/best/businessupdated May 202686 models evaluated

Best AI for business

Email drafting, report generation, data summarization, and workflow automation.

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Business use cases span everything from drafting customer emails to summarizing quarterly reports to automating data entry. The common thread: the model needs to follow instructions precisely, produce professional-quality output, and handle structured data reliably. A model that's creative but inconsistent is worse than one that's predictable but plain.

What matters: instruction-following (the model must respect format, tone, and length constraints), structured output (for integration with business tools), and faithfulness (when summarizing data, accuracy trumps everything). Cost matters at enterprise scale — a model processing thousands of documents per day needs to be economical.

Our business rank weights instruction-following (2×), structured output (1.5×), and faithfulness (1.5×). For customer-facing communication, add writing quality weight. For internal analytics, add data-analysis and reasoning weight.

Full rankings

All 86 models, scored for business

weighted composite · lower-is-worse
#ModelProviderTask score$/in$/outContext
01Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QQwen5.00/5.0$0.071$0.100262K
02NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNNVIDIA5.00/5.0$0.050$0.200262K
03MiMo-V2.5XXiaomi5.00/5.0$0.140$0.2801.0M
04Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QQwen5.00/5.0$0.090$0.300262K
05Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXXiaomi5.00/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
06Gemma 4 26B A4B GGoogle5.00/5.0$0.060$0.330262K
07Gemma 4 31BGGoogle5.00/5.0$0.120$0.370262K
08GLM-4.7 FlashZZhipu AI5.00/5.0$0.060$0.400203K
09DeepSeek V3.2DDeepSeek5.00/5.0$0.252$0.378131K
10NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNNVIDIA5.00/5.0$0.090$0.4501M
11Grok 4.1 FastXXAI5.00/5.0$0.200$0.5002M
12DeepSeek V4 ProDDeepSeek5.00/5.0$0.435$0.8701.0M
13Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQQwen5.00/5.0$0.139$1.00262K
14Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BQQwen5.00/5.0$0.140$1.00262K
15Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQQwen5.00/5.0$0.188$1.131M
16Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGGoogle5.00/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
17GLM-4.7ZZhipu AI5.00/5.0$0.400$1.75203K
18Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20QQwen5.00/5.0$0.300$1.801M
19Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQQwen5.00/5.0$0.325$1.951M
20GPT-5 MiniOOpenAI5.00/5.0$0.250$2.00400K
21Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-OmniXXiaomi5.00/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
22R1 0528DDeepSeek5.00/5.0$0.500$2.15164K
23xAI: Grok Build 0.1XXAI5.00/5.0$1.00$2.00256K
24Grok 4.20XXAI5.00/5.0$1.25$2.502M
25Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGGoogle5.00/5.0$0.500$3.001.0M
26Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BQQwen5.00/5.0$0.290$3.20262K
27MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6MMoonshotAI5.00/5.0$0.730$3.49262K
28Qwen 3.7 MaxQQwen5.00/5.0$1.25$3.751M
29GPT-5.4 MiniOOpenAI5.00/5.0$0.750$4.50400K
30o4 MiniOOpenAI5.00/5.0$1.10$4.40200K
31Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQQwen5.00/5.0$1.04$6.24262K
32o3OOpenAI5.00/5.0$2.00$8.00200K
33Gemini 3.5 FlashGGoogle5.00/5.0$1.50$9.001.0M
34GPT-5OOpenAI5.00/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
35Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGGoogle5.00/5.0$2.00$12.001.0M
36GPT-5.4OOpenAI5.00/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
37Grok 3XXAI5.00/5.0$3.00$15.00131K
38Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8AAnthropic5.00/5.0$5.00$25.001M
39OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOOpenAI4.67/5.0$0.039$0.180131K
40DeepSeek V3.1DDeepSeek4.67/5.0$0.210$0.790164K
41MiMo-V2.5-ProXXiaomi4.67/5.0$0.435$0.8701.0M
42GPT-5.4 NanoOOpenAI4.67/5.0$0.200$1.25400K
43Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGGoogle4.67/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
44Mistral Large 3 2512MMistral4.67/5.0$0.500$1.50262K
45R1DDeepSeek4.67/5.0$0.700$2.50164K
46Grok 4.3XXAI4.67/5.0$1.25$2.501M
47Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-ProXXiaomi4.67/5.0$1.00$3.001.0M
48Claude Haiku 4.5AAnthropic4.67/5.0$1.00$5.00200K
49Mistral Medium 3.5MMistral4.67/5.0$1.50$7.50262K
50GPT-4.1OOpenAI4.67/5.0$2.00$8.001.0M
51Gemini 2.5 ProGGoogle4.67/5.0$1.25$10.001.0M
52GPT-5.1OOpenAI4.67/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
53GPT-5.2OOpenAI4.67/5.0$1.75$14.00400K
54Claude Sonnet 4.6AAnthropic4.67/5.0$3.00$15.001M
55Grok 4XXAI4.67/5.0$3.00$15.00256K
56Claude Opus 4.7AAnthropic4.67/5.0$5.00$25.001M
57Claude Opus 4.6AAnthropic4.67/5.0$5.00$25.001M
58OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bOOpenAI4.33/5.0$0.030$0.140131K
59Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BQQwen4.33/5.0$0.040$0.150262K
60DeepSeek V4 FlashDDeepSeek4.33/5.0$0.100$0.2001.0M
61GPT-5 NanoOOpenAI4.33/5.0$0.050$0.400400K
62Mistral Small 4MMistral4.33/5.0$0.150$0.600262K
63DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDDeepSeek4.33/5.0$0.270$0.950164K
64Devstral 2 2512MMistral4.33/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
65Mistral Medium 3.1MMistral4.33/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
66GPT-5.5OOpenAI4.33/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
67Ministral 3 14B 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.200$0.200262K
68Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGGoogle4.00/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
69GPT-4.1 NanoOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
70Grok 3 MiniXXAI4.00/5.0$0.300$0.500131K
71Codestral 2508MMistral4.00/5.0$0.300$0.900256K
72GPT-4.1 MiniOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.400$1.601.0M
73Ministral 3 3B 2512MMistral3.67/5.0$0.100$0.100131K
74Ministral 3 8B 2512MMistral3.67/5.0$0.150$0.150262K
75Llama 3.3 70B InstructMMeta3.67/5.0$0.100$0.320131K
76Mistral Small 3.1 24BMMistral3.67/5.0$0.351$0.555128K
77Grok Code Fast 1XXAI3.67/5.0$0.200$1.50256K
78Gemini 2.5 FlashGGoogle3.67/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
79Mistral Small 3.2 24BMMistral3.33/5.0$0.075$0.200128K
80Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQQwen3.33/5.0$0.070$0.270160K
81Llama 4 ScoutMMeta3.33/5.0$0.080$0.30010M
82Devstral Small 1.1MMistral3.33/5.0$0.100$0.300131K
83Llama 4 MaverickMMeta3.33/5.0$0.150$0.6001.0M
84Devstral MediumMMistral3.33/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
85GPT-4oOOpenAI3.33/5.0$2.50$10.00128K
86GPT-4o-miniOOpenAI3.00/5.0$0.150$0.600128K

Pricing — top 5 for business

QQwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
$0.093/MTok
5.00/5.0
NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
$0.163/MTok
5.00/5.0
XMiMo-V2.5
$0.245/MTok
5.00/5.0
QQwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
$0.247/MTok
5.00/5.0
XXiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash
$0.250/MTok
5.00/5.0
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