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Best Reasoning Models in October 2026
As of October 2026, GPT-6 Astra leads the Noometry Index with a score of 70.8, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 69.0.
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Models that think step by step before answering (extended thinking or reasoning effort settings).
- GPT-6 Astra 70.8
- Claude Fable 5.1 69.0
- Claude Opus 5.5 68.6
- Claude Opus 5 67.8
- Claude Fable 5 66.8
- GPT-6.1 Sol 65.6
- GPT-5.6 Sol 65.0
- GPT-5.5 Pro 64.3
- GPT-5.5 63.4
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 61.9
Full ranking
161 models
| 1 | OpenAI GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 70.8 | $10 | $50 | 3.54 | — |
| 2 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 69.0 | $10 | $50 | 3.45 | — |
| 3 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 68.6 | $4 | $20 | 8.57 | — |
| 4 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 67.8 | $5 | $25 | 6.78 | — |
| 5 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 66.8 | $10 | $50 | 3.34 | 25 |
| 6 | OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 65.6 | $2 | $10 | 16.4 | — |
| 7 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 65.0 | $4 | $20 | 8.12 | 10 |
| 8 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 Pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 64.3 | $30 | $180 | 0.95 | — |
| 9 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 63.4 | $5 | $30 | 5.63 | 25 |
| 10 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 61.9 | $2 | $10 | 15.5 | — |
| 11 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 61.8 | $0.75 | $3.75 | 41.2 | — | ||
| 12 | OpenAI GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 61.8 | $2 | $10 | 15.4 | — |
| 13 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 60.7 | $5 | $25 | 6.07 | 34 |
| 14 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 59.8 | $0.75 | $3.75 | 39.9 | — | ||
| 15 | Moonshot AI Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | Open | 1.05M | 59.5 | $3 | $15 | 9.92 | — |
| 16 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 59.4 | $2.50 | $15 | 10.6 | 12 |
| 17 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 59.2 | $2 | $12 | 13.1 | 11 |
| 18 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 Pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 58.9 | $30 | $180 | 0.87 | — |
| 19 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 58.3 | $5 | $25 | 5.83 | 33 |
| 20 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 58.2 | $5 | $25 | 5.82 | 19 |
| 21 | xAI Grok 4.6 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 56.9 | $2 | $6 | 19 | — |
| 22 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 56.8 | $2 | $6 | 18.9 | — | |
| 23 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 56.7 | $2 | $12 | 12.6 | — | ||
| 24 | xAI Grok 4.5 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 55.0 | $2 | $6 | 18.3 | 4 |
| 25 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 54.8 | $1.40 | $4.40 | 25.5 | — |
| 26 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 54.8 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 27.4 | — | |
| 27 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 54.6 | $2 | $10 | 13.7 | — |
| 28 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 54.6 | $0.20 | $1.20 | 121 | 12 |
| 29 | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 54.3 | $0.66 | $1.98 | 54.9 | 16 | |
| 30 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 54.2 | $1.50 | $9 | 16.1 | — | ||
| 31 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 54.1 | $0.75 | $3.75 | 36.1 | — | ||
| 32 | OpenAI GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 54.1 | $1.75 | $14 | 11.2 | 15 |
| 33 | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 53.6 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 204 | 6 | |
| 34 | OpenAI GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 53.3 | $0.10 | $0.50 | 266 | — |
| 35 | xAI Grok 4.7 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 53.1 | $2 | $6 | 17.7 | — |
| 36 | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 52.8 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 201 | — | |
| 37 | OpenAI GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 52.3 | $21 | $168 | 0.91 | — |
| 38 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 52.3 | $0.50 | $3 | 46.5 | — | ||
| 39 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 51.8 | $0.15 | $0.50 | 218 | — |
| 40 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 51.5 | $2.50 | $7.50 | 13.7 | — | |
| 41 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 262K | 51.5 | $1.30 | $7.80 | 17.6 | — | |
| 42 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.2 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 51.1 | $1.40 | $4.40 | 23.8 | 23 |
| 43 | OpenAI GPT-5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 50.9 | $1.25 | $10 | 14.8 | 2 |
| 44 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 50.5 | $5 | $25 | 5.05 | 13 |
| 45 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 50.3 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 25.2 | — | |
| 46 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 50.3 | $0.43 | $0.87 | 92.5 | — |
| 47 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 50.3 | $3 | $15 | 8.38 | — |
| 48 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 49.9 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 25 | — | |
| 49 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 49.5 | $0.10 | $0.50 | 247 | — |
| 50 | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 49.0 | $1.25 | $10 | 14.3 | — |
| 51 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 48.5 | $0.14 | $0.28 | 277 | — |
| 52 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 48.1 | $0.45 | $2.25 | 53.4 | 66 |
| 53 | StepFun | Proprietary | 1.02M | 47.9 | $1 | $2.70 | 33.6 | — | |
| 54 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 200K | 47.8 | $1.40 | $4.40 | 22.2 | — |
| 55 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 47.7 | $0.95 | $4 | 27.8 | — |
| 56 | OpenAI o3 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 47.5 | $2 | $8 | 13.6 | 3 |
| 57 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 47.5 | $0.50 | $3 | 42.2 | — | |
| 58 | Thinking Machines Lab Inkling-Small | Thinking Machines Lab | Open | 524K | 46.5 | $0.45 | $1.20 | 72.9 | — |
| 59 | OpenAI GPT-5 Pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 46.4 | $15 | $120 | 1.12 | 5 |
| 60 | xAI Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 46.2 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 29.6 | — |
| 61 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 46.1 | $1 | $3.20 | 29.7 | 23 |
| 62 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 46.0 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 34.1 | 9 | |
| 63 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 46.0 | $0.99 | $1.49 | 41.2 | — | |
| 64 | OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 45.8 | $1.75 | $14 | 9.52 | — |
| 65 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 45.3 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 64.8 | — | |
| 66 | Tencent | Open | 1.05M | 45.3 | $0.75 | $2.25 | 40.2 | — | |
| 67 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 45.2 | $0.43 | $0.87 | 83.2 | — |
| 68 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 45.0 | $1.25 | $10 | 13.1 | 5 | ||
| 69 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 45.0 | $0.75 | $4.50 | 26.6 | 10 |
| 70 | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 44.3 | $0.26 | $0.38 | 153 | 16 | |
| 71 | Tencent | Open | 262K | 44.2 | $0.0825 | $0.33 | 306 | — | |
| 72 | Thinking Machines Lab Inkling | Thinking Machines Lab | Open | 66K | 44.1 | $1.87 | $4.68 | 17.1 | — |
| 73 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 44.1 | $3 | $15 | 7.35 | 85 |
| 74 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5V-Turbo | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Proprietary | 200K | 43.8 | $1.20 | $4 | 23 | — |
| 75 | MiniMax | Open | 1M | 43.8 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 83.4 | — | |
| 76 | xAI Grok 4.3 | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 43.8 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 28 | — |
| 77 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Omni | Xiaomi | Proprietary | 262K | 43.6 | $0.14 | $0.28 | 249 | — |
| 78 | Open | 262K | 43.5 | $0.09 | $0.34 | 286 | 3 | ||
| 79 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 43.5 | $0.70 | $2.80 | 35.5 | 85 | |
| 80 | Open | 262K | 43.5 | $0.0675 | $0.23 | 407 | — | ||
| 81 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 43.4 | $0.14 | $0.28 | 248 | — |
| 82 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 43.3 | $0.95 | $4 | 25.3 | — |
| 83 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 43.2 | $0.70 | $2.80 | 35.3 | — | |
| 84 | ByteDance Seed | Proprietary | 256K | 43.2 | $0.50 | $3 | 38.4 | — | |
| 85 | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 43.1 | $0.27 | $1 | 95.4 | 30 | |
| 86 | Mistral AI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 43.1 | $0.68 | $2.09 | 41.7 | — | |
| 87 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 43.1 | $15 | $75 | 1.44 | 29 |
| 88 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro | Xiaomi | Proprietary | 1.05M | 43.0 | $0.43 | $0.87 | 79 | — |
| 89 | OpenAI o3-pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 42.9 | $20 | $80 | 1.23 | 1 |
| 90 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 42.9 | $0.40 | $2.40 | 47.6 | — | |
| 91 | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 42.8 | $0.25 | $0.95 | 101 | 328 | |
| 92 | OpenAI GPT-5.2 Codex | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 42.6 | $1.75 | $14 | 8.84 | — |
| 93 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 42.5 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 243 | — | |
| 94 | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 42.5 | $0.50 | $2.20 | 45.9 | — | |
| 95 | DeepSeek | Proprietary | 164K | 42.3 | $0.50 | $2.15 | 46.4 | 10 | |
| 96 | StepFun | Open | 256K | 42.3 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 282 | — | |
| 97 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 42.2 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 31.3 | — | |
| 98 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 42.1 | $0.40 | $3.20 | 38.3 | — | |
| 99 | Upstage | Proprietary | 524K | 42.1 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 80.2 | — | |
| 100 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 131K | 42.0 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 42 | 32 |
| 101 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 42.0 | $0.25 | $2 | 61 | — | |
| 102 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 42.0 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 42 | — |
| 103 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 41.9 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 90.6 | 19 |
| 104 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 41.9 | $0.30 | $2.40 | 50.7 | — | |
| 105 | OpenAI GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 41.8 | $0.25 | $2 | 60.9 | 3 |
| 106 | OpenAI o4-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 41.6 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 21.6 | 6 |
| 107 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 41.5 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 48.8 | — | ||
| 108 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 41.4 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 41.4 | 12 |
| 109 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 128K | 41.3 | $0.30 | $0.90 | 91.8 | — |
| 110 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash | Xiaomi | Open | 262K | 41.3 | $0.14 | $0.28 | 236 | — |
| 111 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 41.2 | $0.57 | $2.30 | 41.1 | 201 |
| 112 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 41.0 | $15 | $75 | 1.37 | — |
| 113 | OpenAI o1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 40.9 | $15 | $60 | 1.56 | — |
| 114 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 40.8 | $0.25 | $1.50 | 72.5 | 10 | ||
| 115 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 40.8 | $3 | $15 | 6.79 | 31 |
| 116 | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 40.6 | $0.05 | $0.20 | 464 | — | |
| 117 | IBM Granite 4.2 8B | IBM | Open | 131K | 40.5 | $0.06 | $0.25 | 377 | — |
| 118 | MiniMax | Open | 1M | 40.3 | $0.55 | $2.20 | 41.9 | — | |
| 119 | NVIDIA | Open | 131K | 40.3 | $0.40 | $0.40 | 101 | — | |
| 120 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 40.2 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 13.4 | 50 | |
| 121 | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 40.1 | $0.08 | $0.45 | 233 | — | |
| 122 | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 40.0 | $0.05 | $0.20 | 457 | — | |
| 123 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 39.9 | $0.03 | $0.13 | 726 | — | |
| 124 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 64K | 39.8 | $0.60 | $1.80 | 44.2 | 34 |
| 125 | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | Amazon | Proprietary | 1M | 39.7 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 46.7 | — |
| 126 | DeepSeek | Open | 128K | 39.7 | $0.58 | $1.68 | 46.4 | — | |
| 127 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 39.5 | $1 | $5 | 19.8 | — |
| 128 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 39.3 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 46.2 | 152 | ||
| 129 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 39.2 | $0.70 | $2.80 | 32 | 86 | |
| 130 | Inception Mercury 2 | Inception | Proprietary | 128K | 39.1 | $0.25 | $0.75 | 104 | — |
| 131 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5-Air | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 131K | 38.9 | $0.20 | $1.10 | 91.6 | 160 |
| 132 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 38.9 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 74.2 | — | |
| 133 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 41K | 38.9 | $0.12 | $0.50 | 181 | 42 | |
| 134 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 200K | 38.8 | $0.06 | $0.40 | 268 | — |
| 135 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 38.8 | $0.19 | $1.13 | 91.9 | — | |
| 136 | Arcee AI | Open | 262K | 38.6 | $0.25 | $0.80 | 99.7 | — | |
| 137 | OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 38.6 | $1.25 | $10 | 11.2 | — |
| 138 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 38.3 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 73 | 49 | |
| 139 | OpenAI GPT-5-Codex | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 37.9 | $1.25 | $10 | 11 | 95 |
| 140 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 37.7 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 71.9 | — | |
| 141 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 37.6 | $0.25 | $1.49 | 67.5 | — | |
| 142 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 37.4 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 71.2 | 17 | |
| 143 | StepFun | Open | 256K | 37.3 | $0.18 | $1.11 | 89.6 | — | |
| 144 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 37.1 | $0.40 | $1.20 | 61.8 | 37 | |
| 145 | Proprietary | 1.05M | 37.0 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 211 | 172 | ||
| 146 | OpenAI o3-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 36.7 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 19.1 | — |
| 147 | xAI Grok Build 0.1 | xAI | Proprietary | 256K | 36.4 | $1 | $2 | 29.1 | — |
| 148 | OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | Open | 131K | 36.3 | $0.037 | $0.17 | 517 | 55 |
| 149 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 36.3 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 12.1 | 68 | |
| 150 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 35.5 | $0.35 | $1.40 | 57.9 | 79 | |
| 151 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 35.2 | $2 | $5 | 12.8 | 0 | |
| 152 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 33.8 | $0.10 | $0.15 | 300 | — | |
| 153 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 33.7 | $0.18 | $0.70 | 109 | — | |
| 154 | OpenAI GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 33.5 | $0.05 | $0.40 | 244 | 4 |
| 155 | Inception Mercury 2.5 | Inception | Proprietary | 260K | 33.5 | $0.04 | $0.15 | 496 | — |
| 156 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 33.4 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 127 | 120 | |
| 157 | OpenAI gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | Open | 131K | 32.5 | $0.018 | $0.09 | 903 | 96 |
| 158 | Poolside | Open | 262K | 32.5 | — | — | — | — | |
| 159 | OpenAI o1-pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 31.5 | $150 | $600 | 0.12 | — |
| 160 | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 30.2 | $0.50 | $1.50 | 40.3 | 0 | |
| 161 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 27.1 | $0.05 | $0.20 | 310 | — |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best thinking model?
As of October 2026, GPT-6 Astra leads the Noometry Index with a score of 70.8, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 69.0.
What are the top 5 in this ranking?
GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable 5, in that order, as of October 2026.
How is this list ranked?
By the Noometry Index, which is fitted from every public benchmark result and adjusted for how hard each benchmark is. Models need several independent results to be ranked.