I kept opening the Vercel AI Gateway catalog, staring at a few hundred models, and still not knowing which one to route this week.
Prices move. Discounts show up. A model family can look private while the cheap endpoint trains on prompts. Leaderboards help, but they do not answer the actual shipping question: what should I use right now, and on which route?
So I built bestmodels.dev.
It ranks the live AI Gateway catalog every week from adoption, DeepsecBench, and Artificial Analysis. You get picks by job:
bestmodels.dev ranks Vercel AI Gateway models every week from the live catalog, 7-day adoption, and DeepsecBench. Open it for this week's value and frontier picks, with a ZDR + no-training badge on the route that actually qualifies.
Independent, open source, and free. Privacy and open lanes stay separate. Methodology is public. JSON and weekly archives are on the site.
