Best AI for data analysis
Querying, transforming, and interpreting structured data.
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 120 models, scored for data analysis
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 4.75/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.450 | 1M |
| 02 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.75/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 03 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 4.75/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 04 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 4.75/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| 05 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 4.75/5.0 | $0.240 | $0.960 | 205K |
| 06 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 4.75/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 07 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 4.75/5.0 | $0.406 | $1.28 | 1.0M |
| 08 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 4.75/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.75 | 203K |
| 09 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 4.75/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 10 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 4.75/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 11 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 12 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 4.75/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 13 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 4.75/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 14 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 4.75/5.0 | $1.25 | $3.75 | 1M |
| 15 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 16 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 17 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 18 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 4.75/5.0 | $1.04 | $6.24 | 262K |
| 19 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 20 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 4.75/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 21 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 22 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 4.75/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 23 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 4.75/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 24 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 4.50/5.0 | $0.105 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| 25 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 26 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.330 | 262K |
| 27 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.120 | $0.350 | 262K |
| 28 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.214 | $0.322 | 131K |
| 29 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 30 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.50/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 31 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.800 | 262K |
| 32 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.50/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| 33 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.270 | $0.950 | 164K |
| 34 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 35 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 36 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.255 | $1.02 | 205K |
| 37 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 38 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 39 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 40 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 41 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 42 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 43 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 4.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 44 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.285 | $2.40 | 262K |
| 45 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 46 | o3 | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 47 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 48 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 49 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 50 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 51 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 52 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 53 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 54 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 55 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 56 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.25/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 57 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.25/5.0 | $0.077 | $0.154 | 1.0M |
| 58 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.25/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 59 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.036 | $0.180 | 131K |
| 60 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 4.25/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 61 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 4.25/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 62 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 63 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 203K |
| 64 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 65 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.25/5.0 | $0.210 | $0.790 | 164K |
| 66 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 4.25/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.900 | 205K |
| 67 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 4.25/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 256K |
| 68 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 4.25/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 69 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.25/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 70 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.25/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 71 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.660 | $3.41 | 262K |
| 72 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 4.25/5.0 | $0.720 | $3.50 | 262K |
| 73 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 4.25/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 74 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.25/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 75 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 76 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.25/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 77 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 78 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 4.25/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 79 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 80 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.25/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 81 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.25/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 82 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.25/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 83 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 4.00/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 84 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.100 | 262K |
| 85 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 86 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 256K |
| 87 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 88 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 89 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 90 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 3.75/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.140 | 131K |
| 91 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 3.75/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 92 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 3.75/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 93 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 3.75/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 94 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 3.75/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 95 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 3.75/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 164K |
| 96 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.320 | 131K |
| 97 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 98 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 3.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 99 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 3.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 100 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 3.50/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 101 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 3.25/5.0 | $0.048 | $0.193 | 131K |
| 102 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.25/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 10M |
| 103 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 3.25/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 104 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 3.25/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 105 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 3.25/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 1.0M |
| 106 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 3.25/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 107 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 3.25/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 108 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.25/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 109 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 3.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 110 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 3.00/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.270 | 160K |
| 111 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 3.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 112 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 3.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 113 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 2.75/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 114 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 2.75/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 115 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 2.75/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 116 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 2.50/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
| 117 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 2.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 118 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 2.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 119 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 2.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 120 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 2.25/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.200 | 128K |
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