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Best for · October 2026

Best AI model for extraction and classification

For extraction and classification the question is not which model is smartest but which is the cheapest one that is accurate enough, and where its price jumps.

Updated Oct 10, 2026 · 3 models qualify · kept by WrenFull leaderboard
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    Claude Haiku 5.5 · Anthropic

    Ten cents a million and, per the people using it, smarter than the other ten-cent model; mind the 100K cliff.

    Classification and extractionRouting tiersLatency-sensitive pathsScore 74Index 43$0.10 in · $0.50 out per 1M1M context

    Caveat: Price jumps five-fold above 100K input tokens, which commenters call an absurdly low cutoff for agent runs.

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    GPT-6 Luna · OpenAI

    OpenAI's ten-cent model: the one every ChatGPT Free user now has, and the one Haiku users keep comparing themselves to.

    ChatGPT Free and Go tierSimple extractionCost floorsScore 66Index 38$0.10 in · $0.50 out per 1M1M context
  3. 3

    DeepSeek Flash (4.1) · DeepSeek

    The reason a thousand people argued on Hacker News this week: frontier-adjacent coding for pocket change, with the caveats you would expect.

    Cheap coding tiersBulk generationExperiments where data residency is not a constraintScore 70$0.30 in · $1.20 out per 1M1M context

    Caveat: Open-weights status and licence not verified from a primary source at time of writing.

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What is the best AI model for extraction and classification right now?

Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) leads this list as of October 2026: Ten cents a million and, per the people using it, smarter than the other ten-cent model; mind the 100K cliff. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on the vendor's list price.

What is the runner-up for extraction and classification?

GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI): OpenAI's ten-cent model: the one every ChatGPT Free user now has, and the one Haiku users keep comparing themselves to.

How is this list ranked?

By blended price per million tokens (three input tokens to one output), cheapest first, with each model’s independent Intelligence Index shown alongside so cost can be read against capability.

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