/best/data-analysisupdated October 2026164 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 164 models, scored for data analysis

weighted composite · lower-is-worse
#ModelProviderTask score$/in$/outContext
01Qwen: Qwen3.7 FlashQQwen4.75/5.0$0.030$0.1301M
02NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningNNVIDIA4.75/5.0$0.070$0.200262K
03NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNNVIDIA4.75/5.0$0.080$0.450262K
04Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.150$0.5001.0M
05inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.75/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
06Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQQwen4.75/5.0$0.080$0.750262K
07Inception: Mercury 2IInception4.75/5.0$0.250$0.750128K
08MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7MMinimax4.75/5.0$0.210$0.840205K
09OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.200$1.201.1M
10DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.007$1.281.0M
11Meituan: LongCat 2.0MMeituan4.75/5.0$0.300$1.201.0M
12Meta: Muse Glimmer 30BMMeta4.75/5.0$0.300$1.20131K
13Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20QQwen4.75/5.0$0.300$1.801M
14Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQQwen4.75/5.0$0.325$1.951M
15GPT-5 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00400K
16ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6BBytedance-seed4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
17DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.660$1.981.0M
18DeepSeek V4 ProDDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.948$1.901.0M
19xAI: Grok Build 0.1XXAI4.75/5.0$1.00$2.00256K
20GLM-4.7ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.600$2.20205K
21Google: Gemini 3.8 FlashGGoogle4.75/5.0$0.750$3.751.0M
22o4 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.10$4.40200K
23Qwen 3.7 MaxQQwen4.75/5.0$1.48$4.421M
24Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQQwen4.75/5.0$1.03$6.16262K
25Qwen: Qwen3.8 MaxQQwen4.75/5.0$2.00$6.001M
26AionLabs: Aion-3.0AAion-labs4.75/5.0$3.00$6.00131K
27Z.ai: GLM 5.2ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.060$7.001.0M
28GPT-5OOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
29Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$2.00$10.001M
30OpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.00$12.001.1M
31OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
32Anthropic: Claude Fable 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$10.00$50.001M
33Nex AGI: Nex-N2-MiniNNex-agi4.50/5.0$0.025$0.100262K
34Inception: Mercury 2.5 PreviewIInception4.50/5.0$0.040$0.150260K
35Gemma 4 26B A4B GGoogle4.50/5.0$0.068$0.225262K
36MiMo-V2.5XXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.140$0.2801.1M
37StepFun: Step 3.5 FlashSStepfun4.50/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
38Gemma 4 31BGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.090$0.340262K
39ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniBBytedance-seed4.50/5.0$0.100$0.400262K
40Qwen: Qwen3.8 FlashQQwen4.50/5.0$0.150$0.4701M
41inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.50/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
42Arcee AI: Trinity Large ThinkingAArcee-ai4.50/5.0$0.250$0.800262K
43DeepSeek V3.2DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.259$0.800164K
44MiMo-V2.5-ProXXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.435$0.8701.1M
45Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.150$1.00262K
46Nex-N2-ProNNex AGI4.50/5.0$0.250$1.00262K
47DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.270$1.00164K
48Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQQwen4.50/5.0$0.188$1.131M
49MiniMax: MiniMax M3MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.300$1.201.0M
50MiniMax: MiniMax M2MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.300$1.20205K
51Qwen: Qwen3.7 PlusQQwen4.50/5.0$0.320$1.281M
52Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
53Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
54AionLabs: Aion-2.0AAion-labs4.50/5.0$0.800$1.60131K
55R1 0528DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.500$2.15164K
56NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNNVIDIA4.50/5.0$0.500$2.20262K
57Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
58Qwen: Qwen3.8 27BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.425$2.551M
59Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.500$3.001.0M
60ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-CodeBBytedance-seed4.50/5.0$0.500$3.00262K
61Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.320$3.20262K
62Google: Gemini 3.7 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.750$3.751.0M
63Gemini 3.6 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.750$3.751.0M
64Meta: Muse Spark 1.3MMeta4.50/5.0$1.25$4.251.0M
65Meta: Muse Spark 1.1MMeta4.50/5.0$1.25$4.251.0M
66OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ProOOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.00$6.001.1M
67Sakana: Fugu MaxSSakana4.50/5.0$2.00$6.001M
68o3OOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$8.00200K
69Gemini 3.5 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$1.50$9.001.0M
70OpenAI: GPT-5.6 SolOOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$10.001.1M
71MoonshotAI: Kimi K3MMoonshotAI4.50/5.0$0.640$13.501.0M
72GPT-5.2OOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.75$14.00400K
73Claude Sonnet 4.6AAnthropic4.50/5.0$3.00$15.001M
74Grok 4XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00256K
75Grok 3XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00131K
76Claude Opus 5AAnthropic4.50/5.0$5.00$25.001M
77Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8AAnthropic4.50/5.0$5.00$25.001M
78OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol ProOOpenAI4.50/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
79Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)AAnthropic4.50/5.0$10.00$50.001M
80Claude Opus 5 (Fast)AAnthropic4.50/5.0$10.00$50.001M
81inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VLIInclusionai4.25/5.0$0.021$0.062262K
82Ling-3.0-flashIInclusionai4.25/5.0$0.021$0.063262K
83Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1PPoolside4.25/5.0$0.060$0.120262K
84OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.037$0.170131K
85Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BQQwen4.25/5.0$0.100$0.150262K
86Poolside Laguna S 2.1PPoolside4.25/5.0$0.090$0.1801.0M
87NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNNVIDIA4.25/5.0$0.060$0.240262K
88ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 FlashBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.075$0.300262K
89GPT-5 NanoOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.050$0.400400K
90GLM-4.7 FlashZZhipu AI4.25/5.0$0.060$0.400200K
91Grok 4.1 FastXXAI4.25/5.0$0.200$0.5002M
92DeepSeek V3.1DDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.250$0.950164K
93MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5MMinimax4.25/5.0$0.270$1.08205K
94StepFun: Step 3.7 FlashSStepfun4.25/5.0$0.200$1.15262K
95DeepSeek V4 FlashDDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.012$1.281.0M
96Thinking Machines: Inkling SmallTThinkingmachines4.25/5.0$0.450$1.20524K
97AionLabs: Aion-3.0-MiniAAion-labs4.25/5.0$0.700$1.40131K
98ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
99Mistral Medium 3.1MMistral4.25/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
100MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6MMoonshotAI4.25/5.0$0.465$2.45262K
101Grok 4.20XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.502M
102Grok 4.3XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.501M
103KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5KKwaipilot4.25/5.0$0.740$2.96262K
104Kimi K2.7 CodeMMoonshot AI4.25/5.0$0.671$3.35262K
105Thinking Machines: InklingTThinkingmachines4.25/5.0$1.00$4.05524K
106Meta: Muse Spark 1.2MMeta4.25/5.0$1.25$4.251.0M
107Z.ai: GLM 5.3ZZhipu AI4.25/5.0$0.039$4.801.0M
108Grok 4.5XXAI4.25/5.0$2.00$6.00500K
109Grok 4.6XXAI4.25/5.0$2.00$6.00500K
110Mistral Medium 3.5MMistral4.25/5.0$1.50$7.50262K
111GPT-4.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.00$8.001.0M
112Gemini 2.5 ProGGoogle4.25/5.0$1.25$10.001.0M
113GPT-5.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
114Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGGoogle4.25/5.0$2.00$12.001.0M
115GPT-5.4OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
116Claude Opus 4.7AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
117Claude Opus 4.6AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
118GPT-5.5OOpenAI4.25/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
119Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1AAnthropic4.25/5.0$10.00$50.001M
120inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flashIInclusionai4.00/5.0$0.010$0.030262K
121Inception: Mercury 2.5IInception4.00/5.0$0.040$0.150260K
122Ministral 3 14B 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.200$0.200262K
123Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
124Upstage: Solar Pro 4UUpstage4.00/5.0$0.090$0.360524K
125Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.090$0.550262K
126Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2KKwaipilot4.00/5.0$0.300$1.20262K
127GPT-5.4 NanoOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.25400K
128Grok Code Fast 1XXAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.50256K
129Mistral Large 3 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.500$1.50262K
130Seed 2.1 TurboBByteDance4.00/5.0$0.500$2.50262K
131GPT-5.4 MiniOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.750$4.50400K
132Claude Haiku 4.5AAnthropic4.00/5.0$1.00$5.00200K
133OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.018$0.090131K
134IBM: Granite 4.2 8BIIbm-granite3.75/5.0$0.060$0.250131K
135Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXXiaomi3.75/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
136KAT-Coder-Air V2.5KKwaipilot3.75/5.0$0.150$0.600256K
137MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1MMinimax3.75/5.0$0.300$1.20205K
138GPT-4.1 MiniOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.400$1.601.0M
139Devstral 2 2512MMistral3.75/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
140R1DDeepSeek3.75/5.0$0.700$2.5064K
141IBM: Granite 4.1 8BIIbm-granite3.50/5.0$0.050$0.100131K
142Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
143Llama 3.3 70B InstructMMeta3.50/5.0$0.220$0.500131K
144Mistral Small 4MMistral3.50/5.0$0.150$0.600262K
145Gemini 2.5 FlashGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
146Ministral 3 8B 2512MMistral3.25/5.0$0.150$0.150262K
147Llama 4 ScoutMMeta3.25/5.0$0.100$0.3001.3M
148GPT-4.1 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
149Grok 3 MiniXXAI3.25/5.0$0.300$0.500131K
150Upstage: Solar Pro 3UUpstage3.25/5.0$0.150$0.600131K
151Llama 4 MaverickMMeta3.25/5.0$0.188$0.6521.0M
152Relace: Relace SearchRRelace3.25/5.0$1.00$3.00256K
153GPT-4oOOpenAI3.25/5.0$2.50$10.00128K
154Ministral 3 3B 2512MMistral3.00/5.0$0.100$0.100131K
155Mistral Small 3.2 24BMMistral3.00/5.0$0.094$0.250256K
156Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQQwen3.00/5.0$0.070$0.280262K
157GPT-4o-miniOOpenAI3.00/5.0$0.150$0.600128K
158Codestral 2508MMistral3.00/5.0$0.300$0.900256K
159MiniMax: MiniMax-01MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.200$1.101.0M
160MiniMax: MiniMax M1MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.550$2.201M
161Mistral Small 3.1 24BMMistral2.75/5.0$0.351$0.555128K
162MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herMMinimax2.75/5.0$0.300$1.2066K
163IBM: Granite 4.0 MicroIIbm-granite2.50/5.0$0.017$0.112131K
164Sakana: Sakana NamazuSSakana0.25/5.0$0.950$4.00262K

Pricing — top 5 for data analysis

QQwen: Qwen3.7 Flash
$0.105/MTok
4.75/5.0
NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
$0.167/MTok
4.75/5.0
NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
$0.357/MTok
4.75/5.0
ZZ.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
$0.412/MTok
4.75/5.0
IinclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T
$0.487/MTok
4.75/5.0
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