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Model shortlist

Best coding model APIs for agents and code review

Compare coding-oriented model APIs by context length, tool support, JSON output, latency estimate, price, and recommended production role.

Waar is deze shortlist voor?

Coding model selection depends on repository size, tool-calling needs, instruction reliability, and the cost of long output. A coding assistant that reads a large codebase needs different economics from a short code-completion feature. NextModel highlights coding candidates with context length, tool support, price, and best-use guidance so teams can choose a primary model and a fallback policy.

Bronbasis: NextModel use-case taxonomy and OpenRouter supported-parameter metadata when available.

Fit score

Aanbevolen kandidaten coding models

Begin met de shortlist, test daarna echte prompts en vergelijk de maandelijkse kosten voor productie-routing.

AnthropicCatalog

Opus 4.7 is the next generation of Anthropic's Opus family, built for long-running, asynchronous agents. Building on the coding and agentic strengths of Opus 4.6, it delivers stronger performance on...

$5 / 1M tokensInput$25 / 1M tokensOutput1MContext
Best forfrontier reasoning, large codebase review, strategy analysis
RoutingConfigured
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextReasoningStreamingVision
OpenRouter if availableOpenRouter public Models API live metadata; public price comes from the registry pricing rule
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AnthropicCatalog

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with...

$3 / 1M tokensInput$15 / 1M tokensOutput1MContext
Best forcoding agents, code review, complex writing
RoutingConfigured
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextReasoningStreamingVision
OpenRouter if availableOpenRouter public Models API live metadata; public price comes from the registry pricing rule
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DeepSeekCatalog

DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass....

$0.7 / 1M tokensInput$2.50 / 1M tokensOutput163.8kContext
Best forChinese reasoning, math, analysis
RoutingConfigured
JSON modeLong contextReasoningStreamingTool calling
OpenRouter if availableOpenRouter public Models API live metadata; public price comes from the registry pricing rule
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VolcengineCatalog

Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini is an admin-staged public catalog draft sourced from Runtime Routing Provider.

¥0.2 / 1M tokensInput¥2 / 1M tokensOutput128kContext
Best forCoding
RoutingConfigured
StreamingJSON mode
Platform curatedNextModel admin-published catalog version; public metadata only, with live routing managed separately.
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Vergelijkingstabel

Vergelijk de shortlist op prijs, provider, context, capaciteiten en bron.

Gebruik dit overzicht om een productieshortlist te verkleinen, een fallbackbeleid op te bouwen of modeleconomie te vergelijken.

ModelProviderInputOutputContextCapabilitiesBest forLatencyStatusSource
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7anthropic/claude-opus-4.7Anthropic$5 / 1M tokens$25 / 1M tokens1M
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextReasoning
frontier reasoning, large codebase review2300-6800msCatalogOpenRouter if available
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5Anthropic$3 / 1M tokens$15 / 1M tokens1M
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextReasoning
coding agents, code review1600-4800msCatalogOpenRouter if available
DeepSeek: R1deepseek/deepseek-r1DeepSeek$0.7 / 1M tokens$2.50 / 1M tokens163.8k
JSON modeLong contextReasoningStreaming
Chinese reasoning, math1800-6000msCatalogOpenRouter if available
Doubao Seed 2.0 Minidoubao-seed-2-0-miniVolcengine¥0.2 / 1M tokens¥2 / 1M tokens128k
StreamingJSON mode
Coding900-2600msCatalogPlatform curated
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeek$0.112 / 1M tokens$0.224 / 1M tokens1M
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextReasoning
low-cost Chinese tasks, long-context summary800-2600msCatalogOpenRouter if available
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plusqwen/qwen3-coder-plusAlibaba Cloud / Qwen$0.65 / 1M tokens$3.25 / 1M tokens1M
Tool callingJSON modeLong contextStreaming
Chinese engineering workflows, code generation1200-3900msCatalogOpenRouter if available

FAQ

Coding models FAQ

What makes a model good for coding agents?

Long context, reliable tool calling, structured output, and stable instruction following matter more than raw token price alone.

How should teams control coding-agent cost?

Use budget policies, compare output-heavy token cost, and route simple tasks to lower-cost models before escalating difficult tasks.