/best/data-analysisupdated July 2026120 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 120 models, scored for data analysis

weighted composite · lower-is-worse
#ModelProviderTask score$/in$/outContext
01NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNNVIDIA4.75/5.0$0.080$0.4501M
02inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.75/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
03Inception: Mercury 2IInception4.75/5.0$0.250$0.750128K
04DeepSeek V4 ProDDeepSeek4.75/5.0$0.435$0.8701.0M
05MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7MMinimax4.75/5.0$0.240$0.960205K
06Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQQwen4.75/5.0$0.140$1.00262K
07Z.ai: GLM 5.2ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.406$1.281.0M
08GLM-4.7ZZhipu AI4.75/5.0$0.400$1.75203K
09Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20QQwen4.75/5.0$0.300$1.801M
10Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQQwen4.75/5.0$0.325$1.951M
11GPT-5 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00400K
12ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6BBytedance-seed4.75/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
13xAI: Grok Build 0.1XXAI4.75/5.0$1.00$2.00256K
14Qwen 3.7 MaxQQwen4.75/5.0$1.25$3.751M
15o4 MiniOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.10$4.40200K
16OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.00$6.001.1M
17OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ProOOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.00$6.001.1M
18Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQQwen4.75/5.0$1.04$6.24262K
19GPT-5OOpenAI4.75/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
20Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$2.00$10.001M
21OpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
22OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProOOpenAI4.75/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
23Anthropic: Claude Fable 5AAnthropic4.75/5.0$10.00$50.001M
24MiMo-V2.5XXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.105$0.2801.0M
25StepFun: Step 3.5 FlashSStepfun4.50/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
26Gemma 4 26B A4B GGoogle4.50/5.0$0.060$0.330262K
27Gemma 4 31BGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.120$0.350262K
28DeepSeek V3.2DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.214$0.322131K
29ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniBBytedance-seed4.50/5.0$0.100$0.400262K
30inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1TIInclusionai4.50/5.0$0.075$0.625262K
31Arcee AI: Trinity Large ThinkingAArcee-ai4.50/5.0$0.250$0.800262K
32MiMo-V2.5-ProXXiaomi4.50/5.0$0.435$0.8701.0M
33DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.270$0.950164K
34Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.140$1.00262K
35Nex-N2-ProNNex AGI4.50/5.0$0.250$1.00262K
36MiniMax: MiniMax M2MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.255$1.02205K
37Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQQwen4.50/5.0$0.188$1.131M
38MiniMax: MiniMax M3MMinimax4.50/5.0$0.300$1.201.0M
39Qwen: Qwen3.7 PlusQQwen4.50/5.0$0.320$1.281M
40Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
41Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.250$1.501.0M
42R1 0528DDeepSeek4.50/5.0$0.500$2.15164K
43NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNNVIDIA4.50/5.0$0.500$2.201M
44Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BQQwen4.50/5.0$0.285$2.40262K
45Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGGoogle4.50/5.0$0.500$3.001.0M
46o3OOpenAI4.50/5.0$2.00$8.00200K
47Gemini 3.5 FlashGGoogle4.50/5.0$1.50$9.001.0M
48GPT-5.2OOpenAI4.50/5.0$1.75$14.00400K
49Claude Sonnet 4.6AAnthropic4.50/5.0$3.00$15.001M
50Grok 4XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00256K
51Grok 3XXAI4.50/5.0$3.00$15.00131K
52Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8AAnthropic4.50/5.0$5.00$25.001M
53OpenAI: GPT-5.6 SolOOpenAI4.50/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
54OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol ProOOpenAI4.50/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
55Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)AAnthropic4.50/5.0$10.00$50.001M
56Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1PPoolside4.25/5.0$0.060$0.120262K
57DeepSeek V4 FlashDDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.077$0.1541.0M
58Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BQQwen4.25/5.0$0.100$0.150262K
59OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.036$0.180131K
60NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNNVIDIA4.25/5.0$0.050$0.200262K
61ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 FlashBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.075$0.300262K
62GPT-5 NanoOOpenAI4.25/5.0$0.050$0.400400K
63GLM-4.7 FlashZZhipu AI4.25/5.0$0.060$0.400203K
64Grok 4.1 FastXXAI4.25/5.0$0.200$0.5002M
65DeepSeek V3.1DDeepSeek4.25/5.0$0.210$0.790164K
66MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5MMinimax4.25/5.0$0.150$0.900205K
67StepFun: Step 3.7 FlashSStepfun4.25/5.0$0.200$1.15256K
68ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteBBytedance-seed4.25/5.0$0.250$2.00262K
69Mistral Medium 3.1MMistral4.25/5.0$0.400$2.00131K
70Grok 4.3XXAI4.25/5.0$1.25$2.501M
71MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6MMoonshotAI4.25/5.0$0.660$3.41262K
72Kimi K2.7 CodeMMoonshot AI4.25/5.0$0.720$3.50262K
73Grok 4.5XXAI4.25/5.0$2.00$6.00500K
74Mistral Medium 3.5MMistral4.25/5.0$1.50$7.50262K
75GPT-4.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.00$8.001.0M
76Gemini 2.5 ProGGoogle4.25/5.0$1.25$10.001.0M
77GPT-5.1OOpenAI4.25/5.0$1.25$10.00400K
78Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGGoogle4.25/5.0$2.00$12.001.0M
79GPT-5.4OOpenAI4.25/5.0$2.50$15.001.1M
80Claude Opus 4.7AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
81Claude Opus 4.6AAnthropic4.25/5.0$5.00$25.001M
82GPT-5.5OOpenAI4.25/5.0$5.00$30.001.1M
83inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flashIInclusionai4.00/5.0$0.010$0.030262K
84Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QQwen4.00/5.0$0.090$0.100262K
85Ministral 3 14B 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.200$0.200262K
86Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2KKwaipilot4.00/5.0$0.300$1.20256K
87Grok Code Fast 1XXAI4.00/5.0$0.200$1.50256K
88Mistral Large 3 2512MMistral4.00/5.0$0.500$1.50262K
89GPT-5.4 MiniOOpenAI4.00/5.0$0.750$4.50400K
90OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.030$0.140131K
91Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXXiaomi3.75/5.0$0.100$0.300262K
92MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1MMinimax3.75/5.0$0.300$1.20205K
93GPT-4.1 MiniOOpenAI3.75/5.0$0.400$1.601.0M
94Devstral 2 2512MMistral3.75/5.0$0.400$2.00262K
95R1DDeepSeek3.75/5.0$0.700$2.50164K
96Llama 3.3 70B InstructMMeta3.50/5.0$0.100$0.320131K
97Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
98Mistral Small 4MMistral3.50/5.0$0.150$0.600262K
99Gemini 2.5 FlashGGoogle3.50/5.0$0.300$2.501.0M
100Grok 4.20XXAI3.50/5.0$1.25$2.502M
101Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QQwen3.25/5.0$0.048$0.193131K
102Llama 4 ScoutMMeta3.25/5.0$0.100$0.30010M
103GPT-4.1 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.100$0.4001.0M
104Grok 3 MiniXXAI3.25/5.0$0.300$0.500131K
105Llama 4 MaverickMMeta3.25/5.0$0.150$0.6001.0M
106GPT-5.4 NanoOOpenAI3.25/5.0$0.200$1.25400K
107Claude Haiku 4.5AAnthropic3.25/5.0$1.00$5.00200K
108GPT-4oOOpenAI3.25/5.0$2.50$10.00128K
109IBM: Granite 4.1 8BIIbm-granite3.00/5.0$0.050$0.100131K
110Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQQwen3.00/5.0$0.070$0.270160K
111MiniMax: MiniMax-01MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.200$1.101.0M
112MiniMax: MiniMax M1MMinimax3.00/5.0$0.400$2.201M
113Ministral 3 8B 2512MMistral2.75/5.0$0.150$0.150262K
114Mistral Small 3.1 24BMMistral2.75/5.0$0.351$0.555128K
115MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herMMinimax2.75/5.0$0.300$1.2066K
116IBM: Granite 4.0 MicroIIbm-granite2.50/5.0$0.017$0.112131K
117Ministral 3 3B 2512MMistral2.50/5.0$0.100$0.100131K
118GPT-4o-miniOOpenAI2.50/5.0$0.150$0.600128K
119Codestral 2508MMistral2.50/5.0$0.300$0.900256K
120Mistral Small 3.2 24BMMistral2.25/5.0$0.075$0.200128K

Pricing — top 5 for data analysis

NNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
$0.357/MTok
4.75/5.0
IinclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T
$0.487/MTok
4.75/5.0
IInception: Mercury 2
$0.625/MTok
4.75/5.0
DDeepSeek V4 Pro
$0.761/MTok
4.75/5.0
MMiniMax: MiniMax M2.7
$0.780/MTok
4.75/5.0
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