Current defaults by use case.
Reviewed Jul 24, 2026 · Benchmark, price, speed, and human preference.
Production assistants and internal tools.
Anthropic
Current Sonnet balance of agency, quality, and cost.
Google
Fast, low-cost agentic throughput.
Highest-confidence production work.
Kimi
New open-frontier pressure.
Z AI
Recent reasoning price/performance.
Fast, cheap high-throughput lane.
Alibaba
Open-ish frontier compression.