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The Vibe Coding Index

A full benchmarking deck for AI coding models — quality, price, speed and latency in one place. The Vibe Father runs them all, so we've no reason to pick a favourite.

Models tracked
22
Coding suites
3
in the index
Blended price range
$0.53–$20
per 1M tokens
Data snapshot
Jul 9, 2026
verified + cited
✓ Verified data — every figure is cited. See sources.

The composite

Top 10 by Vibe Coding Index

Five coding suites, weighted and normalised to 0–100. Longer bar is better.

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Cost × quality

Quality vs price — the efficient frontier

Index against blended token cost (log scale). Up and to the LEFT is better: more quality per dollar.

↖ Best value Premium ↗ ↙ Budget Poor value ↘ 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 $0.32 $1 $3.16 $10 $31.62 BLENDED COST — $ / 1M TOKENS (LOG, 3:1 IN:OUT) VIBE CODING INDEX Claude Fable 5 Grok 4.5 MiniMax M3
Efficient frontier Alibaba Anthropic DeepSeek Google MiniMax Moonshot AI OpenAI xAI Hover, tap or focus a point · dashed lines = medians 10 model(s) hidden — data not yet verified

Speed × quality

Quality vs output speed

Index against generation throughput. Up and to the RIGHT is better: smart and fast.

↖ Smart but slow Fast & smart ↗ ↙ Laggards Fast but shallow ↘ 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 0 48 96 144 192 240 OUTPUT SPEED — TOKENS / SECOND VIBE CODING INDEX Claude Fable 5 Grok 4.5 MiniMax M3 Qwen3.7 Max
Efficient frontier Alibaba Anthropic DeepSeek Google MiniMax Moonshot AI OpenAI xAI Hover, tap or focus a point · dashed lines = medians 10 model(s) hidden — data not yet verified

Blended price — $/M, low → high

all →
GPT-5.5
MiniMax M2.1
DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)
GLM 5.2
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi K2.6
Gemini 3 Pro
Grok 4.20

Output speed — tok/s, high → low

all →
Qwen3.7 Max
204
Gemini 3.5 Flash
167
Gemini 3.1 Pro
147
Claude Haiku 4.5
96
MiniMax M3
95
Grok 4.5
91
Claude Sonnet 5
89
GPT-5.3 Codex
87

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