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Best AI model for Customer Support (2026)

Replying to tickets and chats accurately. Ranked from 346 live models on the OpenRouter catalog, weighted for low latency, low cost, tool calling.

#ModelScoreIn / 1MOut / 1MContext
1 Auto Routeropenrouter/auto 400128 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 2,000,000 Try →
2 Pareto Code Routeropenrouter/pareto-code 400124 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 200,000 Try →
3 Body Builder (beta)openrouter/bodybuilder 400124 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 128,000 Try →
4 Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free 128 Free Free 262,144 Try →
5 Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)google/gemma-4-31b-it:free 128 Free Free 262,144 Try →
6 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen/qwen3.5-9b 128 $0.10 $0.15 262,144 Try →
7 Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it 127 $0.07 $0.35 262,144 Try →
8 Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle/gemma-4-31b-it 127 $0.13 $0.38 262,144 Try →
9 ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Minibytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini 127 $0.10 $0.40 262,144 Try →
10 Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flashqwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 127 $0.07 $0.26 1,000,000 Try →
11 ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flashbytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash 127 $0.07 $0.30 262,144 Try →
12 xAI: Grok 4.1 Fastx-ai/grok-4.1-fast 127 $0.20 $0.50 2,000,000 Try →
13 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 127 $0.10 $0.40 1,048,576 Try →
14 xAI: Grok 4 Fastx-ai/grok-4-fast 127 $0.20 $0.50 2,000,000 Try →
15 OpenAI: GPT-5 Nanoopenai/gpt-5-nano 127 $0.05 $0.40 400,000 Try →

How we ranked these

For Customer Support, we weight models on low latency, low cost, tool calling. Higher means better. Scores combine OpenRouter's model metadata (context length, modality support, tool calling, structured output, reasoning capability) with public pricing. See full methodology →

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