Best Reasoning AI Models

Thinking-capable AI models ranked by intelligence score.

Updated October 14, 2026

RankModelProviderScoreReasoning Score
1OpenAI: o1-proopenrouter97.097.0
2o3openai96.096.0
3GPT-5openai95.095.0
4GPT-5openai95.095.0
5o1openai95.095.0
6OpenAI: o1openrouter95.095.0
7o1openai95.095.0
8Claude Sonnet 4anthropic92.092.0
9DeepSeek: R1openrouter91.091.0
10o4-miniopenai90.090.0
11DeepSeek R1 (NetMind)netmind88.088.0
12o3-miniopenai85.085.0
13Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)openrouter85.085.0
14Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Proopenrouter84.084.0
15Perplexity: Sonar Deep Researchopenrouter82.082.0
16o1-miniopenai80.080.0
17xAI: Grok 4.20 Betaopenrouter80.080.0
18xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Betaopenrouter80.080.0
19Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinkingopenrouter77.077.0
20OpenAI: o3 Mini Highopenrouter77.077.0
21DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bhuggingface74.074.0
22Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingopenrouter74.074.0
23Grok 3 Minixai72.072.0
24QwQ 32Bhuggingface72.072.0
25MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingopenrouter72.072.0
26DeepSeek: R1 0528openrouter72.072.0
27Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinkingopenrouter70.070.0
28TNG: DeepSeek R1T2 Chimeraopenrouter68.068.0
29DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bopenrouter68.068.0
30Qwen3 8B (NetMind)netmind65.065.0
31Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinkingopenrouter62.062.0
32Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507openrouter62.062.0
33DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32Bopenrouter61.061.0
34Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)openrouter61.061.0
35DeepSeek R1netmind60.060.0
36Claude Sonnet 5 (NetMind)netmind57.057.0
37Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingsemantic-cache55.055.0
38o3-minisemantic-cache55.055.0
39Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507openrouter54.054.0
40LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)openrouter51.051.0
41Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free)openrouter51.051.0
42Kimi K2 Thinkingfireworks50.050.0
43Qwen3.5-27Bnovita50.050.0
44MiniMax-M2novita50.050.0
45GLM 4.6novita50.050.0
46MiniMax M2.5novita50.050.0
47XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2-Flashnovita50.050.0
48Deepseek V3.2 Expnovita50.050.0
49Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingnovita50.050.0
50GLM 4.6Vnovita50.050.0