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How this page ranks
- Ranked by the Intelligence Index (Artificial Analysis, through OpenRouter), highest first. Ties go to the lower blended price.
- A model counts for this job when its taxonomy v2 classification names search and research, or its old category maps to it.
- Each model must list text output 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). Score: Artificial Analysis, through OpenRouter (third-party).
Ranked: 7 of 63 models
Cheapest for search and research →| # | Model | Intelligence Index | Score date | Blended / 1M | Price date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Grok 4.7xAI | 35.5 | 10 Nov 2026 | $3.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 2 |  Kimi K2.6Accounts | 27.0 | 26 Oct 2026 | $1.34 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 3 | Grok 4.20xAI | 25.7 | 26 Oct 2026 | $1.56 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 4 |  Pro/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2Pro | 21.5 | 26 Oct 2026 | $0.290 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 5 |  Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | 11.8 | 26 Oct 2026 | $3.50 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 6 | SonarPerplexity | 7.7 | 26 Oct 2026 | $1.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 7 | Sonar ProPerplexity | 7.6 | 26 Oct 2026 | $6.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
Not ranked, and why (56)
No confirmed score in the market tables in the last 30 days 56
- AionLabs: Aion-1.0 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- BGE Reranker Base No confirmed Intelligence Index
- BGE Small EN v1.5 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Free) No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Codestral Embed No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere Command R No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere Command R 08-2024 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere Rerank 3.5 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere Rerank 4 Fast No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere Rerank 4 Pro No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Cohere: Command R No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Command R+ (08-2024) No confirmed Intelligence Index
- deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- E5 Mistral 7B No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Embed v4.0 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Fusion No confirmed Intelligence Index
- GPT-4o Search Preview No confirmed Intelligence Index
- GPT-4o-mini Search Preview No confirmed Intelligence Index
- GPT-5.3 Chat No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4 Fast No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.1 Fast No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Beta Non-Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Beta Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Multi Agent Beta No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.20 Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok-4-Fast-Non-Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Grok-4-Fast-Reasoning No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2 Thinking Original No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Original No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2.5 Thinking No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2.5 Thinking TEE No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2.6 Fast No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2.6 Thinking No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Kimi K2.6 Turbo No confirmed Intelligence Index
- kimi-k2-thinking No confirmed Intelligence Index
- llama-3_2-nemoretriever-300m-embed-v1 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- llama-nemotron-rerank-vl-1b-v2 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Mistral Embed No confirmed Intelligence Index
- MM Poly 8B No confirmed Intelligence Index
- nv-embed-v1 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- o3 Deep Research No confirmed Intelligence Index
- o4 Mini Deep Research No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Reranker 4B No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Qwen3.7 Flash No confirmed Intelligence Index
- rerank-qa-mistral-4b No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Sonar Deep Research No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Sonar Pro Search No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Voyage Rerank 2.5 No confirmed Intelligence Index
- Voyage Rerank 2.5 Lite No confirmed Intelligence Index
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.