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- No shared score covers this job yet, so this page ranks nothing. Every model in the job is listed below with the reason.
- A model counts for this job when its taxonomy v2 classification names rag and retrieval, or its old category maps to it.
- Each model must list text input on OpenRouter or on its own record.
- Prices and scores come from the market tables only, each with the day it is for. The price on a model's own record is not used.
- Missing data never ranks. A model with no confirmed score in the last 30 days or unknown inputs and outputs is listed apart, with the reason. Price is shown when one is confirmed, and is not needed to rank.
Market data as of 10 Nov 2026. Prices: OpenRouter models API (official).
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No confirmed score in the market tables in the last 30 days 360
- Agnes 1.5 Pro No shared score covers this job yet
- AI21 Jamba 1.5 Mini No shared score covers this job yet
- AionLabs: Aion-1.0-Mini No shared score covers this job yet
- Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) No shared score covers this job yet
- Arcee AI: Spotlight No shared score covers this job yet
- Baidu: CoBuddy (free) No shared score covers this job yet
- Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast No shared score covers this job yet
- bevformer No shared score covers this job yet
- BGE M3 No shared score covers this job yet
- BGE Reranker Base No shared score covers this job yet
- BGE Small EN v1.5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Bielik 11B v3.0 Instruct No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Max No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Fable 5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Haiku 5.5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Opus 4.8 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Opus 5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Sonnet 4 No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- Claude-Haiku-3.5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Codestral Embed No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Command A No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Command R No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Command R 08-2024 No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Command R+ No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Command R+ 08-2024 No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Rerank 3.5 No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Rerank 4 Fast No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere Rerank 4 Pro No shared score covers this job yet
- Cohere: Command R No shared score covers this job yet
- Command A No shared score covers this job yet
- Command A+ No shared score covers this job yet
- Command R (08-2024) No shared score covers this job yet
- Command R+ (08-2024) No shared score covers this job yet
- Command R7B (12-2024) No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek OCR No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek Reasoner No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Pro No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (Thinking) No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek V4 Pro Cheaper No shared score covers this job yet
- DeepSeek-OCR No shared score covers this job yet
- deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Deepseek/DeepSeek-V3.2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite No shared score covers this job yet
- Doubao-Seed-2.0-mini No shared score covers this job yet
- Doubao-Seed-2.0-pro No shared score covers this job yet
- E5 Mistral 7B No shared score covers this job yet
- E5 Multi-Lingual Large Embeddings 0.6B No shared score covers this job yet
- Embed v4.0 No shared score covers this job yet
- ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B No shared score covers this job yet
- ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B No shared score covers this job yet
- ERNIE 5.0 No shared score covers this job yet
- ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- Extract No shared score covers this job yet
- Fugu Max No shared score covers this job yet
- Fugu Ultra No shared score covers this job yet
- Fugu Ultra v2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 1.5 Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 2.5 Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 2.5 Pro No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview High) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview Low) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini 3.8 Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini Embedding 001 No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini Embedding 2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini Flash-Lite Latest No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini Omni Flash Preview No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini-2.0-Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 2 27B No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 3 12B No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 3 4B No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 3n E2b It No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 4 31B (batch) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 4 31B (free) No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 4 31B IT TEE No shared score covers this job yet
- Gemma 4 E4B IT No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.5 No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.5 Air No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.5V Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.6 Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.6V No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.6V Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.6V Flash (Free) No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.6V Original No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.7 Flash (Free) No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 4.7 TEE No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5 Original No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5 Original Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5.1 Thinking TEE No shared score covers this job yet
- Glm 5.2 No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5.2 No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5.2 (free) No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5.2 TEE No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5.3 Prime No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM 5V Turbo Thinking No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM-4.6V-Flash No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM-4.7 No shared score covers this job yet
- GLM-5.2 No shared score covers this job yet
- Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite No shared score covers this job yet
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 No shared score covers this job yet
- GPT OSS 120B No shared score covers this job yet
And 240 more.
Automated from dated market data, not Enterprise DNA tested picks. Check the price and terms with the provider before you commit. Methodology: how the model numbers work.