# BestSuperintelligent

> Independent research on AI coding tools, agents, and other intelligent software. Criteria are published, claims are labelled, and no ranking is published until a test is. No product has completed independent testing yet; claims are labelled vendor-reported, independently measured, or editorial interpretation.

## Key pages
- [Blog: guides, research, and analysis](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/): Guides on choosing AI tools, research explainers, and policy entries, each with an author, a date, and sources. No product review is published here until a test is.
- [AI tools evaluation queue](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/best-tools/): Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist, OpenAI Codex, and other tools we plan to test. Alphabetical. Not a ranking or a recommendation.
- [AI software categories](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/categories/): Coding, agents, research, writing, image, speech, and data. Each category lists who it is for and the questions a future evaluation will answer. No ranking is published yet.
- [Model finder: which AI models should you test?](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/finder/): Answer five questions and get up to three AI models to test, with an estimated monthly cost, the reasons, what is unknown and a test plan. A shortlist, not a ranking. Runs in your browser.
- [AI API cost calculator: monthly cost by model](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/calculator/): Enter your requests and token sizes and see the estimated monthly cost of 14 AI models side by side, from list prices as supplied. Cost only, not a ranking. Runs in your browser.
- [AI models: list prices, context windows and release dates](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/): 14 AI models with supplied list prices, context windows and release dates, the source to check each against, and what is still unknown. No benchmark scores and no ranking.
- [Model data: JSON and CSV for AI model prices](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/data/): Download AI model list prices, context windows and release dates as JSON or CSV under CC BY 4.0. Figures are as supplied and not yet re-verified. No benchmark scores.
- [AI tool comparisons](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/compare/): GitHub Copilot vs Cursor, Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex, and hosted vs self-managed deployment. The questions are set. No winner is declared until a test is published.
- [Enterprise & government](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/enterprise/): Practical guidance for evaluating deployment options, security claims, procurement requirements, and authorization evidence.
- [Procurement guidance](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/enterprise/procurement/): What to pin down before buying intelligent software: scope, deployment, evidence, and contract questions.
- [Security & authorization evidence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/enterprise/security-evidence/): How we record security, compliance, and authorization claims: exact product, deployment, program, scope, source, and verification date.
- [Research](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/): Our approach to capability benchmarks, product intelligence, an evidence library, and technical explainers, with their limits.
- [Benchmarks](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/benchmarks/): The requirements every benchmark we publish must meet. No benchmark results have been published yet.
- [Glossary](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/glossary/): Plain-language definitions of terms used across the site: benchmark contamination, agentic workflow, hosted and self-managed deployment, superintelligence, and our evidence labels.
- [Policy tracker](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/policy-tracker/): How we track AI policy: enacted rules, proposals, agency guidance, and commentary, each with a primary source and explicit status.
- [Methodology](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/methodology/): How products are evaluated: six dimensions, proposed weights, minimum evidence rules, and how commercial relationships are kept out of scoring.
- [Guides to evaluating AI tools](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/): How to read an evaluation, separate a vendor claim from a finding, trial a coding assistant on your own code, and check a security page before you buy.
- [Privacy notice](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/privacy/): What this site collects, what it does not, and how newsletter email addresses are handled. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising trackers.
- [History: every article, review and update](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/history/): A chronological index of everything published or changed on BestSuperintelligent: guides, research, reviews, comparisons, policy entries, site updates and corrections, each linking to its page.
- [Updates and corrections](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/updates/): A dated record of what has changed on BestSuperintelligent, including every correction.
- [About](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/about/): What BestSuperintelligent is, what it is not, and what it has and has not done so far.
- [Editorial policy](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/editorial-policy/): Our standards for evidence, independence, corrections, and the labels used across the site.
- [Affiliate disclosure](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/affiliate-disclosure/): How the site may earn revenue, how links are labelled, and why commercial relationships cannot change an evaluation.
- [Contact](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/contact/): How to reach the editorial team, and what the site can and cannot do with your message.
- [The SI Brief newsletter](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/newsletter/): Subscribe to research notes, evaluation updates, and policy developments, when a subscription service is connected.

## AI models: supplied list prices, context windows and release dates (supplied 2026-10-14; 10 list prices checked against vendor pages 2026-10-18, the rest not yet re-verified; no benchmark scores)
- [Claude Fable 5.1](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/claude-fable-5-1/): Anthropic
- [Claude Opus 5.5](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/claude-opus-5-5/): Anthropic
- [Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/claude-sonnet-5-5/): Anthropic
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash/): DeepSeek
- [Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/gemini-3-8-flash/): Google
- [GLM-5.3](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/glm-5-3/): Zhipu (Z.ai)
- [GPT-6 Astra](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/gpt-6-astra/): OpenAI
- [GPT-6 Luna](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/gpt-6-luna/): OpenAI
- [GPT-6.1 Sol](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/gpt-6-1-sol/): OpenAI
- [Grok 4.7](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/grok-4-7/): xAI
- [Kimi K3](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/kimi-k3/): Moonshot AI
- [Mistral Medium 3.5](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/mistral-medium-3-5/): Mistral
- [Muse Spark 1.3](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/muse-spark-1-3/): Meta
- [Qwen3.8 Max](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/models/qwen3-8-max/): Alibaba/Qwen

## Data
- [Models, JSON](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/api/models.json)
- [Models, CSV](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/api/models.csv)
- [Change log, JSON](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/api/changes.json)
- [About the data and licence (CC BY 4.0)](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/data/)

## Blog: guides, research, posts, and policy entries
- [Top 3 AI Stocks to Buy and the Magnificent 7 Explained](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/top-3-ai-stocks-magnificent-7/): What each of the Magnificent 7 does in AI, and which three the author sees as having the strongest case. Opinion built on third-party reports. Not financial advice and…
- [Best AI Tools in 2026: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-tools-chatgpt-claude-perplexity/): A task-routing view of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity: which job each tool is built for, where each is weaker, and why the right choice depends on the work. Editorial…
- [The Best AI for UI/UX Design Systems: Test the Handoff](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-ui-ux-design-systems/): No AI is the best for UI/UX design systems by default. Run the Accessibility-First Handoff Check on its design-to-code output and decide with evidence.
- [The Best AI for System Architecture and DevOps: How to Choose](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-system-architecture-devops/): No AI is proven best for architecture or DevOps. Score each change by blast radius and gate it with plan, diff and dry-run checks before anything ships.
- [The Best AI for SEO and Answer Engine Optimization: Test Citations](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-seo-answer-engine-optimization/): No AI tool is proven best for answer engine optimization. Use the Citation Surface Map to inventory and test every place an AI engine could quote your page.
- [The Best AI for Sales Outreach: A Personalization-Proof Test](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-sales-outreach/): No AI sales tool is proven best. Use the Personalization-Proof Test and a compliance gate to judge cold-outreach sequences, enrichment and messaging.
- [The Best AI for Product Management Is the One That Passes Your Test](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-product-management/): There is no verified best AI for product management. Use the Evidence-Backed PRD Test and a verify-cost matrix to judge PRD, roadmap and journey tools yourself.
- [The Best AI for Music Production: A Stem-Rights Test](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-music-production/): No AI music tool is proven best. Use the Stem-Rights Checklist to test provenance, licence terms, stem ownership and musical usefulness before release.
- [The Best AI for Legal Contract Analysis: Test It, Do Not Trust It](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-legal-contract-analysis/): No honest ranking of AI contract tools exists yet. Use Clause Risk Triage to judge any tool on redlining, risk extraction and cross-border IP audits.
- [The Best AI for Image Generation: Test Consistency, Not Beauty](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-image-generation/): No image generator is the best by default. Run the Consistency-Over-Beauty Test across 20 prompts to find the best AI for image generation on your own brief.
- [The Best AI for Hardware and Edge Computing: A Latency Ledger](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-hardware-edge-computing/): No AI is proven best for edge work. The Latency Budget Ledger tests whether a model fits your end-to-end latency target before you buy hardware.
- [Best AI for Financial Modeling and Investing: Match Controls](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-financial-modeling-investing/): No test crowns a best AI for investing. Model-Risk Tiers match controls to consequence, from idea generation to capital allocation. Educational, not advice.
- [The Best AI for Video Production: Score the 5-Shot Sequence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-video-production/): No AI video tool is the best by default. Use the Shot-Continuity Scorecard on a 5-shot sequence to find the best AI for video production on your own brief.
- [The Ultimate Roadmap to Building Your Own SI Agent](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/roadmap-build-your-own-si-agent/): A practical roadmap for building a narrow agent: scope, tools, permissions, tests, and logs. It does not produce a superintelligent system.
- [The 5 Most Unexpected SI News Headlines of 2026](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/unexpected-si-news-headlines-2026/): A way to read surprising superintelligence headlines from 2026, anchored on the federal naming order, without inventing a top-five news ranking.
- [10 Prompt Engineering Techniques for Peak SI Performance](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/prompt-engineering-techniques-si/): Ten prompting habits that help, and the reminder that a clever prompt is not a performance test of superintelligence.
- [The Top 10 SI Innovations in Gaming and Virtual Worlds](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-innovations-gaming-virtual-worlds/): Ten feature types in games and virtual worlds, from NPC dialogue to anti-cheat, with the player-trust questions a hype list skips.
- [10 Industries Completely Transformed by SI in 2026](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/industries-transformed-by-si-2026/): Ten industries where AI tools are sold as a full transformation, and the narrower change you can actually check.
- [5 Unsolved Mysteries in Synthetic Intelligence Research](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/unsolved-mysteries-synthetic-intelligence/): Five research questions that remain open: evaluation, generalization, data rights, oversight of agents, and what the word superintelligence should mean.
- [The 10 Best SI Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Your Data](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-cybersecurity-tools/): Ten control types buyers confuse with a single “best SI security tool,” and why this site will not rank products it has not tested.
- [10 Mind-Blowing Ways SI Is Used in Space Exploration](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-in-space-exploration/): Ten established job types for software in space programs, from scheduling to image triage, without treating a mission patch as a superintelligence claim.
- [The Top 5 SI Frameworks Every Developer Must Know](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-frameworks-developers/): Five framework choices for developers building on language models, and why “must know” is not a performance ranking.
- [10 Hidden Risks of Relying on Synthetic Intelligence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/hidden-risks-synthetic-intelligence/): Ten failure modes that show up when teams trust a model output: silent errors, data leakage, tool access, benchmark theater, and missing appeal paths.
- [The 10 Most Advanced SI Drones and Autonomous Vehicles](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-drones-autonomous-vehicles/): Why a ranking of the most advanced drones or robotaxis needs a route, a disengagement record, and a regulator, not a spec sheet.
- [10 AI Art & Media Controversies, 2023 to 2025](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/ai-art-media-controversies-2026/): Ten kinds of dispute around AI images, voice, music, and news video, framed as questions of rights and evidence rather than a gossip ranking.
- [The Top 5 Ways SI Is Reshaping Global Education](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-reshaping-global-education/): Five places schools and students meet AI tools, with the assessment, privacy, and cheating questions that a “top ways” headline leaves out.
- [10 Revolutionary SI Discoveries in Renewable Energy](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-renewable-energy-discoveries/): How to read claims that synthetic intelligence has transformed grids, forecasting, materials, and storage, without treating a press release as a discovery.
- [The 10 Best SI-Powered Wearable Devices of 2026](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/si-powered-wearables-2026/): Ten checks for any wearable sold as superintelligent or SI-powered, from on-device inference to health claims, privacy, and what has not been tested.
- [Beyond the AI Hype: TheBestSI Wants to Change How We Understand Intelligence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/thebestsi-ai-intelligence-authority/): TheBestSI joins AI software discovery, frontier model comparisons, transparent evaluation methods and research on superintelligence in one platform. A look at what it…
- [The AI Industry Has a Trust Problem. BestSuperintelligent.com Wants to Help Solve It.](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-superintelligent-ai-tools-research/): An independent AI research platform that separates vendor claims from evidence, gives buyers practical tools to choose models and estimate cost, and makes its own limits…
- [GitHub Copilot vs Cursor: what public discourse says, and what it does not decide](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/copilot-vs-cursor-public-discourse/): A dated reading of commentator posts and comparison articles on GitHub Copilot and Cursor. This is a discourse report inside our methodology. It is not a measured…
- [Three Years Watching AI Become Infrastructure](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/three-years-watching-ai-become-infrastructure/): We started out asking which chatbot was best. We ended up writing about power grids, token economics and who answers when an agent misfires. What that arc says about…
- [What is an agentic workflow?](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/what-is-an-agentic-workflow/): A plain-language definition, how agentic workflows differ from chatbots and from fully autonomous agents, the common ways they fail, and the controls that matter.
- [Benchmark contamination explained](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/benchmark-contamination-explained/): What it is, how it happens, how researchers have tried to measure and avoid it, and why it can make a public benchmark score misleading.
- [Reading benchmark claims critically](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/reading-benchmark-claims/): A checklist of questions that determine whether a benchmark number tells you anything about the tool you plan to use, with worked examples from published research.
- [Superintelligence and today's tools: keeping the terms apart](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/superintelligence-vs-current-tools/): Why the word 'superintelligence' in a brand name, a headline, or a policy document does not make a current product superintelligent, and how published definitions…
- [The Month AI Got a New Name, a New Interface, and Little New Evidence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/month-in-ai-new-name-new-interface-thin-evidence/): Since early September, the vocabulary, the interface and the release cadence of AI all moved. The independent evidence did not. A view from the desk of a site built to…
- [The 15 Best AI Apps of 2026: Free and Paid AI Tools Ranked](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/best-ai-apps-2026/): An editorial ranking of 15 AI apps, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Suno, with best uses, pricing guidance and practical tips for each.
- [EU AI Act high-risk dates: what the Digital Omnibus changed](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/eu-ai-act-high-risk-dates-digital-omnibus/): Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved the application dates for the AI Act's high-risk rules. Here is what changed, tied to the official text.
- [Executive Order 14434: what it changes for AI buyers, and what it doesn't](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/blog/executive-order-14434-what-it-changes-for-ai-buyers/): A plain reading of the order that tells US agencies to say Super Intelligence instead of AI, with each point tied to the official text.
- [Trump Wants to Rename AI “Super Intelligence.” What Actually Changes?](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/research/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand/): Executive Order 14434 orders federal agencies to scrub 'artificial intelligence' and adopt 'super intelligence.' Behind the rhetoric lies an administrative sleight of…
- [How to trial an AI research or writing tool fairly](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/how-to-trial-a-research-or-writing-tool/): A repeatable method for testing non-coding AI tools on your own work before you rely on them.
- [How to read a vendor security page](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/how-to-read-a-vendor-security-page/): Separate what a vendor states from what is evidenced, and spot the claims that should be treated as unverified.
- [Questions to ask about AI data retention and training](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/questions-about-ai-data-retention/): Five questions that expose what happens to your data in any AI tool, and how to get answers you can rely on.
- [What is an AI coding agent, and how is it different from an assistant?](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/what-is-an-ai-coding-agent/): A plain-language definition, what an agent can touch, and what to check before giving one access to your repository.
- [A procurement evidence checklist for intelligent software](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/procurement-evidence-checklist/): The facts to pin down before accepting any security, compliance, or authorization claim about a specific product.
- [Choosing a coding assistant: what to test in your own code](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/choosing-a-coding-assistant/): A practical way to trial AI coding tools on your own repositories before you rely on published comparisons.
- [Hosted vs. self-managed deployment: questions to ask](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/hosted-vs-self-managed-questions/): A neutral list of questions that expose the real trade-offs between vendor-hosted and self-managed intelligent software.
- [Vendor claims vs. verified findings](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/vendor-claims-vs-verified-findings/): How we label evidence, and why a vendor's statement about its own product is never treated as a result.
- [How to read an intelligent-software evaluation](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/guides/how-to-read-an-evaluation/): What a trustworthy evaluation shows, what to check before relying on a score, and the warning signs of one that is not.
- [NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/policy-tracker/nist-ai-risk-management-framework-1-0/): A framework published by NIST on 26 January 2023 to help organizations manage risks from AI systems. NIST's page describes it as intended for voluntary use. It is…
- [EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/policy-tracker/eu-regulation-2024-1689-artificial-intelligence-act/): The EU's regulation setting harmonised rules on artificial intelligence was published in the Official Journal on 12 July 2024 and entered into force on 1 August 2024…
- [Executive Order 14434: Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence](https://bestsuperintelligent.com/policy-tracker/us-eo-14434-inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/): Signed 29 September 2026 and published in the Federal Register on 2 October 2026, the order directs executive departments and agencies to use the terms "Super…

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