Best LLMs for Legal 2026 | Legal AI Model Rankings

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xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast

xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast

by xAI

2M tokens

Grok 4.1 Fast is xAI's best agentic tool calling model that shines in real-world use cases like customer support and deep research. 2M context window. Reasoning can be enabled/disabled using the `reasoning` `enabled` parameter in the API. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#controlling-reasoning-tokens)

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Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

by Qwen

262.14K tokens

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is a multilingual, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model based on the Qwen3-235B architecture, with 22B active parameters per forward pass. It is optimized for general-purpose text generation, including instruction following, logical reasoning, math, code, and tool usage. The model supports a native 262K context length and does not implement "thinking mode" (<think> blocks). Compared to its base variant, this version delivers significant gains in knowledge coverage, long-context reasoning, coding benchmarks, and alignment with open-ended tasks. It is particularly strong on multilingual understanding, math reasoning (e.g., AIME, HMMT), and alignment evaluations like Arena-Hard and WritingBench.

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Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

by Google

1.05M tokens

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool use performance with substantially lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well suited for interactive development, long running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks. Compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash, it provides broad quality improvements across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability. The model supports a 1M token context window and multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, with text output. It includes configurable reasoning via thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high), structured output, tool use, and automatic context caching. Gemini 3 Flash Preview is optimized for users who want strong reasoning and agentic behavior without the cost or latency of full scale frontier models.

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OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free)

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free)

by OpenAI

131.07K tokens

5

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

by Google

1.05M tokens

6

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash

by Google

1.05M tokens

7

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

by Anthropic

1M tokens

8

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash

by DeepSeek

1.05M tokens

9

Owl Alpha

Owl Alpha

by OpenRouter

1.05M tokens