Best AI Agents for Mobile Apps
The best LLM for building mobile apps is Claude Opus 4.6, rated 1280 in Design Arena's mobile-app agent arena. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1272) and Claude Opus 4.8 (1257) round out the top three.
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claude-opus-4.6ReasoningToolsJSON+137.8 intel · $5.00/M · 1M ctx1280Agent Elo - 2claude-sonnet-4.6ReasoningToolsJSON+135.9 intel · $3.00/M · 1M ctx1272Agent Elo
- 3claude-opus-4.8ReasoningToolsJSON+155.7 intel · $5.00/M · 72 t/s1257Agent Elo
- 4claude-fable-5ReasoningToolsJSON+159.9 intel · $10.00/M · 64 t/s1256Agent Elo
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minimax-m3ReasoningToolsJSON+144.4 intel · $0.300/M · 108 t/s1245Agent Elo - 6claude-sonnet-5ReasoningToolsJSON+153.4 intel · $2.00/M · 80 t/s1232Agent Elo
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kimi-k2.6ReasoningToolsJSON+144.2 intel · $0.589/M · 141 t/s1223Agent Elo - 8
glm-5.2ReasoningToolsJSON51.1 intel · $0.760/M · 135 t/s1222Agent Elo - 9glm-5.1ReasoningToolsJSON40.2 intel · $0.966/M · 78 t/s1219Agent Elo
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gemini-3.5-flashReasoningToolsJSON+250.2 intel · $1.50/M · 270 t/s1218Agent Elo - 11
qwen3.7-maxReasoningToolsJSON46.0 intel · $1.48/M · 45 t/s1210Agent Elo - 12
gpt-5.5ReasoningToolsJSON+154.8 intel · $5.00/M · 80 t/s1210Agent Elo - 13kimi-k2.5ReasoningToolsJSON+135.4 intel · $0.570/M · 262K ctx1206Agent Elo
- 14kimi-k2.7-codeReasoningToolsJSON+141.9 intel · $0.730/M · 154 t/s1204Agent Elo
- 15glm-5ReasoningToolsJSON39.5 intel · $0.950/M · 205K ctx1197Agent Elo
- 16glm-5v-turboReasoningToolsJSON+134.5 intel · $1.20/M · 33 t/s1192Agent Elo
- 17glm-4.7ReasoningToolsJSON33.7 intel · $0.400/M · 205K ctx1168Agent Elo
- 18gpt-5.6-terraReasoningToolsJSON+155.0 intel · $1.00/M · 83 t/s1166Agent Elo
- 19glm-4.6vReasoningToolsJSON+111.0 intel · $0.300/M · 131K ctx1155Agent Elo
- 20glm-4.6ReasoningToolsJSON23.0 intel · $0.500/M · 205K ctx1155Agent Elo
- 21gpt-5.2ReasoningToolsJSON+142.2 intel · $1.75/M · 400K ctx1153Agent Elo
- 22gemini-3.1-pro-previewReasoningToolsJSON+246.5 intel · $2.00/M · 136 t/s1151Agent Elo
- 23gemini-3-flash-previewReasoningToolsJSON+2$0.500/M · 1.0M ctx1151Agent Elo
- 24gpt-5.2-codexReasoningToolsJSON+140.1 intel · $1.75/M · 400K ctx1149Agent Elo
- 25gpt-5.4ReasoningToolsJSON+151.4 intel · $2.50/M · 1.1M ctx1147Agent Elo
How this is ranked
Models ranked by Design Arena Elo in the mobile-app agent arena — building working mobile applications from a brief, judged head to head by humans. Mobile punishes models that can't keep platform conventions, navigation and state straight across files, which is why this ranking diverges from general coding scores.
Frequently asked
Which LLM is best for mobile apps?
The best LLM for building mobile apps is Claude Opus 4.6, rated 1280 in Design Arena's mobile-app agent arena. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1272) and Claude Opus 4.8 (1257) round out the top three.
Which AI is best at building mobile apps?
The best AI model for building mobile apps is Claude Opus 4.6, rated 1280 in Design Arena's mobile-app agent arena. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1272) and Claude Opus 4.8 (1257) round out the top three.
What's a good alternative to Claude Opus 4.6?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1272) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Claude Opus 4.8 (1257). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.