Best AI model for tool-call reliability

How rarely the model hallucinates or misuses tool calls during agent runs. Higher is better. Ranked by Arena agent_tool_hallucination, priced against live API rates. 28 models have a published score on this board.

Capability published 2026-10-23 · pricing retrieved 2026-10-25

Most capable
GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI
$4.00 / 1M blended
100% of leader strength
openai/gpt-6.1-sol
Best value
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI
$0.20 / 1M blended
92% of leader strength · 95% cheaper
openai/gpt-6-luna
Budget
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI
$0.20 / 1M blended
92% of leader strength · 95% cheaper
openai/gpt-6-luna
Best for agents
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI
$0.20 / 1M blended
92% of leader strength · 95% cheaper
openai/gpt-6-luna

Top 25 models for tool-call reliability

Rows marked frontier are Pareto-optimal — nothing we track is both stronger and cheaper. "Strength" rescales the board so 100% = parity with the leader.

#ModelProviderScoreStrength$/1MContextTools
1 GPT-6.1 Sol
openai/gpt-6.1-sol
OpenAI 0.0075 100% $4.001.05M tools
2 Kimi K3
moonshotai/kimi-k3
Moonshot AI 0.0075 100% $2.881.048576M tools
3 GLM 5.2
z-ai/glm-5.2
Z.ai (Zhipu) 0.0073 97% $1.771.048576M tools
4 GPT-6 Astra
openai/gpt-6-astra
OpenAI 0.0071 95% $20.001.05M tools
5 GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Z.ai (Zhipu) 0.0070 93% $0.241.048576M tools
6 GLM 5.3
z-ai/glm-5.3
Z.ai (Zhipu) 0.0070 93% $0.411.048576M tools
7 Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Anthropic 0.0070 93% $10.001M tools
8 GPT-6 Luna
openai/gpt-6-luna
OpenAI 0.0069 92% $0.201.05M tools
9 Grok 4.7
x-ai/grok-4.7
xAI 0.0068 91% $3.00500K tools
10 Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Anthropic 0.0065 87% $4.001M tools
11 GPT-6 Sol
openai/gpt-6-sol
OpenAI 0.0064 85% $4.001.05M tools
12 Claude Fable 5
anthropic/claude-fable-5
Anthropic 0.0064 85% $20.001M tools
13 Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Anthropic 0.0061 81% $20.001M tools
14 Grok 4.6
x-ai/grok-4.6
xAI 0.0061 81% $3.00500K tools
15 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
DeepSeek 0.0059 79% $0.991.048576M tools
16 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
DeepSeek 0.0059 79% $0.261.048576M tools
17 Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Anthropic 0.0057 76% $8.001M tools
18 Gemini 3.8 Flash
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Google 0.0056 75% $1.661.048576M tools
19 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
DeepSeek 0.0055 73% $0.271.048576M tools
20 Gemini 3.7 Flash
google/gemini-3.7-flash
Google 0.0048 64% $1.501.048576M tools
21 Claude Sonnet 5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
Anthropic 0.0045 60% $4.001M tools
22 Gemini 4 Argon
google/gemini-4-argon
Google 0.0035 47% $4.001.048576M tools
23 Qwen3.8 27B
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Qwen (Alibaba) -0.0008 -11% $0.781M tools
24 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902
Qwen (Alibaba) -0.0083 -111% $3.001M tools
25 Claude Haiku 5.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
Anthropic -0.0089 -119% $0.201M tools

Capability: Arena leaderboard dataset (CC-BY-4.0), Arena agent_tool_hallucination, published 2026-10-23. Pricing: OpenRouter, retrieved 2026-10-25. (input x 3 + output x 1) / 4.

What this measures: Human pairwise preference votes. Measures perceived answer quality on this category, not correctness on a fixed test set. For each model this is its score as a share of the board leader's score — 1.0 means parity.

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