The Capitals.

The key players — the dominant labs and flagship models.

Claude Code

Anthropic

Top Ranked

Terminal-native agent that consistently ranks #1 across independent benchmarks; works in terminal, IDE and browser.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

Claude Cowork

Anthropic

Flagship

Desktop agent for macOS and Windows that edits files, organises folders, synthesises research and runs scheduled multi-step tasks in a privacy-first sandbox.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

Flagship

The current flagship (with Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5); at or near the top for complex multi-file coding and long-context technical work, and the most natural for prose.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google

Top Ranked

Leads most published reasoning benchmarks and has the cheapest output among the majors; paired with Gemini Spark for long cloud tasks.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

HappyHorse

Alibaba

Top Ranked

Currently tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

Nano Banana Pro

Google

Top Ranked

Gemini 3 Pro Image; leads the image-arena leaderboard, with the best multilingual text rendering, free in the Gemini app.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02

Seedance 2.0

ByteDance

Top Ranked

Currently tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

Updated 2026-06-02 · Review by 2026-06-02