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Best LLM for Documentation from Code
Ranked models for generating docstrings and technical docs that match code behavior.
Provisional leader
gpt-5-2025-08-07
Best current option from the available benchmark evidence, but not yet a strong winner claim.
external/openai/gpt-5-2025-08-07
24.9%
Score
29.6%
Confidence
29
Evidence
Ranked Models
30
Evidence Quality
80%
Evidence Points
29
Top Signal
Aider Polyglot Leaderboard: percent_correct_pct
All Ranked Models
| Rank | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | gpt-5-2025-08-07 Strong on Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct | 24.9% |
| 🥈 | claude-sonnet-4 Strong on Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC and SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct | 22.3% |
| #4 | gemini-2.5-pro Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and LEXam Leaderboard average_score_pct | 19.8% |
| #5 | gpt-4.1-20250414 Strong on Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC and OpenVLM OCRBench Official ocrbench_score_pct | 18.8% |
| #7 | gpt-4o-2024-05-13 Strong on RepoQA Official Results overall_average_pass_at_1_pct and RepoQA Official Results all_average_pass_at_1_pct | 18.1% |
| #8 | gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 Strong on Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct and LEXam Leaderboard average_score_pct | 18.1% |
| #9 | gemini-3-pro-preview Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct | 17.1% |
| #10 | deepseek-r1 Strong on Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and LEXam Leaderboard average_score_pct | 16.4% |
| #11 | gpt-4.1 Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct | 15.7% |
| #13 | gpt-4o Strong on LEXam Leaderboard average_score_pct and OpenVLM OCRBench Official ocrbench_score_pct | 15.1% |
| #14 | gpt-4.1-mini-20250414 Strong on Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC and OpenVLM OCRBench Official ocrbench_score_pct | 14.3% |
| #16 | gpt-5.2-2025-12-11 Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct | 14.1% |
| #17 | o3-20250416 Strong on Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct | 13.8% |
| #18 | gemini-3.1-pro-preview Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 13.6% |
| #21 | gpt-4o-20241120 Strong on Aider Code Editing Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and BigCodeBench Official bigcodebench_complete_pct | 13.2% |
| #22 | Kimi K2 Thinking Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Sonar Java Quality Leaderboard functional_skill_pct | 12.9% |
| #25 | qwen-2.5-72b-instruct Strong on Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC and Aider Code Editing Leaderboard percent_correct_pct | 12.4% |
| #28 | Grok-4-0709 Strong on Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct and Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC | 12.0% |
| #30 | gemini-3-flash-preview Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 11.4% |
| #31 | claude-opus-4-5-20251101 Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Vals Terminal-Bench 2 overall_accuracy_pct | 11.4% |
| #32 | gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 11.4% |
| #33 | claude-sonnet-4.6 Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 11.1% |
| #34 | o4-mini Strong on Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 11.1% |
| #35 | claude-opus-4-6-thinking Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 10.9% |
| #36 | glm-4.7 Strong on Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct | 10.9% |
| #37 | minimax-m2.1 Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 10.9% |
| #40 | claude-opus-4 Strong on SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct and Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct | 10.7% |
| #41 | gpt-5.1-2025-11-13 Strong on Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct | 10.5% |
| #42 | claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking Strong on Vals SWE-bench overall_accuracy_pct and Vals LiveCodeBench overall_accuracy_pct | 10.5% |
| #44 | gemini-2.5-flash Strong on LanguageBench Grammar/Clarity Official (Split) grammar_clarity_score_pct and Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC | 9.9% |
Head-to-Head: #1 vs #2
#1
Top Pickgpt-5-2025-08-07
Strong on Aider Polyglot Leaderboard percent_correct_pct and SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct
Conf 29.6%
#2
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Strong on Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 Avg AC and SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard swe_verified_resolved_pct
Conf 30.0%
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