Stop guessing which AI gateway model to use

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:

• Bang-for-buck

• Workhorse

• Cheap router

• Frontier

• Rising

ZDR + no-training is a badge on the priced route, not a vibes list for the whole family.

Independent, open source, not affiliated with Vercel. Methodology is public. The weekly snapshot is also JSON if you want to pipe it into something.

Curious what you optimize for first when you pick a Gateway model: cost, quality, or the privacy route?