Which AI should I use for reading?

Summarize a 50-page research paper, and tasks like it, ranked by this site's own recorded cost, speed, and accuracy, blended equally. Not one hand-picked answer: the top 3, and why each one placed where it did.

Primary choice for reading
MiniMax M3MiniMax

MiniMax M3 is the best overall blend of cost, speed, and accuracy for this task: 88% accurate, 2.3 s to run, $0.00.

$ 100 ⚡ 99 ✓ 88 Race this →
Secondary choice for reading
Gemma 4 31BGoogle

Gemma 4 31B is close behind — the cheapest of the three here: 77% accurate, 3.7 s to run, $0.00.

$ 100 ⚡ 95 ✓ 77 Race this →
Third choice for reading
Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is close behind — the cheapest of the three here: 78% accurate, 3.5 s to run, $0.00.

$ 100 ⚡ 95 ✓ 78 Race this →
Race the primary choice yourself
MiniMax M3 on “summarize a 50-page research paper”: see the time, cost, and accuracy live
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Beyond what we measure

These get talked about a lot for this category, but we haven’t run them through our own tests yet, so we won’t rank them next to a model we’ve actually measured. Worth knowing exists, not a recommendation.

DeepSeek-R1GPT-4o Minio1 (Pro)

Every pick above is backed by this site’s own recorded runs against the live Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Google, Z-AI, NVIDIA, and MiniMax APIs; never a marketing number. How we measure → · Full model comparison → · New models →