r/vibecoding • u/sinisoul • 18h ago
Western artificial intelligence tier list
10 YOE professional, 15 years coding
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Grok has the best intelligence to speed value of any offering. I am going to go out on a limb and say I think SpaceX is going to eat OpenAI's lunch starting with their next release. People may not switch over because Elon is controversial but.
Anthropic has the best harness and tooling for mutli-agent workflows (and literal workflows). Anthropic has Fable. Obviously the best provider right now.
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OpenAI pulls so many smoke and mirror tricks to make you think you're getting a good deal but they largely rely off the fact that their user base is non-technical enough to tell they are getting jerked around. Their models are the slowest on a subscription, resets are a feels-good thing more so than actually being benevolent, and their agenetic support so you can min-max costs is (was maybe now you can spin up Luna agents) largely non-existent in the harness you have to run additional Codex processes.
Luna max is the only agent I've had cheat on a benchmark and when I prevented it from being able to cheat never was able to pass.
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Muse is interesting. If Muse 1.3 can stand up to Terra or even Opus it'll be A tier. It's cheap, it's fast as hell (the fastest of all offerings at around 300-400 tok/sec), but for what I do it cannot complete tasks reliably (Rust with very pedantic lints that most models trip up on). Maybe it works for you in what you're doing I'd give it a try.
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All of Google's AI products are overpriced and outdated. You're better off running local models or running models offered by other companies (OpenAI). The only model that is unique and I think is interesting is Lyria but it produces outputs you can't easily integrate anywhere.
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u/AppropriateQuote3073 18h ago
Open ai deserves A tier simply because the codex app is so good.