I got tired of juggling OpenRouter + Artificial Analysis + Design Arena tabs to pick a model, so I put them in one filterable table
Summary
A developer built ModelGrep, a free tool that aggregates AI model data from OpenRouter, Artificial Analysis, and Design Arena into a searchable table, enabling filtering by price, benchmarks, throughput, and more.
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