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Best LLMs for Marketing (2026)

Top language models for marketing copy, ad creative, email, social posts, and brand-voice content. Ranked by Chatbot Arena human-preference scores with MMLU as a fallback.

#ModelInput $/1MOutput $/1M
1o3
Reasoning

Arena: 1412

$1.00$4.00
2Grok-3
ReasoningVisionTools

Arena: 1405

$0.80$2.40
3Gemini 2.5 Pro
VisionTools

Arena: 1398

$1.25$10.00
4o1 (12-17)
Reasoning

Arena: 1385

$15.00$60.00
5DeepSeek R1
Reasoning

Arena: 1372

$0.10$0.30
6Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct

Arena: 1365

$0.20$0.60
7o3 Mini
ReasoningTools

Arena: 1335

$1.10$4.40
8Gemini 2.5 Flash
VisionTools

Arena: 1320

$0.15$0.60
9GPT-4o
VisionTools

Arena: 1315

$2.50$10.00
10DeepSeek V3
Tools

Arena: 1302

$0.10$0.28
11Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct

Arena: 1295

$0.15$0.45
12Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental

Arena: 1285

13Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct

Arena: 1270

$0.12$0.28
14Mistral Large 2
VisionTools

Arena: 1265

$0.48$1.50
15Grok-2
Reasoning

Arena: 1255

$0.50$0.50
16GPT-4 Turbo
VisionTools

Arena: 1242

$5.00$15.00
17GPT-4o-mini

Arena: 1235

$0.15$0.60
18Llama 3.1 405B

Arena: 1228

19Gemini 1.5 Pro

Arena: 1220

$1.25$5.00
20Command R+

Arena: 1210

$2.50$10.00