Best model for Mindcraft

We only state what sources say. There is no public head-to-head benchmark of Mindcraft gameplay that we could verify yet. We plan to run one.

What we know

Mindcraft supports many providers, including OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq, OpenRouter, Cerebras and local models via Ollama, set via the model field in a profile (e.g. "gemini-2.5-pro"). Mindcraft README
Mindcraft's team publishes its own fine-tuned local models for Ollama (e.g. sweaterdog/andy-4). Mindcraft README
On MC-Bench (AI models build structures from prompts; humans vote blind), Claude 3.7 Sonnet led in March 2025 with an 87.0% win rate. r/ClaudeAI snapshot
As of April 2025: Claude 3.7 Sonnet 84.0%, GPT-4.1 78.6%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 72.9% win rate, from over 150,000 votes. note.com summary
MC-Bench measures building through code, not survival gameplay. TechCrunch

These results are from 2025 and newer models have shipped since. Treat them as historical.