Ranking

Best AI models for Agentic tool use

Calling functions and MCP tools correctly over many turns, following policies, researching answers with search tools, and running long tasks on its own.

Ranked models

Based on 2 benchmarks
Agentic tool use ranking
RankModelCompanyScoreCoverageReleased
1Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle DeepMind52.42 of 219 Feb 2026
2Gemini 3 Pro RetiredGoogle DeepMind52.22 of 218 Nov 2025
3Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic49.12 of 224 Nov 2025
4Gemini 3 FlashGoogle DeepMind49.02 of 217 Dec 2025
5Grok 4 RetiredSpaceXAI (xAI)45.52 of 29 Jul 2025
6Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle DeepMind43.12 of 225 Mar 2025
7GPT-5 DeprecatedOpenAI41.22 of 27 Aug 2025
8Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic38.42 of 215 Oct 2025
9DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek35.02 of 220 Jan 2025

Not ranked yet

These models have independent or third-party results on too few of the 2 benchmarks to rank.

Agentic tool use: not ranked yet
ModelCompanyCoverageReleased
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI1 of 23 Sep 2026
Claude Opus 5Anthropic1 of 224 Jul 2026
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI1 of 29 Jul 2026
Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic1 of 25 Feb 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic1 of 217 Feb 2026
GPT-5.5OpenAI1 of 223 Apr 2026
GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI1 of 29 Jul 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic1 of 229 Sep 2025
Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic1 of 228 May 2026
Claude Opus 4.1 RetiredAnthropic1 of 25 Aug 2025
Claude Opus 4 RetiredAnthropic1 of 222 May 2025
Claude Sonnet 4 RetiredAnthropic1 of 222 May 2025
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI1 of 29 Jul 2026
o3 DeprecatedOpenAI1 of 216 Apr 2025
Claude 3.7 Sonnet RetiredAnthropic1 of 224 Feb 2025
GPT-5.1OpenAI1 of 212 Nov 2025
GPT-5.2OpenAI1 of 211 Dec 2025
Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle DeepMind1 of 23 Mar 2026
GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI1 of 217 Mar 2026
GPT-5.4OpenAI1 of 25 Mar 2026
Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle DeepMind1 of 217 Apr 2025
Claude 3.5 Sonnet RetiredAnthropic1 of 220 Jun 2024
GPT-4oOpenAI1 of 213 May 2024
Grok 3 RetiredSpaceXAI (xAI)1 of 217 Feb 2025
Reka Flash 3Reka AI1 of 211 Mar 2025
Llama 3.1 70BMeta1 of 223 Jul 2024
Llama 3.2 90B VisionMeta1 of 225 Sep 2024
Llama 3.3 70BMeta1 of 26 Dec 2024
Gemini 1.5 Pro RetiredGoogle DeepMind1 of 215 Feb 2024
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32BDeepSeek1 of 220 Jan 2025
Claude 3.5 Haiku RetiredAnthropic1 of 24 Nov 2024
Mistral NeMo 12B RetiredMistral AI1 of 218 Jul 2024
GPT-4o miniOpenAI1 of 218 Jul 2024
Llama 3.2 11B VisionMeta1 of 225 Sep 2024
Qwen2.5-72B-InstructAlibaba Group1 of 219 Sep 2024
Llama 3.1 8BMeta1 of 223 Jul 2024
Gemini 1.5 Flash RetiredGoogle DeepMind1 of 214 May 2024
Qwen2-VL-72B-InstructAlibaba Group1 of 219 Sep 2024
Phi-4Microsoft1 of 212 Dec 2024
Llama 3.2 3BMeta1 of 225 Sep 2024
Qwen2.5-7B-InstructAlibaba Group1 of 219 Sep 2024
Llama 3.2 1BMeta1 of 225 Sep 2024
Qwen2-VL-7B-InstructAlibaba Group1 of 230 Aug 2024