Most people pick one model and pay first.

I’d compare the frontier first. Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3 Max, Grok 4.6 and Qwen 3.8 Max are all usable on Arena with free daily usage. On WebDev right now: Claude Opus 5 Max Kimi K3 Max Qwen 3.8 Max Grok 4.6 and

kozh ./Sep 112

Codex built an arena shooter where movement is the real weapon

Your ship leaves a trail, close the loop and everything inside gets wiped out Opus 5 handled the ship design

Tani AsterSep 12

One grok agent built on a $5M anthropic system gives 10X the throughput and runs a business at $140K+ a month

The 10x isn't a smarter model, it's every handoff between people disappearing feed → scan → score → draft → gate → ship → numbers → back to root ten roles

SprytixSep 14

I ran the same forty tasks through four models and wrote down what each one cost me.

The result broke something in my head. On the independent Artificial Analysis index — not vendor slides, not a launch blog — Claude Opus 5 scores 63. Grok 4.6 scores 61. Kimi K3 lands right

HarishSep 1