Best AI model for reasoning and analysis

Measured in Nivana’s weekly evals (updated 2026-10-25): Claude Opus scores highest on reasoning at 98/100. The router also weighs price and speed, so its pick depends on how hard the request is.

What the router picks

  • Easy: GPT-6 Luna
  • Medium: Claude Sonnet
  • Hard: Claude Opus

Ranked by measured quality

ModelLabScorePrice
Claude OpusAnthropic98$4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens
Claude SonnetAnthropic90$2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle85$2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
GPT-5.5OpenAI84$5 in / $30 out per 1M tokens
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot83$2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI82$2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
Muse SparkMeta82$1.25 in / $4.25 out per 1M tokens
DeepSeek FlashDeepSeek81$0.075 in / $0.3 out per 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek80$0.66 in / $1.98 out per 1M tokens
Grok 4.7xAI80$2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens
Mistral LargeMistral AI78$1.36 in / $4.18 out per 1M tokens
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI74$0.1 in / $0.5 out per 1M tokens
Gemini FlashGoogle74$0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M tokens
Claude HaikuAnthropic73$0.1 in / $0.5 out per 1M tokens