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Cheapest coding LLM in 2026
Repo agents ranked with SWE-bench first under a mid-tier budget. For CI bots that cannot burn Opus prices.
Weights:SWE-bench 40%Out $ 35%Speed 15%Code Elo 10%
Current #1 Ranked PickScore 76.4 / 100
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · Open weights
SWE-bench: 71.2% (Top 26%)Out $: $0.28/1M (Top 17%)Speed: 142 tok/s (Top 19%)Code Elo: 1,516 (Top 44%)
SWE-bench: 71.2%Elo: 1,490
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Models ranked by verified benchmark weights across SWE-bench and coding preference evaluations.
Score 76.4
SWE-bench: 71.2% (Top26%)Out $: $0.28/1M (Top17%)Speed: 142 tok/s (Top19%)Code Elo: 1,516 (Top44%)
🏆 #1 Overall Leader in Category
Score 71.5
SWE-bench: 72.4% (Top21%)Out $: $1.875/1M (Top50%)Speed: 215 tok/s (Top1%)Code Elo: 1,546 (Top24%)
Rank #2vs #1
Score 71.5
SWE-bench: 75.8% (Top12%)Out $: $0.9/1M (Top35%)Speed: 90 tok/s (Top56%)Code Elo: 1,536 (Top31%)
Rank #3vs #1
Score 69.7
SWE-bench: 76.4% (Top9%)Out $: $1.8/1M (Top50%)Speed: 90 tok/s (Top56%)Code Elo: 1,586 (Top8%)
Rank #4vs #1
Score 67.6
SWE-bench: 75.8% (Top12%)Out $: $3/1M (Top63%)Speed: 190 tok/s (Top4%)Code Elo: 1,510 (Top50%)
Rank #5vs #1
Score 66.0
SWE-bench: 78.5% (Top3%)Out $: $4.4/1M (Top69%)Speed: 92 tok/s (Top51%)Code Elo: 1,585 (Top10%)
Rank #6vs #1
Score 66.0
SWE-bench: 66.8% (Top41%)Out $: $0.4/1M (Top23%)Speed: 115 tok/s (Top33%)Code Elo: 1,515 (Top46%)
Rank #7vs #1
Score 65.8
SWE-bench: 63.4% (Top51%)Out $: $0.14/1M (Top11%)Speed: 130 tok/s (Top24%)Code Elo: 1,480 (Top64%)
Rank #8vs #1
Score 61.0
SWE-bench: 70.8% (Top28%)Out $: $3.75/1M (Top65%)Speed: 198 tok/s (Top2%)Code Elo: 1,514 (Top48%)
Rank #9vs #1
Score 60.5
SWE-bench: 74.6% (Top15%)Out $: $5/1M (Top72%)Speed: 102 tok/s (Top43%)Code Elo: 1,566 (Top18%)
Rank #10vs #1
Score 59.8
SWE-bench: 61.8% (Top56%)Out $: $0.6/1M (Top27%)Speed: 188 tok/s (Top5%)Code Elo: 1,458 (Top76%)
Rank #11vs #1
Score 59.2
SWE-bench: 65.2% (Top46%)Out $: $0.72/1M (Top31%)Speed: 110 tok/s (Top39%)Code Elo: 1,495 (Top57%)
Rank #12vs #1
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Plain-English methodology and leaderboard answers
- DeepSeek V4 Flash is the current #1 on this list. Rankings move when daily ingest updates SWE-bench, Elo, price, or latency.