Agent workflow guide

Best AI Models for Agents

Agentic work is not just “best benchmark wins.” You need strong tool use, long-context memory, reliability, and sane cost under repeated calls.

GPT-5.4

Best for: Coding

Tool use: 9.7 • Reasoning: 9.5 • Context: 1.05M

Best coding performance. Excellent tool integration.

Best for: Visual coding

Tool use: 9.2 • Reasoning: 9.3 • Context: 256K

MoE architecture (1T params, 32B active). Competitive pricing.

Best for: Multimodal tasks

Tool use: 9.3 • Reasoning: 9.5 • Context: 1M

Best long-context handling. Strong multimodal.

Best for: Long context

Tool use: 8.8 • Reasoning: 9.1 • Context: 2M

Largest context window (2M tokens). Built-in web & X search.

Best for: Self-hosted

Tool use: 9 • Reasoning: 9.2 • Context: 128K

Open weights from OpenAI. Runs on single 80GB GPU.