Model rankings

526 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

Week of September 8, 2025

October 20, 20252 changes October 13, 202518 changes October 6, 20257 changes September 29, 202516 changes September 22, 20258 changes September 15, 20251 change September 8, 202513 changes September 1, 20253 changes August 25, 202519 changes August 18, 20255 changes August 11, 202524 changes August 4, 20259 changes

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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 10, 2025

Smartest

GPT-5 (high)OpenAI66.7Intelligence

Best open model

gpt-oss-120BOpenAI57.9Intelligence

Best value

Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle624 pts/$Value

Best from China

Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba57.5Intelligence

Top three by Intelligence

1GPT-5 (high)OpenAI66.7

2Grok 4xAI65.3

3o3-proOpenAI65.3

Top three open models

1gpt-oss-120BOpenAI · #9 overall57.9

2Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba · #10 overall57.5

3DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #15 overall54.0

This week's changes

Grok Code Fast 1Intelligence · #22New

Qwen3 Max (Preview)Intelligence · #23New

Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #40New

Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #45New

Kimi K2 0905Intelligence · #19Up 12

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

SortIntelligence Value Speed Lowest price

Rank	Change	Model	Intelligence	Price $/M	Speed tok/s	First token
1	New	Qwen3 Max (Preview)ClosedAlibaba	48.6	$2.4	—	—
2	▼ 1	Qwen2.5 MaxClosedAlibaba	30.7	$2.8	—	—
3	▼ 1	Qwen2.5 TurboClosedAlibaba	19.1	$0.088	—	—
4	▼ 1	Yi-LargeClosed01.AI	13.4	$0.000	—	—

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026

64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi