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Best AI for Website Design

Dashboards with a working theme toggle, landing pages for products that do not exist, a business card that animates. All single-file.

Updated Jun 2026·5 challenges·20 models

How Website Design rankings are computed

20 models tested across 5 website design challenges.Composite score: 30% Rival Index, 20% task coverage, 20% challenge-scoped duel performance, 15% recency, 15% tier. Deduplicated by product line. Inkling leads at 82.4/100. Drawn from Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference votes.

Rival’s pick·#12 Rival Index

Too close to call
InklingThinking MachinesNeck and neck with Claude Fable 5. Inkling gets the nod on blind votes.

Composite scores combine task evidence, Rival Index, recency, and model tier. Rival’s pick is a separate editorial recommendation. How ranking works

  1. Claude Fable 5Anthropic$10.00·$50.00Input $10.00 · output $50.00, per 1M tokens
    #280Composite
  2. InklingThinking Machines$1.00·$4.05Input $1.00 · output $4.05, per 1M tokens
    #182Composite
  3. Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle AI$2.00·$12.00Input $2.00 · output $12.00, per 1M tokens
    #379Composite

Head-to-head

  • InklingvsClaude Fable 5
  • InklingvsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview
  • Claude Fable 5vsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Full rankings

20 models
#ModelCoverageIndex
  • 4GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
    5/5
    $2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens78
  • 5Qwen3.8 27BQwen
    5/5
    #23$0.40·$3.00Input $0.40 · output $3.00, per 1M tokens77
  • 6Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle AI
    5/5
    $0.75·$3.75Input $0.75 · output $3.75, per 1M tokens75
  • 7GPT-4.1OpenAI
    5/5
    #77$2.00·$8.00Input $2.00 · output $8.00, per 1M tokens73
  • 8GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
    5/5
    #155$5.00·$30.00Input $5.00 · output $30.00, per 1M tokens73
  • 9Kimi K3Moonshot AI
    5/5
    #46$3.00·$15.00Input $3.00 · output $15.00, per 1M tokens73
  • 10Sonoma Dusk AlphaOpenRouter
    5/5
    #44$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens73
  • 11Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)Qwen
    5/5
    #27$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens72
  • 12Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle AI
    5/5
    #28$0.13·$0.40Input $0.13 · output $0.40, per 1M tokens72
  • 13Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
    5/5
    #48$1.00·$5.00Input $1.00 · output $5.00, per 1M tokens72
  • 14Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
    5/5
    $2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens71
  • 15DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
    5/5
    $0.15·$0.60Input $0.15 · output $0.60, per 1M tokens70
  • 16MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi
    5/5
    #60$1.00·$3.00Input $1.00 · output $3.00, per 1M tokens69
  • 17Qwen3.6 27BQwen
    4/5
    #1$0.33·$3.25Input $0.33 · output $3.25, per 1M tokens69
  • 18GLM 5.3 PrimeZ.ai
    3/5
    $2.80·$8.80Input $2.80 · output $8.80, per 1M tokens69
  • 19Horizon BetaOpenRouter
    5/5
    #49$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens69
  • 20Qwen3.7 MaxQwen
    5/5
    #29$2.50·$7.50Input $2.50 · output $7.50, per 1M tokens68

Challenges5

  • Dark Mode DashboardA dashboard someone would leave open all day. No ceiling on polish.
  • Minimalist Landing PageRestraint on purpose. Most models cannot stop adding sections.
  • Music App Landing PageA landing page for a music app. Hero, proof, one button.
  • Random Tailwind WebappNo brief. The model picks the app, then has to make it work.
  • Animated Business CardA business card that moves. Micro-interactions or nothing.

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  • Frontend Development
  • UI Replication
  • Branding

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