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Best Model for RAG Q&A With Citations

Find the best model for grounded Q&A with citations from internal knowledge bases.

#1 Recommendation

gemini-3-pro-preview

Strong on BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval overall_score_pct (100%) and FACTS Benchmark Suite facts_grounding_score_pct (88%)

external/google/gemini-3-pro-preview

41.9%

Score

54.3%

Confidence

29

Evidence

Runners-up:#2 gemini-2.5-pro (37.5%)#3 anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (31.4%)#4 Grok-4-0709 (27.5%)

Ranked Models

30

Evidence Quality

84%

Scoring

Benchmark-backed

Top Signal

BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval: overall_score_pct

All Ranked Models

Max params:
Min confidence:
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RankModelScore
#1gemini-3-pro-preview

Strong on BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval overall_score_pct (100%) and FACTS Benchmark Suite facts_grounding_score_pct (88%)

41.9%
#2gemini-2.5-pro

Strong on FACTS Benchmark Suite facts_grounding_score_pct (100%) and BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval overall_score_pct (75%)

37.5%
#3anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

Strong on Vals Finance Agent overall_accuracy_pct (100%) and Vals Finance Agent complex_retrieval_accuracy_pct (91%)

31.4%
#4Grok-4-0709
27.5%
#5gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
24.7%
#6gpt-5-2025-08-07
23.3%
#7google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview
22.3%
#8openai/gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
22.2%
#9gpt-4.1-20250414
22.1%
#10gemini-2.5-flash
20.3%
#11claude-opus-4-5-20251101
20.0%
#12claude-sonnet-4-20250514
19.3%
#13gpt-5.1-2025-11-13
19.2%
#14google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
18.8%
#15gemini-3-flash-preview
17.1%
#16xai-org/grok-4-fast-reasoning
17.1%
#17gpt-5.2-2025-12-11
16.7%
#18anthropic/claude-opus-4-6-thinking
16.3%
#19xai-org/grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
16.1%
#20kimi/kimi-k2.5-thinking
16.1%
#21anthropic/claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking
15.0%
#22anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-thinking
14.2%
#24grok/grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
13.5%
#25mistralai/mistral-large-2512
13.1%
#27x-ai/grok-3
12.9%
#28zai/glm-5-thinking
12.8%
#29anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-thinking
12.6%
#30xai-org/grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
12.5%
#31alibaba/qwen3.5-flash
12.4%
#32anthropic/claude-opus-4-1-20250805
12.3%

Head-to-Head: #1 vs #2

#1

Top Pick

gemini-3-pro-preview

Strong on BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval overall_score_pct (100%) and FACTS Benchmark Suite facts_grounding_score_pct (88%)

41.9%

Conf 54.3%

#2

gemini-2.5-pro

Strong on FACTS Benchmark Suite facts_grounding_score_pct (100%) and BasedAGI KB Q&A Eval overall_score_pct (75%)

37.5%

Conf 56.4%

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