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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 1, 2025

Smartest
GPT-5 (high)OpenAI69.0Intelligence
Best open model
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba63.6Intelligence
Best value
Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle739 pts/$Value
Best from China
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba63.6Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5 (high)OpenAI69.0
2Grok 4xAI67.5
3o3-proOpenAI67.5
Top three open models
1Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba · #8 overall63.6
2gpt-oss-120BOpenAI · #9 overall61.3
3DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #11 overall59.7
This week's changes
Exaone 4.0 1.2B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #81New
Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #26Up 59
Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #148Up 10
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—GPT-5 (high)ClosedOpenAI69.0$3.4——
2—GPT-5 (medium)ClosedOpenAI67.5$3.4——
3—Grok 4ClosedxAI67.5$6.0——
4—o3-proClosedOpenAI67.5$35——
5—o3ClosedOpenAI67.1$3.5——
6—GPT-5 mini (high)ClosedOpenAI65.4$0.69——
7—o4-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI65.1$1.9——
8—Gemini 2.5 ProClosedGoogle64.6$3.4——
9—GPT-5 mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI63.7$0.69——
10—GPT-5 (low)ClosedOpenAI63.4$3.4——
11—Claude 4.1 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic61.0$30——
12—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (Mar' 25)ClosedGoogle59.0$3.4——
13—Claude 4 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic58.8$6.0——
14—Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle58.4$0.85——
15—Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)ClosedxAI58.0$0.35——
16—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (May' 25)ClosedGoogle58.0$3.4——
17—o3-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI55.5$1.9——
18—Claude 4 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic55.3$30——
19—GPT-5 nano (high)ClosedOpenAI54.7$0.14——
20—GPT-5 nano (medium)ClosedOpenAI53.8$0.14——
21—o3-miniClosedOpenAI52.7$1.9——
22—o1ClosedOpenAI51.7$26——
23—Sonar Reasoning ProClosedPerplexity50.7$0.000——
24—Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle50.2$0.99——
25—o1-previewClosedOpenAI49.3$29——
26—Claude 4.1 OpusClosedAnthropic49.0$30——
27—Gemini 2.5 FlashClosedGoogle47.3$0.85——
28—Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle47.3$0.18——
29—Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic47.0$6.0——
30—GPT-4.1ClosedOpenAI46.8$3.5——
31—Claude 4 OpusClosedAnthropic46.6$30——
32—GPT-5 mini (minimal)ClosedOpenAI46.3$0.69——
33—Claude 4 SonnetClosedAnthropic45.7$6.0——
34—Grok 3 Reasoning BetaClosedxAI45.6$0.000——
34—o1-proClosedOpenAI45.6$263——
36—GPT-4.1 miniClosedOpenAI45.6$0.70——
37—GPT-5 (minimal)ClosedOpenAI43.8$3.4——
38—Solar Pro 2 (Reasoning)ClosedUpstage43.3$0.50——
39—o1-miniClosedOpenAI43.3$1.9——
40—GPT-4.5 (Preview)ClosedOpenAI42.4$0.000——
41—Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Jan '25)ClosedGoogle41.7$0.000——
42—Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)ClosedUpstage40.1$0.000——
43—Grok 3ClosedxAI39.9$6.0——
44—GPT-4o (March 2025, chatgpt-4o-latest)ClosedOpenAI39.5$7.5——
45—Mistral Medium 3ClosedMistral38.6$0.80——
46—Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental (Feb '25)ClosedGoogle38.4$0.000——
47—Sonar ReasoningClosedPerplexity38.0$2.0——
48—Mistral Medium 3.1ClosedMistral38.0$0.80——
49—Gemini 2.5 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle38.0$0.26——
50—Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb '25)ClosedGoogle37.8$0.18——

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

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Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.