Deep analysis
Claude, GPT, and Gemini frontier models are strongest for long documents, synthesis, and structured analysis.
Research Guide
Best AI model for research
For research, choose models that combine source handling, long context, careful reasoning, low hallucination risk, and explainable citations.
Web research
Perplexity Sonar is useful when live-source discovery and answer citations are part of the product experience.
Budget research
Gemini Flash, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral models can reduce costs for extraction and first-pass summarization.