I built a live ranking of every AI agent and foundation model (open source)

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence 05/19/26, 09:58 PM Tools

ai-agents foundation-models leaderboard open-source benchmark comparison

Summary

A developer launched AgentTape, a live ranking site that aggregates data from multiple sources (GitHub, Hugging Face, OpenRouter, etc.) to score and compare public AI agents and foundation models, aiming to provide a more holistic evaluation beyond benchmarks.

I built [AgentTape](https://agenttape.com/) because none of the existing model leaderboards quite cover all the things that I was interested in: benchmark performance is one part, but so is who's actually using a model, who's talking about it, and how it compared on cost and speed. It pulls hourly data from GitHub, Hugging Face, OpenRouter, MCP registries, npm, PyPI, arXiv, Hacker News, and more - to score and compare each public AI agent and foundation model. I'm still tweaking the scoring methodology, so I'd love to hear your thoughts, if it's helpful, or anything you think I've got wrong!

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