Best LLM for freelance projects
- Claude Opus 5.5 leads
- 21.3%
- models ranked
- 14
- lead over #2
- +0.4 pts
Remote Labor Index · read October 21
As of October 21, 2026, Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 leads 14 models on Remote Labor Index with 21.3%, ahead of OpenAI GPT-6 Astra (20.8%) and Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 (17.9%).
The full best LLM for agents ranking combines this benchmark with others.
| Rank | Model | Remote Labor Index | Coding evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic | 21.3% | 88.8 | $20.00 | |
| 2 | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI | 20.8% | 85.1 | $50.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | 17.9% | 84.2 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | 16.1% | 79.3 | $50.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | 8.3% | 65.0 | $25.00 | |
| 6 | GPT-5.5 OpenAI | 6.3% | 71.3 | $30.00 | |
| 7 | Gemini 3.8 Flash Google | 5.8% | 61.6 | $3.75 | |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | 5.0% | 58.0 | $3.75 | |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 4.2% | 57.2 | $25.00 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic | 3.8% | 44.0 | $25.00 | |
| 11 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | 2.5% | 55.9 | $14.00 | |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | 2.1% | 39.5 | $15.00 | |
| 13 | GPT-5 OpenAI | 1.7% | 38.8 | $10.00 | |
| 14 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 Google | 0.8% | Not benchmarked | $10.00 |
How this list is built
Generated from the dataset on every refresh. Nobody picks the order by hand.
Models by their Remote Labor Index result, as the board publishes it, best first. Paid freelance projects given to an agent end to end; the number is the share it delivered at the level a client accepted.
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