Rankings

Best AI models for reasoning

Ranked by a 0–100 composite of reasoning and knowledge benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam, SimpleQA Verified, SimpleBench), scored as percentile rank against every model released in the past year.

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Reasoning score is a 0–100 percentile composite across that area’s benchmarks. Open a model for the raw scores.

Multimodal200 models

GPT-6 AstraSep 3, 2026 · 21 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$10.00 / $50.0099

Gemini 3.8 FlashSep 2, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7594

Muse Spark 1.3Sep 2, 2026Meta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2592

Claude Fable 5.1Sep 1, 2026 · 9 in the newsAnthropic1M$10.00 / $50.0092

Claude Opus 5Jul 24, 2026 · 18 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0091

GPT-5.6 SolJul 9, 2026 · 24 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$4.40 / $22.0089

Claude Fable 5Jun 9, 2026 · 52 in the newsAnthropic1M$10.00 / $50.0087

Gemini 3.1 ProFeb 19, 2026 · 3 in the newsGoogle DeepMind——87

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAug 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsAlibaba1M$2.00 / $6.0085

GPT-5.5 ProApr 23, 2026 · 2 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$30.00 / $180.0084

Gemini 3.7 FlashAug 13, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7582

GPT-5.3 CodexFeb 5, 2026 · 4 in the newsOpenAI400K$1.75 / $14.0081

GPT-5.5Apr 23, 2026 · 32 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $30.0078

Qwen3.7-MaxMay 19, 2026Alibaba1M$1.48 / $4.4276

Muse Spark 1.1Jul 9, 2026 · 1 in the newsMeta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2574

Muse Spark 1.2Aug 5, 2026 · 1 in the newsMeta AI1M$1.25 / $4.2572

Qwen 3.8 MaxJul 19, 2026 · 17 in the newsAlibaba1M$2.00 / $6.0072

Muse SparkApr 8, 2026 · 3 in the newsMeta AI——72

Claude Opus 4.8May 28, 2026 · 8 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0071

Gemini 3.5 FlashMay 19, 2026 · 4 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$1.50 / $9.0071

Qwen 3.7 MaxMay 19, 2026 · 4 in the newsAlibaba1M$1.48 / $4.4271

GPT-5.4 ProMar 5, 2026OpenAI1.1M$30.00 / $180.0071

DeepSeek V4.1 FlashSep 9, 2026 · 6 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.15 / $0.6067

Grok 4.6Aug 12, 2026 · 2 in the newsxAI500K$2.00 / $6.0067

GPT-5.6 TerraJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.00 / $12.0067

GLM-5.3Aug 14, 2026 · 8 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1.3M$0.95 / $4.4066

Kimi K3Jul 16, 2026 · 43 in the newsMoonshot1M$2.10 / $10.9566

GPT-5.4Mar 5, 2026 · 9 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.0066

Gemini 3.6 FlashJul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.75 / $3.7563

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813Aug 13, 2026 · 1 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.58 / $1.7462

Claude Opus 4.7Apr 16, 2026 · 4 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0062

Claude Opus 4.6Feb 5, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$5.00 / $25.0062

Qwen3.8 27BAug 14, 2026 · 17 in the newsQwen1M$0.42 / $3.0059

Qwen 3.8 27BAug 14, 2026 · 10 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.42 / $3.0059

Claude Sonnet 5Jun 30, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$2.00 / $10.0054

Grok 4.5Jul 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsxAI500K$2.00 / $6.0053

Hy3Jul 6, 2026Tencent262K$0.13 / $0.5353

Nex-N2-ProJun 8, 2026Nex AGI262K$0.25 / $1.0053

Qwen3.7-PlusJun 3, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.32 / $1.2853

DeepSeek-V4-ProApr 24, 2026 · 8 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.87 / $1.7452

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)Apr 20, 2026 · 2 in the newsAlibaba262K$1.04 / $6.2452

Kimi K2.6Apr 20, 2026 · 12 in the newsMoonshot262K$0.57 / $2.4051

GLM-5.3-FlashAug 20, 2026 · 5 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1.3M$0.10 / $0.3549

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Jul 31, 2026 · 3 in the newsDeepSeek1.3M$0.04 / $0.1049

MiMo-V2.5-ProApr 23, 2026Xiaomi Corp1.1M$0.43 / $0.8749

Solar Pro 4Aug 10, 2026Upstage524K$0.03 / $0.1246

GPT-5.6 LunaJul 9, 2026 · 6 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$0.20 / $1.2046

GLM-5.2Jun 16, 2026 · 27 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)1M$0.97 / $3.0446

MiniMax-M3Jun 1, 2026MiniMax1M$0.28 / $1.1046

Motif-3Aug 7, 2026 · 1 in the newsMotif Technologies——44

MiMo-V2-ProMar 18, 2026Xiaomi Corp——44

Qwen 3.6 PlusApr 1, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba1M$0.33 / $1.9543

Kimi K2.7 CodeJun 12, 2026Moonshot262K$0.86 / $3.8042

Claude Sonnet 4.6Feb 17, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic1M$3.00 / $15.0042

GLM-5.1Apr 7, 2026 · 7 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)205K$1.19 / $3.7440

Grok 4.20Feb 17, 2026xAI2M$1.25 / $2.5040

A.X K2Jul 29, 2026 · 1 in the newsSK Telecom——36

Solar Open2 250BJun 28, 2026Upstage——35

Grok 4.3 BetaApr 17, 2026xAI——35

Ling 3.0 Flash VLSep 10, 2026inclusionAI131K$0.06 / $0.1833

Qwen3.6 27BApr 22, 2026 · 3 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.30 / $2.0033

LongCat-2.0Jun 29, 2026 · 2 in the newsMeituan Inc1M$0.30 / $1.2032

Ling-3.0-flashJul 23, 2026 · 1 in the news—262K$0.06 / $0.1831

Inkling-SmallJul 15, 2026 · 2 in the newsThinking Machines1M$0.50 / $1.2031

MiniMax-M2.7Mar 18, 2026 · 1 in the newsMiniMax205K$0.30 / $1.2031

Qwen3.5 397B-A17BFeb 15, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.39 / $2.3430

Ring-2.6-1TMay 14, 2026Ant Group262K$0.07 / $0.6329

DeepSeek-V4-FlashApr 24, 2026 · 11 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.07 / $0.1729

Ling 3.0 Flash FinAug 27, 2026—262K$0.06 / $0.1828

InklingJul 15, 2026 · 4 in the newsThinking Machines1M$0.95 / $4.0528

GPT-5.4 MiniMar 17, 2026OpenAI400K$0.75 / $4.5027

Qwen3.5-27BFeb 24, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.20 / $1.5627

GPT-5.5 InstantMay 5, 2026OpenAI——25

Qwen3.5-35B-A3BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.14 / $1.0025

Nemotron 3 UltraJun 4, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA——24

GLM-5Feb 12, 2026 · 25 in the newsZ.ai (Zhipu AI)205K$0.70 / $2.2423

Kimi K2.5Feb 2, 2026 · 16 in the newsMoonshot262K$0.60 / $3.0023

K-EXAONE 2.0Jul 31, 2026LG AI Research——20

Step 3.7 FlashMay 29, 2026StepFun262K$0.20 / $1.1520

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3BApr 14, 2026 · 4 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.10 / $0.9020

Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)Feb 16, 2026Alibaba——20

Qwen3.5-122B-A10BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.26 / $2.0819

Qwen3.7 FlashJul 27, 2026Alibaba1M$0.03 / $0.1318

Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteMar 3, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle1M$0.25 / $1.5018

Qwen3.5-Omni-PlusMar 29, 2026Alibaba——17

Gemma 4 31B ITApr 2, 2026Google DeepMind262K$0.12 / $0.3515

GPT-5.4 NanoMar 17, 2026OpenAI400K$0.20 / $1.2515

MiniMax-M2.5Feb 12, 2026MiniMax205K$0.27 / $0.9515

Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteJul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsGoogle DeepMind1M$0.30 / $2.5014

Qwen3.5-9BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba262K$0.10 / $0.1514

Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)Feb 25, 2026Alibaba——13

Mistral Medium 3.5Apr 28, 2026 · 3 in the newsMistral AI262K$1.50 / $7.5012

Trinity Large ThinkingApr 1, 2026Arcee AI262K$0.25 / $0.8011

Command A+May 20, 2026 · 6 in the newsCohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI)256K$2.50 / $10.0010

Nemotron 3 SuperMar 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA——10

Qwen 3.6 FlashApr 27, 2026Alibaba1M$0.19 / $1.139

Gemma 4 26B A4BApr 2, 2026Google DeepMind——9

Qwen3.5-4BFeb 24, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba——9

Nemotron 3.5 LightningAug 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsNVIDIA262K$0.07 / $0.208

Mistral Small 4Mar 16, 2026 · 1 in the newsMistral AI——8

Qwen3.5-Omni-FlashMar 29, 2026Alibaba——4

Qwen3-Coder-NextFeb 2, 2026 · 1 in the newsAlibaba262K$0.12 / $0.804

Granite 4.2 8BAug 31, 2026IBM131K$0.06 / $0.253

Granite 4.1 30BApr 29, 2026IBM——1

Qwen3.5-2BFeb 24, 2026Alibaba——0

Union AlphaSep 16, 2026—262K——

Schematron V2 TurboSep 12, 2026Inference.net128K$0.03 / $0.15—

Schematron V2 SmallSep 12, 2026Inference.net128K$0.05 / $0.23—

Fugu Ultra v2Sep 11, 2026 · 2 in the newsSakana1M$5.00 / $30.00—

Fugu MaxSep 11, 2026 · 2 in the newsSakana1M$2.00 / $6.00—

GPT-Image-2.5 FlareSep 8, 2026OpenAI———

ChatGPT Images 2.5Sep 8, 2026 · 2 in the newsOpenAI———

GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstSep 8, 2026OpenAI———

Mercury 2.5Sep 8, 2026Inception260K$0.04 / $0.15—

GPT-6 Astra ProSep 4, 2026 · 1 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$10.00 / $50.00—

GPT-6 Astra (batch)Sep 4, 2026OpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $25.00—

GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch)Sep 4, 2026OpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Sep 3, 2026 · 1 in the newsQwen1M$2.00 / $6.00—

OpenEvidence DarwinSep 3, 2026OpenEvidence———

WeatherNext 3Sep 3, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle DeepMind,Google Research———

Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Sep 2, 2026Google1M$0.38 / $1.88—

Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorSep 2, 2026Meta1M$0.10 / $0.20—

Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)Sep 1, 2026Anthropic1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Mercury 2.5 PreviewAug 31, 2026Inception260K$0.04 / $0.15—

Hy4 previewAug 28, 2026Tencent1M$0.83 / $2.50—

Qwen3.8 FlashAug 26, 2026 · 3 in the newsQwen1M$0.15 / $0.47—

GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)Aug 26, 2026Z.ai1M$0.07 / $0.25—

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpAug 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsDeepSeek1M$0.22 / $0.66—

Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorAug 21, 2026Meta1M$0.10 / $0.20—

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)Aug 21, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.11 / $0.33—

Hy-MT2-1.8BAug 20, 2026Tencent8K$0.04 / $0.18—

Hy-MT2-30B-A3BAug 20, 2026Tencent8K$0.07 / $0.29—

Ox AlphaAug 20, 2026 · 3 in the news—1M——

Hy-MT2-7BAug 19, 2026Tencent8K$0.07 / $0.29—

GEN-1.5Aug 19, 2026 · 2 in the newsGeneralist———

GLM 5.3 (batch)Aug 18, 2026Z.ai1M$0.70 / $2.20—

Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)Aug 13, 2026Google1M$0.19 / $0.94—

Seed 2.1 TurboAug 12, 2026ByteDance Seed262K$0.50 / $2.50—

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (batch)Aug 12, 2026Qwen1M$2.00 / $6.00—

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)Aug 12, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.66 / $1.98—

NamazuAug 11, 2026 · 3 in the newsSakana262K$0.95 / $4.00—

GPT-5.6 CyberAug 11, 2026OpenAI———

Sakana NamazuAug 11, 2026 · 1 in the newsSakana262K$0.95 / $4.00—

Muse Glimmer 30BAug 9, 2026Meta131K$0.30 / $1.10—

Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)Aug 9, 2026Meta131K$0.17 / $0.75—

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)Jul 31, 2026DeepSeek1M$0.11 / $0.33—

Inkling Small (batch)Jul 30, 2026Thinking Machines524K$0.50 / $1.20—

Seed-2.0-CodeJul 30, 2026ByteDance Seed262K$0.50 / $3.00—

Claude Opus 5 (batch)Jul 24, 2026—1M$2.50 / $12.50—

Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Jul 21, 2026Google1M$0.38 / $1.88—

Laguna S 2.1Jul 21, 2026 · 1 in the newsPoolside1M$0.10 / $0.20—

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Jul 21, 2026Google1M$0.15 / $1.25—

Inkling (batch)Jul 17, 2026Thinking Machines524K$1.00 / $4.05—

Kimi K3 (batch)Jul 16, 2026MoonshotAI1M$3.00 / $15.00—

KAT-Coder-Air V2.5Jul 10, 2026Kwaipilot256K$0.15 / $0.60—

KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5Jul 10, 2026Kwaipilot262K$0.74 / $2.96—

GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$1.00 / $6.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.10 / $0.60—

GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$1.00 / $6.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.10 / $0.60—

GPT-5.6 Terra ProJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.00 / $12.00—

GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.00—

GPT-5.6 Luna ProJul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$0.20 / $1.20—

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)Jul 9, 2026OpenAI1.1M$2.50 / $15.00—

GPT-5.6 Sol ProJul 9, 2026 · 1 in the newsOpenAI1.1M$5.00 / $30.00—

SWE-1.7Jul 8, 2026Cognition———

Aion-3.0-MiniJul 7, 2026AionLabs131K$0.70 / $1.40—

Aion-3.0Jul 7, 2026AionLabs131K$3.00 / $6.00—

Tencent Hy3Jul 6, 2026Tencent———

Laguna XS 2.1Jul 2, 2026Poolside262K$0.06 / $0.12—

Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Jun 30, 2026Anthropic1M$1.00 / $5.00—

Fugu UltraJun 24, 2026 · 4 in the newsSakana1M$5.00 / $30.00—

Nex-N2-MiniJun 24, 2026Nex AGI262K$0.03 / $0.10—

GLM 5.2 (batch)Jun 16, 2026Z.ai1M$0.70 / $2.20—

Kimi K2.7 Code (batch)Jun 12, 2026MoonshotAI262K$0.95 / $4.00—

Claude Fable 5 (batch)Jun 9, 2026Anthropic1M$5.00 / $25.00—

Claude Mythos 5Jun 9, 2026 · 7 in the newsAnthropic———

MAI-Code-1-FlashJun 2, 2026Microsoft———

MAI-Image-2.5Jun 2, 2026Microsoft———

MiniMax M3 (batch)May 31, 2026MiniMax524K$0.30 / $1.20—

Grok Build 0.1May 29, 2026xAI256K$1.00 / $2.00—

Composer 2.5May 18, 2026Cursor———

Perceptron Mk1May 12, 2026Perceptron33K$0.15 / $1.50—

TML-Interaction-SmallMay 11, 2026Thinking Machines———

GPT-5.5 CyberMay 7, 2026OpenAI———

Laguna XS.2Apr 28, 2026Poolside———

Laguna M.1Apr 28, 2026Poolside———

Tencent Hy3 previewApr 23, 2026Tencent———

GPT Image 2Apr 21, 2026 · 3 in the newsOpenAI———

Gemini Flash 3.1 TTSApr 15, 2026Google DeepMind———

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6Apr 14, 2026 · 2 in the newsGoogle———

GPT-5.4-CyberApr 14, 2026OpenAI———

EXAONE 4.5Apr 9, 2026LG AI Research———

Claude Mythos PreviewApr 7, 2026 · 3 in the newsAnthropic———

MolmoAct 2Apr 5, 2026Allen Institute for AI,University of Washington,National University of Singapore,University of Pennsylvania,Johns Hopkins University,Amazon,Cortex AI———

Composer 2Mar 19, 2026Cursor———

Gemini 3.0 Flash-liteMar 3, 2026Google DeepMind———

SWE 1.6Mar 1, 2026Cognition———

Seedance 2.0Feb 12, 2026 · 5 in the newsByteDance———

GPT-5.3-Codex-SparkFeb 12, 2026OpenAI———

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI model for reasoning?

GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) currently ranks first for reasoning on Model Beat, followed by Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3. Ranked by a 0–100 composite of reasoning and knowledge benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam, SimpleQA Verified, SimpleBench), scored as percentile rank against every model released in the past year.

Which is the most affordable strong reasoning model?

Among the top-ranked reasoning models, Gemini 3.8 Flash is the cheapest at $0.75 per million input tokens.

How are these reasoning rankings calculated?

Benchmarks & model data from Epoch AI (CC BY); pricing & specs from OpenRouter. ECI = Epoch Capabilities Index.