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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 26, 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
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #11New
GLM-4.5V (Reasoning)Intelligence · #45New
LFM2 1.2BIntelligence · #164New
Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BIntelligence · #152Up 26
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——
5NewNVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA43.2$0.000——
6▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
7▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant39.4$0.000——
8▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA34.1$0.000——
9▼ 1Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta33.1$0.23——
10▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta31.2$0.60——
11▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta28.9$3.5——
12▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure28.0$0.22——
13▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA26.1$0.16——
14—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta26.0$0.76——
15▼ 2Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle25.2$0.000——
16▼ 1Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle24.0$0.23——
17▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity22.2$3.5——
18▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta21.9$0.72——
19▼ 1Grok-1OpenxAI21.2$0.000——
20▼ 1Gemma 2 27BOpenGoogle20.1$0.80——
21▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta19.0$0.089——
22▲ 5Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure18.6$0.000——
23▼ 2Gemma 3n E4B InstructOpenGoogle18.5$0.025——
24▼ 1Gemma 3 4B InstructOpenGoogle17.6$0.025——
25▼ 3Granite 3.3 Instruct 8BOpenIBM17.6$0.085——
26▲ 3Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta17.5$0.16——
27▲ 6Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft Azure15.8$0.23——
28▼ 4Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta15.7$0.75——
29▼ 4Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle15.2$0.000——
30▼ 4Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure15.1$0.000——
31▼ 3Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta13.9$0.10——
32▲ 7Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta13.8$0.035——
33▼ 3Phi-3 Medium Instruct 14BOpenMicrosoft Azure12.7$0.30——
34NewLFM2 1.2BOpenLiquid AI10.5$0.000——
35▼ 4Gemma 3n E2B InstructOpenGoogle10.4$0.000——
36▼ 4Gemma 2 9BOpenGoogle10.2$0.20——
37▼ 3Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake10.0$0.000——
38▲ 3Llama 3.2 Instruct 1BOpenMeta9.5$0.053——
39▼ 4Llama 3 Instruct 8BOpenMeta9.5$0.058——
40—Gemma 3 1B InstructOpenGoogle8.5$0.000——
41▼ 5Llama 2 Chat 70BOpenMeta7.9$0.000——
42▼ 5Llama 2 Chat 13BOpenMeta7.9$0.000——
43▼ 5DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks7.7$0.000——
44▼ 3Llama 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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