vendor said so.Observed
12 August 2026
The night this site read it and saw a difference.Severity
Medium
How much it changes what the tool costs or what you get free.Confidence
High
From an API — a repository status or an ownership record.What changed
- Was, and is now
model id anthropic/claude-opus-4.8model id moonshotai/kimi-k3
- What it means
- The top-ranked model for Best coding model — Above $5 / M changed from anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 to moonshotai/kimi-k3, measured on token volume through OpenRouter.
- Evidence
- See the evidence
- How this was found
- Derived from an API — a repository status or an ownership record, not a reading of a marketing page. Source: auto.
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| Best coding model — Under $1 / M: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 overtook tencent/hy3The board | Leader change | model id tencent/hy3model id deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | high | |
| Best coding model — Under $1 / M: tencent/hy3 overtook z-ai/glm-5.2The board | Leader change | model id z-ai/glm-5.2model id tencent/hy3 | high | |
| Best coding model — Under $1 / M: z-ai/glm-5.2 overtook tencent/hy3The board | Leader change | model id tencent/hy3model id z-ai/glm-5.2 | high |
