Best AI model for medicine & healthcare

Clinical and healthcare prompts. Not medical advice; check outputs. Ranked by Arena text / industry_medicine_and_healthcare, priced against live API rates. 45 models have a published score on this board.

Capability published 2026-10-22 · pricing retrieved 2026-10-25

Most capable
Gemini 4 Argon
Google
$4.00 / 1M blended
100% of leader strength
google/gemini-4-argon
Best value
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google
$1.66 / 1M blended
91% of leader strength · 59% cheaper
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Budget
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek
$0.07 / 1M blended
75% of leader strength · 98% cheaper
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
Best for agents
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google
$1.66 / 1M blended
91% of leader strength · 59% cheaper
google/gemini-3.8-flash

Top 25 models for medicine & healthcare

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 Gemini 4 Argon
google/gemini-4-argon
Google 1537 100% $4.001.048576M tools
2 Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Anthropic 1533 99% $20.001M tools
3 Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Anthropic 1526 97% $10.001M tools
4 Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Anthropic 1512 93% $8.001M tools
5 Gemini 3.8 Flash
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Google 1506 91% $1.661.048576M tools
6 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902
Qwen (Alibaba) 1503 90% $3.001M tools
7 Gemini 3.7 Flash
google/gemini-3.7-flash
Google 1495 88% $1.501.048576M tools
8 Kimi K3
moonshotai/kimi-k3
Moonshot AI 1488 86% $2.881.048576M tools
9 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
DeepSeek 1483 85% $0.271.048576M tools
10 GLM 5.3
z-ai/glm-5.3
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1482 84% $0.411.048576M tools
11 Claude Fable 5
anthropic/claude-fable-5
Anthropic 1480 84% $20.001M tools
12 GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1475 82% $0.241.048576M tools
13 GLM 5.2
z-ai/glm-5.2
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1475 82% $1.771.048576M tools
14 GLM 5.1
z-ai/glm-5.1
Z.ai (Zhipu) 1473 82% $2.15205K tools
15 Gemini 3.6 Flash
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Google 1469 81% $1.501.048576M tools
16 Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Anthropic 1467 80% $4.001M tools
17 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
DeepSeek 1465 80% $0.991.048576M tools
18 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
DeepSeek 1465 80% $0.261.048576M tools
19 Qwen3.7 Plus
qwen/qwen3.7-plus
Qwen (Alibaba) 1465 80% $0.561M tools
20 Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Anthropic 1464 79% $10.001M tools
21 Kimi K2.6
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Moonshot AI 1457 77% $1.34262K tools
22 Grok 4.20
x-ai/grok-4.20
xAI 1454 77% $1.562M tools
23 Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
x-ai/grok-4.20-multi-agent
xAI 1453 76% $1.562M —
24 Kimi K2.5
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
Moonshot AI 1448 75% $1.00262K tools
25 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
DeepSeek 1448 75% $0.071.048576M tools

Capability: Arena leaderboard dataset (CC-BY-4.0), Arena text / industry_medicine_and_healthcare, published 2026-10-22. 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 the probability it beats the board leader in a head-to-head human vote — 0.50 means a dead tie and is the best possible value.

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curl -s https://agentleaderboards.com/api/v1/route/medicine.json | jq .picks

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