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Best AI model for Sales / Cold Email (2026)
Personalized outbound that doesn't read as AI. Ranked from 346 live models on the OpenRouter catalog, weighted for low cost, reasoning quality.
| # | Model | Score | In / 1M | Out / 1M | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auto Routeropenrouter/auto | 400116 | $-1000000.00 | $-1000000.00 | 2,000,000 | Try → |
| 2 | Pareto Code Routeropenrouter/pareto-code | 400112 | $-1000000.00 | $-1000000.00 | 200,000 | Try → |
| 3 | Body Builder (beta)openrouter/bodybuilder | 400112 | $-1000000.00 | $-1000000.00 | 128,000 | Try → |
| 4 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free | 116 | Free | Free | 262,144 | Try → |
| 5 | Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)google/gemma-4-31b-it:free | 116 | Free | Free | 262,144 | Try → |
| 6 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen/qwen3.5-9b | 116 | $0.10 | $0.15 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 7 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | 115 | $0.07 | $0.35 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 8 | Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle/gemma-4-31b-it | 115 | $0.13 | $0.38 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 9 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Minibytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini | 115 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 10 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flashqwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 | 115 | $0.07 | $0.26 | 1,000,000 | Try → |
| 11 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flashbytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash | 115 | $0.07 | $0.30 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 12 | xAI: Grok 4.1 Fastx-ai/grok-4.1-fast | 115 | $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 | 115 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1,048,576 | Try → |
| 14 | xAI: Grok 4 Fastx-ai/grok-4-fast | 115 | $0.20 | $0.50 | 2,000,000 | Try → |
| 15 | OpenAI: GPT-5 Nanoopenai/gpt-5-nano | 115 | $0.05 | $0.40 | 400,000 | Try → |
How we ranked these
For Sales / Cold Email, we weight models on low cost, reasoning quality. 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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