Best for coding

Discussion
1

Which is the best for programming, for writing code?

  • claude 3.5 sonnet
  • gpt 4o
  • gpt 4o-mini
  • o1-mini
  • o1-preview
  • o1
  • o3 mini
2

Hey, they all work great for coding, but I would highlight claude-3.5-sonnet among them, as it gives the best results in Cursor.

3

if you’re looking to code small features or ideate on designing some UI, which would be most of the cases when you’re coding something, Claude sonnet is the best option

If you’re looking to start a project or a big feature that requires a lot of planning, you should start with gpt 4o and then continue building each thing with claude

if you’re stuck in a loop with claude (which happens more frequently than you’d expect) you should go to o3-mini or deepseek-r1 for their reasoning abilities and find the fix there

this should cover most of coding use cases. lmk if there’s any more questions you have