Models: AI Model & Provider Browser

TUI and CLI for browsing AI models, benchmarks, coding agents, and provider statuses.

Highlights

• ~4,000+ models across 85+ providers from models.dev — filter by capability, price, context, and provider category
• ~1,000 benchmark entries across 4 data sources — Artificial Analysis, Epoch AI, Arena, and LLM Stats — compare models head-to-head with scatter plots and radar charts
• 12+ coding agents tracked with version detection, changelogs, and GitHub integration
• 22 provider statuses monitored live across 7 status page platforms

What's New in v0.14.0

• Richer model details — the Models tab detail panel now surfaces the model's description, a Structured Output capability (Yes/No/—), and reasoning controls (budget range, effort levels, toggle) alongside the existing capabilities.
• Deeper pricing — thinking-token, audio in/out, and tiered ("over N tokens") prices show as conditional rows when a model carries them.
• Field glossary — press i in the Models tab for a scrollable breakdown of what each detail field means (mirrors the Benchmarks glossary).
• CLI parity — models show and --json include the new description, structured-output, reasoning-controls, and pricing fields.

What's New in v0.13.0

• Add agents in-app — press A to add a custom coding agent by name + owner/repo; it's tracked and fetched immediately, no config editing.
• In-app self-updates — update a tracked agent (u), all agents with updates available (U), or cancel an in-flight update (x), all from the Agents tab. The update command is derived from how each agent was actually installed (bun/npm/brew/cargo/AUR/apt/dnf, etc.), with an interactive suspend-and-run mode (i) for updaters that need a prompt or sudo.

What's New in v0.12.1

• Mouse support — click a row to select it, click a panel to focus it, click a header tab to switch tabs, and scroll with the wheel. Popups (sort, columns, glossary, trackers, help) scroll and accept row clicks too.

What's New in v0.12.0

• Multi-source benchmarks — 4 switchable data sources (Artificial Analysis, Epoch AI, Arena, LLM Stats) with state-preserving switching, in-app refresh, and a benchmark glossary
• Column picker — choose which metric columns are visible, persisted per source in config.toml
• Comparator column — cycle field average / peer average / rank alongside every score in the detail panel
• Refresh keys everywhere — refresh benchmarks, models.dev data, and agent GitHub data without restarting
• default_tab config — launch the TUI straight into your tab of choice
• Prebuilt Nix binaries — builds are pushed to a public Cachix cache; nix run downloads instead of compiling

Install

Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew install models

Cargo (any platform)

cargo install modelsdev

Nix (flake)

nix run github:reyamira/models
nix profile install github:reyamira/models

The flake is available directly from GitHub tags and branches; it is not currently published to FlakeHub or nixpkgs.

Scoop (Windows)

scoop install extras/models

AUR (Arch Linux)

paru -S models-bin

Pre-built binaries, .deb, and .rpm packages are available on GitHub Releases. See the Installation wiki page for all methods, shell completions, and command aliases.

Quick Start

models

Navigate with arrow keys, switch tabs with [/], search with /, and press ? for context-aware help. Mouse works too — click a row to select it, click a panel to focus it, and scroll with the wheel. See Getting Started for a full walkthrough.

Features

Models — browse and compare AI models

Three-column layout with providers, model list, and rich detail panel. RTFO capability indicators, 6 filter keys, sort by name/date/cost/context, cross-provider search, and copy-to-clipboard.

Models wiki page • CLI: models list, models show, models search, models providers

Agents — track AI coding assistants

Curated catalog of 12+ agents with automatic version detection, GitHub release tracking, styled changelogs with search and match navigation, and live service health from provider status pages. Add your own agents without leaving the TUI (A), and update installed ones in-app (u one / U all) — the update command is derived from how each tool was actually installed (npm, bun, Homebrew, uv, pipx, or a system package manager like pacman/AUR, apt, dnf).

Agents wiki page • CLI: agents status, agents <tool>, agents latest, agents list-sources

Benchmarks — compare model performance

~1,000 entries across 4 switchable data sources (Artificial Analysis, Epoch AI, Arena, LLM Stats) with quality indexes, Elo ratings, speed, and pricing. Compare mode with head-to-head tables, scatter plots, and radar charts. Choose visible metric columns, cycle a field-average/peer-average/rank comparator in the detail panel, and refresh any source in-app. Filter by creator, region, type, reasoning, and open/closed source.

Benchmarks wiki page • CLI: models benchmarks list, models benchmarks show

Status — monitor provider health

Live health monitoring for 22 AI providers across 7 status page platforms. Overall dashboard with health gauge, incident and maintenance cards. Provider detail with grouped services, incidents, and scheduled maintenance.

Status wiki page • CLI: models status list, models status show, models status status

Documentation

Full documentation lives in the wiki:

Data Sources

• Models: models.dev by SST
• Benchmarks: Artificial Analysis, Epoch AI (CC-BY), Arena, LLM Stats
• Agents: Curated catalog in data/agents.json — contributions welcome!
• Status: Official provider status pages (Statuspage, BetterStack, Instatus, incident.io, and more)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the Contributing Guide before submitting a PR.

This project follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

License

MIT