/best/tabular-dataupdated August 2026131 models evaluated
Best AI for tabular data & spreadsheets
Reading, reasoning over, and extracting values from tables, CSVs, and spreadsheets.
Everyone who's pasted a spreadsheet into an LLM knows the failure mode: the model confidently returns a number from the wrong row, miscounts columns, or hallucinates a value from an adjacent cell. Tabular comprehension is one of the most practically important capabilities, and one of the least benchmarked.
Our test uses three escalating prompts: a clean 15-row CSV with multi-step arithmetic questions, a messy markdown table with ambiguity traps (two employees with the same name but different IDs, mixed date formats, a false alarm row that should be excluded), and a cross-reference task requiring joins across two related tables. Every question has a single unambiguous correct answer verified against ground truth.
The results are surprising. Budget models like Qwen3.5-9B ($0.15/MTok) and DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.28) score a perfect 5/5, matching frontier models costing 100× more. The real differentiation comes on the cross-reference prompt — mid-tier models that ace the first two prompts start making arithmetic errors when they need to join tables and aggregate across them. If your use case involves pasting CSVs or financial reports into an LLM, this benchmark tells you exactly which models you can trust.
Full rankings
All 131 models, scored for tabular data & spreadsheets
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 1M |
| 02 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 03 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M |
| 04 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.085 | $0.400 | 1M |
| 05 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.269 | $0.400 | 164K |
| 06 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.600 | 1.1M |
| 07 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 08 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.900 | 205K |
| 09 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| 10 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.950 | 164K |
| 11 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 12 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 13 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 14 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 205K |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 16 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K |
| 17 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 18 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 19 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 20 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.75 | 205K |
| 21 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 22 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 23 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 24 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 25 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 26 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 27 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 28 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.600 | $3.41 | 262K |
| 29 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.19 | $3.74 | 1.0M |
| 30 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $4.05 | 1.0M |
| 31 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 32 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 33 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M |
| 34 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 35 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262K |
| 36 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 37 | o3 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 38 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 39 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 40 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 41 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 42 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 43 | Claude Opus 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 44 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 45 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 46 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 47 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 48 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.67/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 49 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.037 | $0.170 | 131K |
| 50 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 51 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 4.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 52 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 53 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 54 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 55 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 4.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 56 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 57 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 58 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 4.67/5.0 | $0.220 | $0.850 | 262K |
| 59 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.67/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.1M |
| 60 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 4.67/5.0 | $0.255 | $1.02 | 205K |
| 61 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 62 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 63 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 64 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 65 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 4.67/5.0 | $0.740 | $2.96 | 256K |
| 66 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 4.67/5.0 | $0.730 | $3.50 | 262K |
| 67 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 4.67/5.0 | $0.600 | $3.60 | 512K |
| 68 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 69 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1.0M |
| 70 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.67/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 71 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 72 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 73 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 74 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | MMoonshotAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M |
| 75 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 76 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 4.67/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 77 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 78 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 79 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 80 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 4.67/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 81 | Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 4.67/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 82 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 4.33/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 83 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 4.33/5.0 | $0.048 | $0.193 | 262K |
| 84 | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.33/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M |
| 85 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 4.33/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 86 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| 87 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 203K |
| 88 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 89 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 90 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 91 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 4.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.598 | 262K |
| 92 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.00 | 164K |
| 93 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 4.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 262K |
| 94 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 4.33/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 95 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 4.33/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 96 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.33/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 97 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 4.33/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 164K |
| 98 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 4.33/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 99 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.33/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 100 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.33/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 101 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 102 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.33/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 103 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 131K |
| 104 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 105 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 106 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 256K |
| 107 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 108 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.800 | 1.0M |
| 109 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 110 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 111 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 112 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 113 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 114 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 115 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 116 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 4.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 117 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 118 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 3.67/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.200 | 256K |
| 119 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 3.67/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.280 | 262K |
| 120 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.67/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 1.3M |
| 121 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.67/5.0 | $0.130 | $0.400 | 131K |
| 122 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 3.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 123 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 3.67/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 124 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 3.67/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 125 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.67/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 126 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 3.33/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 127 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 3.33/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 128 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 129 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 3.00/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 130 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 3.00/5.0 | $0.550 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 131 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 2.33/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
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