Independent. Skin in the game.
BestLLMfor is built and operated by one engineer with a continuous benchmark pipeline tracking 165+ models, not a content farm.
Mohamed Meguedmi
French engineer based in Hauts-de-France. I build independent comparison tools and writing for the open-weights AI ecosystem. Alongside BestLLMfor.com, I maintain a public LLM data API (CC BY 4.0) and an open-source MCP server for the same ecosystem.
Why this site exists
Most "best LLM" content online falls into one of two buckets: SEO pages written without ever running a model, or vendor pages selling their own benchmarks. Neither gives you what you actually need: a model that works on your hardware, fits your budget, and answers your specific use case.
BestLLMfor exists to do that work in the open: index every model worth running, benchmark them with a reproducible methodology, and ship the raw data as a free API anyone can use.
The catalog grows every week as new open-weight models ship and existing ones get re-benchmarked. Everything is versioned and dated, so you can see exactly what changed and when.
How the data is built
| Models indexed | 165+ (and counting) |
| Catalog refresh | Daily · automated pipeline |
| Quantizations tested | Q4_K_M · Q5_K_M · Q8_0 · FP16 |
| Public API | 178 JSON endpoints · CC BY 4.0 |
| MCP server | Open source on GitHub |
| Reproducibility | Model versions · quants · prompts published |
Every benchmark is documented end-to-end: model hash, quantization, runtime config, prompt set, date. See full methodology →
No funding, no affiliate noise
No VC backing. No sponsored rankings. No paid placements. If a model leads a ranking on this site, it's because the benchmark numbers say so. The cost calculator uses public pricing from each vendor and reflects what you'll actually pay — no rebate kickbacks.
Operating costs are low (one engineer, one rig, static hosting). The project will eventually monetize via a separate B2B consulting offer — IAPRO.fr, which sets up sovereign on-prem AI stacks for European SMEs — but BestLLMfor's content remains independent.