/best/data-analysisupdated August 2026137 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 137 models, scored for data analysis

weighted composite · lower-is-worse
#ModelProviderTask score$/in$/outContext
01Qwen: Qwen3.8 MaxQQwen5.00/5.0$2.00$6.001M
02Qwen: Qwen3.7 FlashQQwen4.75/5.0$0.030$0.1301M
03DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.140$0.2801.3M
04NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNNVIDIA4.75/5.0$0.085$0.4001M
05inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.75/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
06Inception: Mercury 2IInception4.75/5.0$0.250$0.750128K
07OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.200$1.201.1M
08MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7MMinimax4.75/5.0$0.300$1.20205K
09Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQQwen4.75/5.0$0.250$1.25262K
10DeepSeek V4 ProDDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.790$1.581.0M
11GLM-4.7ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.400$1.75205K
12Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20QQwen4.75/5.0$0.300$1.801M
13Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQQwen4.75/5.0$0.325$1.951M
14GPT-5 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00400K
15ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6BBytedance-seed4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
16xAI: Grok Build 0.1XXAI4.75/5.0$1.00$2.00256K
17Z.ai: GLM 5.2ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$1.19$3.741.0M
18o4 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.10$4.40200K
19Qwen 3.7 MaxQQwen4.75/5.0$1.48$4.421M
20Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQQwen4.75/5.0$1.03$6.16262K
21GPT-5OOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
22Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$2.00$10.001M
23OpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.00$12.001.1M
24OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
25Anthropic: Claude Fable 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$10.00$50.001M
26MiMo-V2.5XXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.140$0.2801.1M
27StepFun: Step 3.5 FlashSStepfun4.50/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
28Gemma 4 26B A4B GGoogle4.50/5.0$0.070$0.340262K
29Gemma 4 31BGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.100$0.340262K
30ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniBBytedance-seed4.50/5.0$0.100$0.400262K
31DeepSeek V3.2DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.260$0.380164K
32inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.50/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
33Arcee AI: Trinity Large ThinkingAArcee-ai4.50/5.0$0.220$0.850262K
34MiMo-V2.5-ProXXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.435$0.8701.1M
35Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.140$1.00262K
36Nex-N2-ProNNex AGI4.50/5.0$0.250$1.00262K
37DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.270$1.00164K
38MiniMax: MiniMax M2MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.255$1.02205K
39Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQQwen4.50/5.0$0.188$1.131M
40MiniMax: MiniMax M3MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.300$1.201.0M
41Qwen: Qwen3.7 PlusQQwen4.50/5.0$0.320$1.281M
42Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
43Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
44R1 0528DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.500$2.15164K
45Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
46Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.500$3.001.0M
47ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-CodeBBytedance-seed4.50/5.0$0.500$3.00262K
48Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.320$3.20262K
49NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNNVIDIA4.50/5.0$0.600$3.60512K
50Gemini 3.6 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.750$3.751.0M
51Meta: Muse Spark 1.1MMeta4.50/5.0$1.25$4.251.0M
52OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ProOOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.00$6.001.1M
53o3OOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$8.00200K
54Gemini 3.5 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$1.50$9.001.0M
55OpenAI: GPT-5.6 SolOOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$10.001.1M
56GPT-5.2OOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.75$14.00400K
57Claude Sonnet 4.6AAnthropic4.50/5.0$3.00$15.001M
58MoonshotAI: Kimi K3MMoonshotAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.001.0M
59Grok 4XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00256K
60Grok 3XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00131K
61Claude Opus 5AAnthropic4.50/5.0$5.00$25.001M
62Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8AAnthropic4.50/5.0$5.00$25.001M
63OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol ProOOpenAI4.50/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
64Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)AAnthropic4.50/5.0$10.00$50.001M
65Claude Opus 5 (Fast)AAnthropic4.50/5.0$10.00$50.001M
66Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1PPoolside4.25/5.0$0.060$0.120262K
67OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.037$0.170131K
68Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BQQwen4.25/5.0$0.100$0.150262K
69DeepSeek V4 FlashDDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.089$0.1771.0M
70Poolside Laguna S 2.1PPoolside4.25/5.0$0.090$0.1801.0M
71NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNNVIDIA4.25/5.0$0.050$0.200262K
72ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 FlashBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.075$0.300262K
73GPT-5 NanoOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.050$0.400400K
74GLM-4.7 FlashZZhipu AI4.25/5.0$0.060$0.400203K
75Grok 4.1 FastXXAI4.25/5.0$0.200$0.5002M
76MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5MMinimax4.25/5.0$0.270$1.08205K
77StepFun: Step 3.7 FlashSStepfun4.25/5.0$0.200$1.15262K
78Thinking Machines: Inkling SmallTThinkingmachines4.25/5.0$0.450$1.201.0M
79DeepSeek V3.1DDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.550$1.65164K
80ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
81Mistral Medium 3.1MMistral4.25/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
82Grok 4.20XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.502M
83Grok 4.3XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.501M
84KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5KKwaipilot4.25/5.0$0.740$2.96256K
85Kimi K2.7 CodeMMoonshot AI4.25/5.0$0.670$3.40262K
86MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6MMoonshotAI4.25/5.0$0.950$4.00262K
87Thinking Machines: InklingTThinkingmachines4.25/5.0$0.950$4.051.0M
88Grok 4.6XXAI4.25/5.0$2.00$6.00500K
89Grok 4.5XXAI4.25/5.0$2.00$6.00500K
90Mistral Medium 3.5MMistral4.25/5.0$1.50$7.50262K
91GPT-4.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.00$8.001.0M
92GPT-5.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
93Gemini 2.5 ProGGoogle4.25/5.0$1.25$10.001.0M
94Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGGoogle4.25/5.0$2.00$12.001.0M
95GPT-5.4OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
96Claude Opus 4.7AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
97Claude Opus 4.6AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
98GPT-5.5OOpenAI4.25/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
99inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flashIInclusionai4.00/5.0$0.010$0.030262K
100Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.048$0.193262K
101Ministral 3 14B 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.200$0.200262K
102Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.090$0.550262K
103Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2KKwaipilot4.00/5.0$0.300$1.20262K
104GPT-5.4 NanoOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.25400K
105Grok Code Fast 1XXAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.50256K
106Mistral Large 3 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.500$1.50262K
107Seed 2.1 TurboBByteDance4.00/5.0$0.500$2.50262K
108GPT-5.4 MiniOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.750$4.50400K
109Claude Haiku 4.5AAnthropic4.00/5.0$1.00$5.00200K
110OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.030$0.130131K
111Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXXiaomi3.75/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
112KAT-Coder-Air V2.5KKwaipilot3.75/5.0$0.150$0.600256K
113MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1MMinimax3.75/5.0$0.300$1.20205K
114GPT-4.1 MiniOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.400$1.601.0M
115Devstral 2 2512MMistral3.75/5.0$0.440$2.20262K
116R1DDeepSeek3.75/5.0$0.700$2.5064K
117IBM: Granite 4.1 8BIIbm-granite3.50/5.0$0.050$0.100131K
118Llama 3.3 70B InstructMMeta3.50/5.0$0.100$0.320131K
119Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
120Mistral Small 4MMistral3.50/5.0$0.150$0.600262K
121Gemini 2.5 FlashGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
122Ministral 3 8B 2512MMistral3.25/5.0$0.150$0.150262K
123Llama 4 ScoutMMeta3.25/5.0$0.100$0.3001.3M
124GPT-4.1 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
125Grok 3 MiniXXAI3.25/5.0$0.300$0.500131K
126Llama 4 MaverickMMeta3.25/5.0$0.200$0.8001.0M
127GPT-4oOOpenAI3.25/5.0$2.50$10.00128K
128Ministral 3 3B 2512MMistral3.00/5.0$0.100$0.100131K
129Mistral Small 3.2 24BMMistral3.00/5.0$0.075$0.200131K
130Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQQwen3.00/5.0$0.070$0.280262K
131GPT-4o-miniOOpenAI3.00/5.0$0.150$0.600128K
132Codestral 2508MMistral3.00/5.0$0.300$0.900256K
133MiniMax: MiniMax-01MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.200$1.101.0M
134MiniMax: MiniMax M1MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.550$2.201M
135Mistral Small 3.1 24BMMistral2.75/5.0$0.351$0.555128K
136MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herMMinimax2.75/5.0$0.300$1.2066K
137IBM: Granite 4.0 MicroIIbm-granite2.50/5.0$0.017$0.112131K

Pricing — top 5 for data analysis

QQwen: Qwen3.8 Max
$5.00/MTok
5.00/5.0
QQwen: Qwen3.7 Flash
$0.105/MTok
4.75/5.0
DDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
$0.245/MTok
4.75/5.0
NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
$0.321/MTok
4.75/5.0
IinclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T
$0.487/MTok
4.75/5.0
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