/best/businessupdated October 2026164 models evaluated
Best AI for business
Email drafting, report generation, data summarization, and workflow automation.
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 164 models, scored for business
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
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| 01 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.021 | $0.062 | 262K |
| 02 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 1M |
| 03 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 04 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.240 | 262K |
| 05 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M |
| 06 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 07 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 08 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 09 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 10 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 11 | Upstage: Solar Pro 4 | UUpstage | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.360 | 524K |
| 12 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 200K |
| 13 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.450 | 262K |
| 14 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.550 | 262K |
| 16 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.016 | $0.640 | 1.0M |
| 17 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 18 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.750 | 262K |
| 19 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 20 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.800 | 262K |
| 21 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.259 | $0.800 | 164K |
| 22 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.026 | $0.900 | 1.0M |
| 23 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.950 | 262K |
| 24 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 25 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 26 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K |
| 27 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M |
| 28 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 262K |
| 29 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 30 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 31 | Meituan: LongCat 2.0 | MMeituan | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 32 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 131K |
| 33 | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $0.450 | $1.20 | 524K |
| 34 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 35 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 36 | AionLabs: Aion-2.0 | AAion-labs | 5.00/5.0 | $0.800 | $1.60 | 131K |
| 37 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 38 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 39 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 40 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 41 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 42 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.955 | $1.91 | 1.0M |
| 43 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 44 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 45 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.600 | $2.20 | 205K |
| 46 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.600 | $2.40 | 262K |
| 47 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 48 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 49 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 50 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.740 | $2.96 | 262K |
| 51 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.320 | $3.20 | 262K |
| 52 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.671 | $3.35 | 262K |
| 53 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.650 | $3.41 | 262K |
| 54 | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 55 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 56 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 57 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $4.05 | 524K |
| 58 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1.0M |
| 59 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 60 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 61 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 62 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 63 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 64 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M |
| 65 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262K |
| 66 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 67 | Grok 4.6 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 68 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
| 69 | AionLabs: Aion-3.0 | AAion-labs | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $6.00 | 131K |
| 70 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $7.00 | 1.0M |
| 71 | o3 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 72 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 73 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 74 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 75 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.1M |
| 76 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 77 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.1M |
| 78 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.730 | $13.50 | 1.0M |
| 79 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 80 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 81 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 82 | Claude Opus 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 83 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 84 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 85 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 86 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 87 | Ling-3.0-flash | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.021 | $0.063 | 262K |
| 88 | Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Mini | NNex-agi | 4.67/5.0 | $0.025 | $0.100 | 262K |
| 89 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.67/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 90 | Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview | IInception | 4.67/5.0 | $0.040 | $0.150 | 260K |
| 91 | Inception: Mercury 2.5 | IInception | 4.67/5.0 | $0.040 | $0.150 | 260K |
| 92 | IBM: Granite 4.2 8B | IIbm-granite | 4.67/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.250 | 131K |
| 93 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash | QQwen | 4.67/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.470 | 1M |
| 94 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 131K |
| 95 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 96 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.67/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.1M |
| 97 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.950 | 164K |
| 98 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 4.67/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.08 | 205K |
| 99 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 4.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 100 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 101 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 102 | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini | AAion-labs | 4.67/5.0 | $0.700 | $1.40 | 131K |
| 103 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 104 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B | QQwen | 4.67/5.0 | $0.040 | $2.30 | 1M |
| 105 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | BByteDance | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.50 | 262K |
| 106 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 64K |
| 107 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 108 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | BBytedance-seed | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 262K |
| 109 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 | ZZhipu AI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.079 | $4.80 | 1.0M |
| 110 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 111 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 112 | Sakana: Fugu Max | SSakana | 4.67/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
| 113 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 114 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 115 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 116 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 117 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 118 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 119 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 120 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 121 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 122 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 123 | Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 124 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 125 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.018 | $0.090 | 131K |
| 126 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 127 | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.33/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M |
| 128 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 4.33/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 129 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 130 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 131 | Upstage: Solar Pro 3 | UUpstage | 4.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 131K |
| 132 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 133 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.00 | 164K |
| 134 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.042 | $1.28 | 1.0M |
| 135 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 4.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 136 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 137 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 138 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 4.33/5.0 | $0.550 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 139 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 140 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 4.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 141 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 142 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 143 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 144 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 145 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 256K |
| 146 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 147 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 148 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 149 | Relace: Relace Search | RRelace | 4.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $3.00 | 256K |
| 150 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 151 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 152 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 153 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.67/5.0 | $0.590 | $0.790 | 131K |
| 154 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 3.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 155 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 3.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 156 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.094 | $0.250 | 256K |
| 157 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 3.33/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.280 | 262K |
| 158 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.180 | $0.590 | 1.3M |
| 159 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.188 | $0.652 | 1.0M |
| 160 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 3.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 161 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.33/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 162 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 163 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 2.67/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
| 164 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | SSakana | 0.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K |
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