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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—Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants63.6$2.6——
2—DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant59.7$0.96——
3—DeepSeek R1 0528 (May '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant58.6$0.96——
4—GLM-4.5OpenZ AI56.1$0.99——
5—Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants53.9$0.75——
6—MiniMax M1 80kOpenMiniMax53.2$0.83——
7—GLM-4.5-AirOpenZ AI52.8$0.43——
8▲ 17Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants50.8$0.000——
9▼ 1Kimi K2OpenMoonshot AI48.6$1.1——
10▼ 1MiniMax M1 40kOpenMiniMax45.8$0.83——
11▼ 1Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BOpenAlibaba45.2$3.0——
12▼ 1Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant44.3$2.6——
13▼ 1DeepSeek V3 0324 (Mar '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant44.0$0.48——
14▼ 1GLM-4.5V (Reasoning)OpenZ AI42.9$0.85——
15▼ 1QwQ 32BOpenAlibaba41.9$0.63——
16▼ 1Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.8$0.66——
17▼ 1Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.3$1.3——
18▼ 1DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BOpenDeepSeek38.6$0.065——
19▼ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BOpenDeepSeek36.4$0.20——
20▼ 1Qwen3 Coder 30B A3BOpenAlibaba35.6$0.90——
21▼ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenDeepSeek34.5$0.77——
22▼ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BOpenDeepSeek33.3$0.88——
23▼ 1QwQ 32B-PreviewOpenAlibaba31.5$0.67——
24▼ 1Qwen2.5 Instruct 72BOpenAlibaba31.4$0.000——
25▼ 1MiniMax-Text-01OpenMiniMax29.1$0.43——
26▲ 1Qwen2.5 Instruct 32BOpenAlibaba26.1$0.15——
27▲ 1Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 32BOpenAlibaba25.0$0.15——
28▼ 2Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant24.7$0.40——
29—DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec '24)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant23.9$0.18——
30—DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BOpenDeepSeek22.8$0.040——
31—Qwen2 Instruct 72BOpenAlibaba21.1$0.000——
32—DeepSeek-Coder-V2OpenDeepSeek17.3$0.18——
33▲ 2Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant15.1$0.40——
34▼ 1Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 7BOpenAlibaba14.9$0.000——
35▼ 1Qwen1.5 Chat 110BOpenAlibaba13.2$0.000——
36—DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BOpenDeepSeek11.1$0.000——
37—DeepSeek-V2-ChatOpenDeepSeek11.1$0.18——
38—Qwen Chat 72BOpenAlibaba10.0$1.0——
39—DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite InstructOpenDeepSeek8.4$0.000——
40—DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat (V1)OpenDeepSeek7.9$0.000——
41—Qwen Chat 14BOpenAlibaba1.7$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

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