👨‍💻 Coding Assistant frontier

As of October 25, 2026, the highest Coding Assistant score on this frontier is Gemini 4 Argon at 98.2, with an estimated monthly cost of $69.00.

A pair-programming assistant for IDE / agent loops. Heavy on coding benchmarks, with a real-world agentic component (SWE-bench) and some weight on cost since coding loops burn tokens. A small slice goes to the recovery-rate reliability axis because real-world agent loops live or die on whether the model self-corrects.

The y axis is this scenario's weighted score; the x axis starts at estimated monthly cost for 200 requests a day. Switch axes to compare against speed, latency or context. See the full ranking.