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505 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 18, 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 R1 0528 (May '25)DeepSeek · #13 overall58.7
This week's changes
Mistral Medium 3.1Intelligence · #58New
Gemma 3 4B InstructIntelligence · #132Up 13
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)Intelligence · #32Up 7
GPT-4.1 miniIntelligence · #38Up 7
GPT-4.1 nanoIntelligence · #76Up 3
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—gpt-oss-120BOpenOpenAI61.3$0.26——
2—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant52.4$0.000——
3—gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI49.0$0.088——
4—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA46.4$0.90——
5—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
6—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant40.5$0.000——
7—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA34.1$0.000——
8—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta33.1$0.21——
9—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta31.2$0.59——
10—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta29.3$3.3——
11—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure28.0$0.22——
12—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA26.0$0.16——
13—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle25.2$0.000——
14—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta24.0$0.76——
15—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle24.0$0.063——
16—R1 1776OpenPerplexity22.2$3.5——
17—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta21.9$0.72——
18—Grok-1OpenxAI21.2$0.000——
19—Gemma 2 27BOpenGoogle20.1$0.80——
20—Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta19.0$0.078——
21—Gemma 3n E4B InstructOpenGoogle18.5$0.025——
22—Granite 3.3 Instruct 8BOpenIBM17.6$0.085——
23▲ 5Gemma 3 4B InstructOpenGoogle16.9$0.025——
24▼ 1Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta15.7$0.75——
25▼ 1Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle15.2$0.000——
26▼ 1Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure15.1$0.000——
27▼ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure14.2$0.000——
28▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta13.9$0.10——
29—Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta13.2$0.16——
30—Phi-3 Medium Instruct 14BOpenMicrosoft Azure12.7$0.30——
31—Gemma 3n E2B InstructOpenGoogle10.4$0.000——
32—Gemma 2 9BOpenGoogle10.2$0.20——
33—Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft Azure10.1$0.23——
34—Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake10.0$0.000——
35—Llama 3 Instruct 8BOpenMeta9.5$0.058——
36—Llama 2 Chat 70BOpenMeta7.9$0.000——
37—Llama 2 Chat 13BOpenMeta7.9$0.000——
38—DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks7.7$0.000——
39—Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta7.4$0.035——
40—Gemma 3 1B InstructOpenGoogle1.1$0.000——
41—Llama 3.2 Instruct 1BOpenMeta1.0$0.053——
41—Llama 65BOpenMeta1.0$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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