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Best LLMs by Use Case in May 2025

My Top Picks for Research, Development, and Agentic Workflows.

My favorite LLM models right now per purpose:

  • General & informative deep research - GPT-o3
  • Development - Claude Sonnet 3.7
  • Agentic Workflows (instruction following & qualitative analysis) - Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • "Practical deep research" - Grok 3
  • Google Sheet formulas... yes it crushes - DeepSeek V3

I would love to hear what you're using that excels above the rest for a specific use