Best LLMs for reasoning & analysis
Hard problems, math, research analysis, planning. Every model in the catalog, ranked three ways and priced at a realistic 12M input / 4M output tokens a month for this task.
What the engine picks on the default cost/quality/speed mix before you touch a slider.
Top task score (98/100) at $160/mo for this volume.
The cheapest model that stays close to the leader on quality — 90/100 at $5.04/mo.
By quality
Highest task score first.
Best value
Most quality per dollar of monthly spend.
Cheapest
Lowest monthly cost at this volume.
Fit to your volume
The ranking above prices a typical month. Enter your own reasoning & analysis volume and, if you like, a monthly ceiling — the picks re-rank as you type. No signup.
| Model | Quality | Per month | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 nano OpenAI | 74 | $2.20 | 33.64 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral | 74 | $2.40 | 30.83 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google | 70 | $2.80 | 25.00 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast xAI | 84 | $4.40 | 19.09 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | 90 | $5.04 | 17.86 |
| Qwen3 235B Alibaba (Qwen) | 88 | $6.16 | 14.29 |
| Llama 4 Maverick Meta | 82 | $6.64 | 12.35 |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | 77 | $9.20 | 8.37 |
Value = quality points per dollar of monthly spend at your volume. Quality scores are benchmark-informed estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before migrating.
Price your own reasoning & analysis volume
These rankings use a typical monthly volume. Plug in your real token counts and the free estimator re-ranks every model on cost and quality.
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Prices are list $/1M tokens, hand-maintained from public provider pricing. Quality scores are benchmark-informed 0-100 estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before moving production traffic. Not affiliated with any model provider. Compare Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2