Best AI Search Models
20 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.
All uses💬 Chat 285🖼️ Image 54💻 Code 26🎬 Video 22🔍 Search 20🧮 Reasoning 19👁️ Vision 12🎙️ Audio 4🛡️ Safety 2
All orgsopenai 75qwen 50google 47anthropic 24mistralai 20deepseek 15z-ai 14nvidia 10xai 10meta-llama 10minimax 9moonshotai 8
| # | Model | Use | Search Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gpt-5.6-sol-xhighopenai | 🔍 Search | 1257 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | claude-opus-4-6-searchanthropic | 🔍 Search | 1253 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | gpt-5.5-searchopenai | 🔍 Search | 1242 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | ernie-5.1baidu | 🔍 Search | 1227 | — / — | — | — | — | 3mo |
| 5 | claude-sonnet-4-6-searchanthropic | 🔍 Search | 1221 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | gemini-3.1-pro-groundinggoogle | 🔍 Search | 1211 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | gemini-3-pro-groundinggoogle | 🔍 Search | 1207 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | gpt-5.2-searchopenai | 🔍 Search | 1207 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta-0309xai | 🔍 Search | 1204 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | gpt-5.2-search-non-reasoningopenai | 🔍 Search | 1172 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Sonar Properplexity | 🔍 Search | — | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200K | — | 1 | 19mo |
| 12 | Sonar Reasoning Properplexity | 🔍 Search | — | $2.00 / $8.00 | 128K | — | — | 19mo |
| 13 | Sonar Pro Searchperplexity | 🔍 Search | — | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200K | — | — | 9mo |
| 14 | o3 Deep Researchopenai | 🔍 Search | — | $10.00 / $40.00 | 200K | — | — | 10mo |
| 15 | GPT-4o-mini Search Previewopenai | 🔍 Search | — | $0.15 / $0.60 | 128K | — | — | 17mo |
| 16 | GPT-4o Search Previewopenai | 🔍 Search | — | $2.50 / $10.00 | 128K | — | — | 17mo |
| 17 | o4 Mini Deep Researchopenai | 🔍 Search | — | $2.00 / $8.00 | 200K | — | — | 10mo |
| 18 | Relace Searchrelace | 🔍 Search | — | $1.00 / $3.00 | 256K | — | — | 8mo |
| 19 | Sonar Deep Researchperplexity | 🔍 Search | — | $2.00 / $8.00 | 128K | — | — | 18mo |
| 20 | Sonarperplexity | 🔍 Search | — | $1.00 / $1.00 | 127K | — | 1 | 19mo |
Elo: LMArena per-category arenas (CC-BY) — image/video/search models are ranked by their own arena, not text. Pricing: OpenRouter/LiteLLM. Use-case labels are auto-classified — suggest fixes on any model page. Methodology.