Best Reasoning AI Models

Thinking-capable AI models ranked by intelligence score.

Updated October 12, 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
14o1-miniopenai80.080.0
15xAI: Grok 4.20 Betaopenrouter80.080.0
16xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Betaopenrouter80.080.0
17Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinkingopenrouter77.077.0
18OpenAI: o3 Mini Highopenrouter77.077.0
19DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bhuggingface74.074.0
20Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingopenrouter74.074.0
21Grok 3 Minixai72.072.0
22QwQ 32Bhuggingface72.072.0
23MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingopenrouter72.072.0
24DeepSeek: R1 0528openrouter72.072.0
25Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinkingopenrouter70.070.0
26TNG: DeepSeek R1T2 Chimeraopenrouter68.068.0
27DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bopenrouter68.068.0
28Qwen3 8B (NetMind)netmind65.065.0
29Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinkingopenrouter62.062.0
30Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507openrouter62.062.0
31DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32Bopenrouter61.061.0
32Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)openrouter61.061.0
33DeepSeek R1netmind60.060.0
34Claude Sonnet 5 (NetMind)netmind57.057.0
35Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingsemantic-cache55.055.0
36o3-minisemantic-cache55.055.0
37Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507openrouter54.054.0
38LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)openrouter51.051.0
39Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free)openrouter51.051.0
40Kimi K2 Thinkingfireworks50.050.0
41Qwen3.5-27Bnovita50.050.0
42MiniMax-M2novita50.050.0
43GLM 4.6novita50.050.0
44MiniMax M2.5novita50.050.0
45XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2-Flashnovita50.050.0
46Deepseek V3.2 Expnovita50.050.0
47Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingnovita50.050.0
48GLM 4.6Vnovita50.050.0
49Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instructnovita50.050.0
50Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingnovita50.050.0