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 86 models, scored for business
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.071 | $0.100 | 262K |
| 02 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 03 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| 04 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 05 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 06 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.330 | 262K |
| 07 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.120 | $0.370 | 262K |
| 08 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 203K |
| 09 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.252 | $0.378 | 131K |
| 10 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.450 | 1M |
| 11 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 12 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| 13 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.139 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 14 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 16 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 17 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.75 | 203K |
| 18 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 19 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 20 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 21 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Omni | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 22 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 23 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 24 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 25 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 26 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.290 | $3.20 | 262K |
| 27 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.730 | $3.49 | 262K |
| 28 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $3.75 | 1M |
| 29 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 30 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 31 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.04 | $6.24 | 262K |
| 32 | o3 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 33 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 34 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 35 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 36 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 37 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 38 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 39 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.039 | $0.180 | 131K |
| 40 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.210 | $0.790 | 164K |
| 41 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.67/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| 42 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 43 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 44 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 45 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 164K |
| 46 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 47 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 48 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 49 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 50 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 51 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 52 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 53 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 54 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 55 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 56 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 57 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 58 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.140 | 131K |
| 59 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.33/5.0 | $0.040 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 60 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.200 | 1.0M |
| 61 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 62 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 63 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.270 | $0.950 | 164K |
| 64 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 65 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 66 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 67 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 68 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 69 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 70 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 71 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 72 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 73 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 74 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 75 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.320 | 131K |
| 76 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 77 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 3.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 78 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 3.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 79 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.200 | 128K |
| 80 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 3.33/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.270 | 160K |
| 81 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.300 | 10M |
| 82 | Devstral Small 1.1 | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 131K |
| 83 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 3.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 1.0M |
| 84 | Devstral Medium | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 85 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.33/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 86 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
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