/best/data-analysisupdated May 202685 models evaluated

Best AI for data analysis

Querying, transforming, and interpreting structured data.

CodingMathWritingResearchTranslationData AnalysisChatbotsStudentsBusinessCreative WritingTabular Data & Spreadsheets

Data analysis sits at the intersection of coding, structured reasoning, and communication. The model needs to write correct SQL or Python, handle messy schema, and explain findings without oversimplifying. A model that writes beautiful code but interprets results incorrectly is dangerous.

What matters: structured output fidelity (the model must produce valid, executable code), math reasoning (to interpret statistical results correctly), and instruction-following (to respect schema constraints and output formats). Tool-use capability matters for agentic data pipelines. For raw table comprehension, see our dedicated tabular data benchmark.

Our data-analysis rank weights structured output (2×), math (1.5×), reasoning (1×), and tool-use (0.5×). For interactive analysis notebooks, speed is also a factor — nobody wants to wait 30 seconds for a pivot table.

Full rankings

All 85 models, scored for data analysis

weighted composite · lower-is-worse
#ModelProviderTask score$/in$/outContext
01NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNNVIDIA4.75/5.0$0.090$0.4501M
02DeepSeek V4 ProDDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.435$0.8701.0M
03Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQQwen4.75/5.0$0.139$1.00262K
04GLM-4.7ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.400$1.75203K
05Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20QQwen4.75/5.0$0.300$1.801M
06Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQQwen4.75/5.0$0.325$1.951M
07GPT-5 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00400K
08Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-OmniXXiaomi4.75/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
09xAI: Grok Build 0.1XXAI4.75/5.0$1.00$2.00256K
10o4 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.10$4.40200K
11Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQQwen4.75/5.0$1.04$6.24262K
12Qwen 3.7 MaxQQwen4.75/5.0$2.50$7.501M
13GPT-5OOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
14Gemma 4 26B A4B GGoogle4.50/5.0$0.060$0.330262K
15Gemma 4 31BGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.120$0.370262K
16DeepSeek V3.2DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.252$0.378131K
17DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.270$0.950164K
18Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.150$1.00262K
19Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQQwen4.50/5.0$0.188$1.131M
20Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
21Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
22Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.300$2.00262K
23MiMo-V2.5XXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.400$2.001.0M
24R1 0528DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.500$2.15164K
25Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.500$3.001.0M
26MiMo-V2.5-ProXXiaomi4.50/5.0$1.00$3.001.0M
27Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-ProXXiaomi4.50/5.0$1.00$3.001.0M
28o3OOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$8.00200K
29Gemini 3.5 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$1.50$9.001.0M
30GPT-5.2OOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.75$14.00400K
31Claude Sonnet 4.6AAnthropic4.50/5.0$3.00$15.001M
32Grok 4XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00256K
33Grok 3XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00131K
34Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BQQwen4.25/5.0$0.040$0.150262K
35OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.039$0.180131K
36NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNNVIDIA4.25/5.0$0.050$0.200262K
37DeepSeek V4 FlashDDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.100$0.2001.0M
38GPT-5 NanoOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.050$0.400400K
39GLM-4.7 FlashZZhipu AI4.25/5.0$0.060$0.400203K
40Grok 4.1 FastXXAI4.25/5.0$0.200$0.5002M
41DeepSeek V3.1DDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.210$0.790164K
42Mistral Medium 3.1MMistral4.25/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
43Grok 4.3XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.501M
44MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6MMoonshotAI4.25/5.0$0.730$3.49262K
45Mistral Medium 3.5MMistral4.25/5.0$1.50$7.50262K
46GPT-4.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.00$8.001.0M
47Gemini 2.5 ProGGoogle4.25/5.0$1.25$10.001.0M
48GPT-5.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
49Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGGoogle4.25/5.0$2.00$12.001.0M
50GPT-5.4OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
51Claude Opus 4.7AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
52Claude Opus 4.6AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
53GPT-5.5OOpenAI4.25/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
54Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.071$0.100262K
55Ministral 3 14B 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.200$0.200262K
56Grok Code Fast 1XXAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.50256K
57Mistral Large 3 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.500$1.50262K
58GPT-5.4 MiniOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.750$4.50400K
59OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.030$0.140131K
60GPT-4.1 MiniOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.400$1.601.0M
61Devstral 2 2512MMistral3.75/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
62R1DDeepSeek3.75/5.0$0.700$2.50164K
63Llama 3.3 70B InstructMMeta3.50/5.0$0.100$0.320131K
64Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
65Mistral Small 4MMistral3.50/5.0$0.150$0.600262K
66Gemini 2.5 FlashGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
67Grok 4.20XXAI3.50/5.0$1.25$2.502M
68Llama 4 ScoutMMeta3.25/5.0$0.080$0.30010M
69Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QQwen3.25/5.0$0.090$0.300262K
70Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXXiaomi3.25/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
71GPT-4.1 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
72Grok 3 MiniXXAI3.25/5.0$0.300$0.500131K
73Llama 4 MaverickMMeta3.25/5.0$0.150$0.6001.0M
74GPT-5.4 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.200$1.25400K
75Devstral MediumMMistral3.25/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
76Claude Haiku 4.5AAnthropic3.25/5.0$1.00$5.00200K
77GPT-4oOOpenAI3.25/5.0$2.50$10.00128K
78Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQQwen3.00/5.0$0.070$0.270160K
79Ministral 3 8B 2512MMistral2.75/5.0$0.150$0.150262K
80Mistral Small 3.1 24BMMistral2.75/5.0$0.351$0.555128K
81Ministral 3 3B 2512MMistral2.50/5.0$0.100$0.100131K
82Devstral Small 1.1MMistral2.50/5.0$0.100$0.300131K
83GPT-4o-miniOOpenAI2.50/5.0$0.150$0.600128K
84Codestral 2508MMistral2.50/5.0$0.300$0.900256K
85Mistral Small 3.2 24BMMistral2.25/5.0$0.075$0.200128K

Pricing — top 5 for data analysis

NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
$0.360/MTok
4.75/5.0
DDeepSeek V4 Pro
$0.761/MTok
4.75/5.0
QQwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
$0.785/MTok
4.75/5.0
ZGLM-4.7
$1.41/MTok
4.75/5.0
QQwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
$1.42/MTok
4.75/5.0
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