/best/businessupdated August 2026149 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 149 models, scored for business
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
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| 01 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.045 | $0.090 | 1.3M |
| 02 | Upstage: Solar Pro 4 | UUpstage | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.120 | 524K |
| 03 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 1M |
| 04 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.048 | $0.193 | 262K |
| 05 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 06 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 07 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M |
| 08 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 09 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 10 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 11 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 12 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.087 | $0.350 | 262K |
| 13 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 203K |
| 14 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.085 | $0.400 | 1M |
| 15 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.269 | $0.400 | 164K |
| 16 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 17 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 18 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 19 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.220 | $0.850 | 262K |
| 20 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.900 | 262K |
| 21 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 22 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 23 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K |
| 24 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M |
| 25 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 262K |
| 26 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 131K |
| 27 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 28 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 29 | Meituan: LongCat 2.0 | MMeituan | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 30 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.25 | 262K |
| 31 | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $0.450 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 32 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 33 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.671 | $1.34 | 1.0M |
| 34 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 35 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.75 | 205K |
| 36 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 37 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 38 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 39 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 40 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 41 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.660 | $1.98 | 1.0M |
| 42 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 43 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 44 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.20 | 262K |
| 45 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 46 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 47 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 48 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.740 | $2.96 | 262K |
| 49 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.660 | $3.40 | 262K |
| 50 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.600 | $3.60 | 262K |
| 51 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 52 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 53 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.19 | $3.74 | 1.0M |
| 54 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K |
| 55 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.05 | 1.0M |
| 56 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 57 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 58 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 59 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 60 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M |
| 61 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262K |
| 62 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 63 | Grok 4.6 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 64 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
| 65 | o3 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 66 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 67 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 68 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 69 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.1M |
| 70 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 71 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.1M |
| 72 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 73 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 74 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M |
| 75 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 76 | Claude Opus 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 77 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 78 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 79 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 80 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 81 | Ling-3.0-flash | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.021 | $0.063 | 262K |
| 82 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.67/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 83 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.037 | $0.170 | 131K |
| 84 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 85 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.67/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.1M |
| 86 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 4.67/5.0 | $0.255 | $1.02 | 205K |
| 87 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 4.67/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.08 | 205K |
| 88 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 89 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 90 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 91 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.550 | $1.65 | 164K |
| 92 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | BByteDance | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.50 | 262K |
| 93 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B | QQwen | 4.67/5.0 | $0.425 | $2.55 | 1M |
| 94 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 64K |
| 95 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 96 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | BBytedance-seed | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 262K |
| 97 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 | ZZhipu AI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1.3M |
| 98 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 99 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 100 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 101 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 102 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 103 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 104 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 105 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 106 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 107 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 108 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 109 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 110 | Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 111 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 131K |
| 112 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 113 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.085 | $0.169 | 1.0M |
| 114 | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.33/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M |
| 115 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 4.33/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 116 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 117 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 118 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 119 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.00 | 164K |
| 120 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 4.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 121 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 122 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.440 | $2.20 | 262K |
| 123 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 4.33/5.0 | $0.550 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 124 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 125 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 4.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 126 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 127 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 128 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 129 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 130 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 256K |
| 131 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 132 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 133 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 134 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 135 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 136 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 137 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.67/5.0 | $0.710 | $0.710 | 131K |
| 138 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 3.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 139 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 3.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 140 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.200 | 131K |
| 141 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 3.33/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.280 | 262K |
| 142 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.110 | $0.340 | 1.3M |
| 143 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.800 | 1.0M |
| 144 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 3.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 145 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.33/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 146 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 147 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 2.67/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
| 148 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor | MMeta | 0.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.200 | 1.0M |
| 149 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | SSakana | 0.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K |
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