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Best AI for Travel Planning

Constraint planning is the transferable part: a meal from seven pantry items, a multi-course build, an explanation retuned per listener.

Updated Jun 2026·3 challenges·20 models

How Travel Planning rankings are computed

20 models tested across 3 travel planning challenges.Composite score: 30% Rival Index, 20% task coverage, 20% challenge-scoped duel performance, 15% recency, 15% tier. Deduplicated by product line. GLM 5.3 Prime leads at 76.1/100. Drawn from Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference votes.

Rival’s pick·#8 Rival Index·Google flagship

Too close to call
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle AINeck and neck with GLM 5.3 Prime. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview gets the nod on blind votes.

Composite scores combine task evidence, Rival Index, recency, and model tier. Rival’s pick is a separate editorial recommendation. How ranking works

  1. Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle AI$2.00·$12.00Input $2.00 · output $12.00, per 1M tokens
    #276Composite
  2. GLM 5.3 PrimeZ.ai$2.80·$8.80Input $2.80 · output $8.80, per 1M tokens
    #176Composite
  3. Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle AI$0.75·$3.75Input $0.75 · output $3.75, per 1M tokens
    #374Composite

Head-to-head

  • GLM 5.3 PrimevsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview
  • GLM 5.3 PrimevsGemini 3.8 Flash
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewvsGemini 3.8 Flash

What the top three actually wrote

Opening lines from 6 answers across every prompt behind this ranking. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

GLM 5.3 Prime1,192 words
The Software Engineer You've probably got a mental model of "predict the next token" as something like autocomplete on your phone — a lookup table with good caching. That intuition is wrong in an interesting way.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash982 words
To the Experienced Software Engineer Think of a Large Language Model not as a chatty mind, but as a lossy, compiled runtime built from hundreds of terabytes of unstructured execution traces (human text and code). When you write a program, you define explicit state transitions, control flow, and data structures.
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

GLM 5.3 Prime212 words
Golden Comfort Garlic Butter Pasta A cozy, restaurant-worthy dish made from everyday pantry staples! Ingredients (7 total) Spaghetti (or any pasta) Butter Garlic (3–4 cloves) Olive oil Parmesan cheese (grated) Red pepper flakes Salt Instructions Boil the pasta – Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview318 words
Here is a savory, flavor-packed recipe that relies entirely on staple ingredients you likely already have sitting in your cupboards. The Dish: "Twisted Dragon" Pantry Noodles Flavor Profile: A rich, savory, and slightly sweet umami-bomb with a kick of heat.
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Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview1,127 words
Dish Title: Symbiosis: The Pine & The Pearl Conceptual Narrative: Symbiosis is a culinary exploration of the ecotone—the transitional space where the ancient, damp coniferous forest meets the crashing, briny ocean.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash1,246 words
Conceptual Narrative: The Pelagic Boreal This dish is an intellectual and sensory exploration of the boundary where the sub-arctic boreal forest collapses into the frigid North Pacific shelf.
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Full rankings

20 models
#ModelCoverageIndex
  • 4GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI
    3/3
    $0.10·$0.50Input $0.10 · output $0.50, per 1M tokens73
  • 5Claude Fable 5Anthropic
    3/3
    #13$10.00·$50.00Input $10.00 · output $50.00, per 1M tokens71
  • 6Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
    3/3
    $2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens71
  • 7GPT OSS 120BOpenAI
    3/3
    #132$0.18·$0.80Input $0.18 · output $0.80, per 1M tokens70
  • 8DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
    3/3
    $0.15·$0.60Input $0.15 · output $0.60, per 1M tokens70
  • 9InklingThinking Machines
    3/3
    #14$1.00·$4.05Input $1.00 · output $4.05, per 1M tokens69
  • 10Mistral Large 4Mistral AI
    3/3
    $0.68·$2.09Input $0.68 · output $2.09, per 1M tokens66
  • 11Grok 4.7xAI
    3/3
    $1.60·$4.80Input $1.60 · output $4.80, per 1M tokens65
  • 12Kimi K3Moonshot AI
    3/3
    #52$3.00·$15.00Input $3.00 · output $15.00, per 1M tokens65
  • 13GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
    3/3
    #158$5.00·$30.00Input $5.00 · output $30.00, per 1M tokens64
  • 14Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google AI
    3/3
    #39$1.25·$10.00Input $1.25 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens63
  • 15Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic
    3/3
    $0.10·$0.50Input $0.10 · output $0.50, per 1M tokens63
  • 16GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
    3/3
    #214$2.00·$10.00Input $2.00 · output $10.00, per 1M tokens63
  • 17Qwen3.7 MaxQwen
    3/3
    #32$2.50·$7.50Input $2.50 · output $7.50, per 1M tokens62
  • 18Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic
    3/3
    #232$4.00·$20.00Input $4.00 · output $20.00, per 1M tokens61
  • 19Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorMeta AI
    3/3
    #212$0.10·$0.20Input $0.10 · output $0.20, per 1M tokens61
  • 20GPT-4.1OpenAI
    3/3
    #78$2.00·$8.00Input $2.00 · output $8.00, per 1M tokens60

Challenges3

  • Explain Like I'm a Specific ExpertOne idea, explained to one named expert. Audience modeling.
  • Simple RecipeDinner from what is in the fridge. Practical or nothing.
  • Michelin Star Recipe DesignA tasting-menu dish, technique and story included.

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