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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 81.8/100. Drawn from Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference votes.

Rival’s pick·#13 Rival Index·Anthropic flagship

Too close to call
Claude Fable 5AnthropicNeck and neck with Inkling. Claude Fable 5 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
  • 4Qwen3.8 27BQwen
    5/5
    #24$0.40·$3.00Input $0.40 · output $3.00, per 1M tokens76
  • 5Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle AI
    5/5
    $0.75·$3.75Input $0.75 · output $3.75, per 1M tokens74
  • 6GPT-4.1OpenAI
    5/5
    #78$2.00·$8.00Input $2.00 · output $8.00, per 1M tokens73
  • 7GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI
    5/5
    $0.10·$0.50Input $0.10 · output $0.50, per 1M tokens73
  • 8Kimi K3Moonshot AI
    5/5
    #52$3.00·$15.00Input $3.00 · output $15.00, per 1M tokens73
  • 9Sonoma Dusk AlphaOpenRouter
    5/5
    #45$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens73
  • 10GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
    5/5
    #158$5.00·$30.00Input $5.00 · output $30.00, per 1M tokens72
  • 11Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)Qwen
    5/5
    #28$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens71
  • 12Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle AI
    5/5
    #29$0.13·$0.40Input $0.13 · output $0.40, per 1M tokens71
  • 13Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
    5/5
    $2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens71
  • 14DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
    5/5
    $0.15·$0.60Input $0.15 · output $0.60, per 1M tokens70
  • 15GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
    5/5
    #214$2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens69
  • 16Horizon BetaOpenRouter
    5/5
    #48$0.000·$0.000Input $0.000 · output $0.000, per 1M tokens69
  • 17MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi
    5/5
    #61$1.00·$3.00Input $1.00 · output $3.00, per 1M tokens68
  • 18Qwen3.6 27BQwen
    4/5
    #1$0.33·$3.25Input $0.33 · output $3.25, per 1M tokens68
  • 19GLM 5.3 PrimeZ.ai
    3/5
    $2.80·$8.80Input $2.80 · output $8.80, per 1M tokens68
  • 20Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google AI
    4/5
    #39$1.25·$10.00Input $1.25 · output $10.00, 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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