Methodology
What the index claims. What it does not.
Source
Rankings come from Artificial Analysis. The content-pipeline Worker snapshots their Data API (with a Firecrawl fallback) into content/leaderboard_data.json. The previous file is kept as leaderboard_data_prev.json so weekly movers can show score deltas.
Licenses
License labels are inferred from model and company names when the API does not ship a field: Qwen, Llama, Mistral, Gemma, DeepSeek, and similar families map to Open Weights; closed APIs stay Proprietary. Inference lives in workers/content-pipeline/src/license.ts and scripts/infer_license.py. If a vendor publishes a different grant, the snapshot is wrong until the next refresh.
Non-claims
- We do not run the evals. AA does.
- We do not pick a “best” model for your stack. Use case still wins.
- We do not invent versions or scores absent from the current snapshot.
- Journal posts are 1/day with randomized UTC slots. Thin comparison scorecards on
/compareare noindex.
Comparisons (BOFU)
Long-form comparison pages link back here and to the live board. They are the indexable alternative to thin /compare scorecards (noindex).
- Artificial Analysis alternatives
- Models & Makers vs Artificial Analysis
- Best AI model comparison tools in 2026
- OpenRouter alternatives
Corrections
Wrong license or a stale board: hello@modelsandmakers.com.